3-Megapixel Nokia N80 smartphone hooks into digital home

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	3-Megapixel Nokia N80 smartphone hooks into digital home	By Jørgen Sundgot, 2 November 2005

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With support for the UPnP protocol and Wi-Fi 802.11g, the Nokia N80 squares its sights on the digital home. Also on board: a 3 Megapixel camera, music player 3G and more.

Nokia N80 review summary

Nokia N80

Score: 76% When: May 2006 Worth: €675

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Read the full article » Starting off on a high note, the Nokia N80 camera phone lines up a brilliant high-resolution screen and 3 Megapixel-pushing camera only to put its foot in its mouth seconds later through the absence of an autofocus, which hampers its ability to produce quality stills with predictive consistency. Although it also includes the most extensive line-up of printing, publishing and image management services of any camera phone to date, it still falls marginally short of its N90 predecessor - yet retains broader overall appeal due to its music, business and wireless photo streaming functionality, rendering it a superb 3G phone. Read the full article »

Nokia N80 launch coverage

Nokia today introduced the maker's first UPnP-enabled smartphone, the Nokia N80, at its annual Mobility Conference in Barcelona. Announced alongside the N92 TV smartphone and multimedia-oriented N71, the N80 takes aim at the digital home with its support for the UPnP protocol which enables simplified exchange of media between devices in a home network - to which the smartphone will connect by means of high-speed Wi-Fi 802.11g.

Weighing a mere 134 g and with a footprint nearly as small as a credit card, the N80 is also Nokia's first smartphone to simultaneously offer 3G and quad-band GSM, also throwing in EDGE for high-speed data transfers in areas where 3G is not an option.

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Its support for UPnP will enable the N80 to carry out a variety of tasks, such as having images, video and music stored on the device be accessed directly from a media extender connected to a living room TV, one of the most recent examples of which is the Acer Media Gateway MG-3001P. Also, the UPnP protocol offers support for printing, offering a longer-range alternative to Bluetooth printing - which also remains present courtesy of the N80's Bluetooth support.

As with the Nokia N92, the N80 also supports the new Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map, providing a semi-transparent zoomed-out overall view of web pages for simplified navigation. This runs in tandem with the high-resolution, 2.1-inch display of the device, which features the 325 x 416 resolution first pioneered in Nokia's N90 imaging smartphone - and a 262K colour depth.

What the N80 has that the N90 doesn't, however, is a 3 Megapixel camera which outperforms that of the N90 by a full Megapixel. The N80 may not have the Carl Zeiss lens and autofocus of the N90, yet is able to record stills as well as video at CIF resolution, storing content either to the 40 MB of non-volatile onboard memory or miniSD memory expansion cards which can be had in capacities of up to 2 GB at the time of writing.

Also benefiting from miniSD cards is the music player of the N80, which supports MP3 and WMA formats as well as AAC. Rounding out the feature list is a stereo FM radio with Nokia's Visual Radio client present, as well as USB 2.0 for high-speed wired data transfers and the presence of a front-mounted 0.3 MP camera to enable video calls.

Price and availability

The Nokia N80 is slated for commercial availability in Europe in the first quarter of 2006 with an estimated retail price of €500 EUR.