Display

In comparison to N70 and the first Nseries devices, one of the biggest modification applied to the N80 seem to be the display. The N80 TFT display has 352 × 416 pixels (like in the N90 model) and 256K colors. You can clearly see the difference and the N80 display is excellent - crisp and colorful. The N80 has been critisized for its short battery life and that is why one asks how much bigger is the power consumption for this better display? The N80 user interface uses the active display and has shortcuts to favorite applications and contains information about the network coverage, operator, battery status, date, time, radio channel etc.

Operating System

Nokia N80 runs on Series 60 user interface of third generation. I´m not 100 % shure, but I have a feeling the operating system works faster or at least as fast as the one I have on my N70 (Series 60 v2 Feature Pack 3). The people at gsmarena say that the N80 UI is generally faster and there is a performance increase in comparison to the previous 2nd generation S60 user interface.

Memory

The phone has 40 MB internal memory and a miniSD memory card slot (128 MB card comes along the sales package).

Music

Among the N80 applications you will find a new music player (same as Nokia 3250). The Music Player has an equalizer and supports playlists. The supported file formats are MP3, AAC, m4a, eAAC+ and WMA. The N80 also has a Real Player and a Flash player preinstalled. FM radio is also available.The headphones that come with the sales package aren´t anything special and have a quite bad audio quality. I highly recommend using some third party headphones (N80 bundles a 3.5mm audio jack adaptor).