With a brace of new media phones from Nokia we've been kept waiting for the appearance of the business model the Nokia N80, but fear not it's here now and ready for us to find out if it's all it's cracked up to be. Measuring 95 x 50 x 26mm and weighing a beefy 134 grams the Nokia N80 is a serious phone, it follows the slider design of recent fashion phones but adds a touch of real world application that should suit the business man or woman on the move.
When we consider what we want from a business class mobile our demands are a little different, long battery life and talk time tend to climb up the list while style and size slide down (but not that far). We also want to at least believe that we can email and stay "connected" wherever we are even if only 10% of the phones users actually use these connectivity features.
So how does the N80 score? It's bulky size and not inconsiderable weight need to be offset by real useable features to make it a worthy daily use phone. As a mobile it works well, the slide design is a more grown up version of that used on the Nokia 6280 we tested a few weeks back, it feels more positive and rugged but becomes more of a 2 handed operation to open. The screen looks great and the 262k colour effort glows with a great intensity making it easy to read no matter what the light conditions. The 352x416 pixel screen also boasts auto light sensing which works well and should help preserve battery life a little but it's unlikely that the screen will be the element of this phone that eats all the battery.
When we consider what we want from a business class mobile our demands are a little different, long battery life and talk time tend to climb up the list while style and size slide down (but not that far). We also want to at least believe that we can email and stay "connected" wherever we are even if only 10% of the phones users actually use these connectivity features.
So how does the N80 score? It's bulky size and not inconsiderable weight need to be offset by real useable features to make it a worthy daily use phone. As a mobile it works well, the slide design is a more grown up version of that used on the Nokia 6280 we tested a few weeks back, it feels more positive and rugged but becomes more of a 2 handed operation to open. The screen looks great and the 262k colour effort glows with a great intensity making it easy to read no matter what the light conditions. The 352x416 pixel screen also boasts auto light sensing which works well and should help preserve battery life a little but it's unlikely that the screen will be the element of this phone that eats all the battery.
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