A positive thing was that it accepted my pin code very fast, and the UI came right up and it was usable from the second I pressed OK. On first start-up you get the default Nokia Theme. When you first go into the contact list, the phone's asks you whether you want to copy your contacts from your SIM card to the phone. After completing everything I started to wonder around with the Contact Groups where I was a little disappointed when I didn't find any predefined groups, so I had to make them my self.

The Nokia N80 was presented by Nokia not as a simple phone, but as a multimedia platform capable of never met before multimedia features. I have to agree with this totally. To start off the phone has a 3MP camera with normal and macro modes possible and also 20x digital zoom. The camera has a separate button on the side of the phone, which starts the camera and also makes the photo while in camera mode. But don't sell your digital camera yet because the quality is still not the same as one made with a normal camera. The second impressive multimedia feature is the media player which comes with the phone. Finally Nokia made such a media player which searches for music files within directories as well. This phone can be turned into an mp3 player with an ease since it supports hot-swappable miniSD memory cards up to 2 Gb, which means almost 500 mp3 on your phone and at your finger tips. But you will have to buy a separate card since Nokia only ships 128 Mb cards within the package. Also the loudspeakers which are embedded in the phone are pretty loud so if you're in the office or just at home relaxing you can listen to high quality music without a headset right off your phone. The third feature which is not that new in latest Nokia phones is the Visual Radio. I can't say much about it because the service is unavailable for me to test. The forth and most interesting multimedia feature allows you to view made pictures as Slide shows in full screen view but not only. If you have a compatible device you can view the photos in real time via Bluetooth on your TV set as well, pretty neat.

The star feature of the phone is however the implemented WiFi chip. The WiFi is only activated when it is needed so it doesn't consume too much battery. So when browsing the net or simply checking your emails from your phone, you can select from which Internet connection profiles to use (called Access Points, AP for short.) However there is a big downside with these profiles. If you are connecting to a secured, protected network then you will need to memorize the access key since until this point I haven't found a possibility to store the key within the AP profile. Pretty annoying but for free Internet connection on my phone it is not a biggie to remember another password. Also you can select a Home Network which is basically an AP profile you select for default, on which if you connect your phone's internal file memory, and memory card are shared. So you can upload and download files from your phone via WiFi without needing to connect the phone to your PC. All Internet connections from either a browser or by a third party application can be routed through WiFi, which is a big plus for this phone. Hopefully soon VoIP programs like Skype will appear for Symbian phones as well will basically mean free calls if you are in a WiFi hot spot from your phone. But can't forget to mention that the phone is a 3G/UMTS phone so video calls are possible with the phone. The phone is equipped with a frontal camera with 640x480 resolution mainly used for video calls or self portraits. Making a video call is a bit hard with the phone, though. Since after selecting the contact you want to call you have to go to the Options and select Video call instead of Voice call. But to compensate this Nokia allowed you to set a different ring tone for Video calls.

The package I received contained several items which to be honest surprised me. Besides the standard content (phone, battery, charger, manual) you also get: a charger adapter (for old type chargers), a USB cable, a pop-port to jack converter, a headset, the 128Mb miniSD card, a leather wrist strap, a leather cleaning cloth, and a CD containing the necessary software for your PC.

Sticker shock or not, I love my Nokia N80!