Nokia Does it again ! N80

I am a big fan of this finnish company, I prefer using their cellphones over anybody else. Having washed my hands on a Samsung, Ericsson, Sony, Motorola and a number of Nokia's I think I was made for Nokia, or they were made for me. The announcement this week from them made me get up and take notice (once again).

Nokia announced, the first UPnP enabled (Universal Plug and Play) smartphone. Announced side by side to the N80 is the N92 (TV Smartphone), and a Multimedia Oriented N71.

What is interesting in the N80 ?

At a paltry weight of 138 gms, and a footprint the size of a credit card, this is the first smartphone from nokia, that has 3G and Quad Band support, also throwing in EDGE for high speed data transfers for non 3G networks.

The UPnP support will allow the media (images, videos, songs) stored on the phone to be accessible via a media extender connected with your TV in your living room, without the need of any addons.

The N80 (also the N71, and N92), support the new Nokia browser with mini map, providing a semi transparent zoomed out overall view of the web pages.

The N80has 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.

And if you are wondering, yes the phone has Wifi access. It is slated for a launch in the first quarter of 2006, and may be priced around 500 Euros.

via [Infosyncworld]

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