Nokia N80ie Reviewer's Comments
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Nokia added Internet features to the N80 to create the N80ie, which is a pretty powerful multimedia cell phone. This phone is Wi-Fi capable and with a few little tweaks is may have been able to break into the top three for one of the best multimedia cell phones.
Nokia N80ie Screenshots. Click to Enlarge
Mulitmedia Features:
The Nokia N80ie is a great multimedia cell phone, if the screen was a bit larger and if we could figure out how to get album art to display, it could be one of the best media phones on the market.
It has a 3 mega pixel camera, which is better than all the phones we reviewed except for the Nokia N95. The camera also has five different resolutions for still shots and two for video. It also has a variety of scene setting like auto, landscape, sports and candlelight and numerous adjustments such as contrast, sharpness, exposure compensation and video stabilization. Nokia has also set up some good photo sharing features such as the ability to order prints from the phone. For video it uses RealPlayer technology and supports 3GPP & MPEG4 AVC streaming.
In terms of music, it has a stereo music player that can play MP3, AAC, M4A, eAAC and WMA music file formats and it can support drag and drop file moving between the phone and a PC. It can also play FM radio.
Voice/ Text Features:
This phone has above average voice features with the exception that it is a quad band phone but it does not support 3G. However, it includes many expected phone features like conference calling, speakerphone and voice dialing. In relation to text messaging it can send SMS and MMS text messages.
Internet Features:
With a name like Nokia N80 Internet Edition, you would think it has good Internet technology, and it does. It can connect by Wi-Fi, EDGE and Bluetooth and has the ability to display full web pages.
You can check your regular email accounts like those used by Yahoo, Google and MSN as well as other POP3/ IMAP accounts. Although this phone has great connection ability we could not conclude that it has push email support, so you may have to log on to retrieve your email with this cell phone.
Productivity/ Lifestyle Tools:
This phone could almost wander into the smartphone arena a fit right in. It has all the PIM tools you could want like a calendar. To make your phone more functional it can support third party software; Nokia even offers compatible software on their site such as barcode and Adobe readers, Anti-Virus software, Quickoffice document viewers, podcasting software and a WLAN wizard. The phone also supports a wireless keyboard (sold separately) for typing out long emails with ease. This phone uses Symbian OS version 9.1 and there are many cell phone applications designed to run with Symbian operating systems.
Technical Specifications:
We found this computer to be a bit bulky, at over an inch thick and nearly five ounces. But otherwise, it is shorter and narrower than most phones. The battery time on this phone is only three hours of regular use, which is typical for Nokia phones, but not very convenient. This phone does not include much internal memory but you can boost the phone up to 2GB with a Mini SD card and it is designed to be hot swappable if you would like to use multiple cards.
Wow Score:
Not much wow with this phone, it looks like a typical phone, but it is a quite capable multimedia phone which earns it a bit of wow.
Summary:
This phone surprised us, we had to take a second look and the more we looked the more we found that we liked. From what we have found this phone is sold as unlocked, so if you need this option this may be a phone to look into.
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