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My friend has recently got a great deal on a Nokia N80 - Black for 5,000/- Rs ( 145 $). I was quite skeptical of this phone , not that its features are bad (to say its specs are outstanding even for todays standards) but the practicality of the phone is a doubt (like battery life & stability of the phone).

If I remember it right, N80 was one of the first N-Series phone to have a 3.2 MP camera, 3G / Wi-Fi and a high resolution screen. Here are some of my pointers on this phone. Even though this phone was released at a hefty price tag of Rs. 30000/- you can now find at some retail stores for 12,000/- rs.

• Its quite a “soap bar”, weighing a 135g with lots of plastic to shed if it wants to match Moto RIZR.

• Even though the screen size doesn’t look as big as a N95,it is quite fine at a whopping resolution of 352 x 416 pixels making the display a definite plus
• Nowadays I have found every Nokia to be a big speaker when it comes to music reproduction able to blast music with its incredibly loud sound, but the down side you can hear the speaker crackling at high pitches.
• Since its a Symbian 3rd edition smartphone , you can have all the Office functionality and you can buy / download and install 3rd party apps (there is a huge no. of them out there for your pickings)
• Multimedia wise it can play almost any format of file thrown at it thanks to included Real player or because of softwares like DivXPlayer, smart movie player etc.
• I have found almost most N-sereies smartphone image gallery takes a lot of time to open and this phone is also is the same boat . And the fancy animation makes it much more slower, i think.
• I have read that Symbian web browser is good, and using it confirmed it with lots of features and options.
• Connectivity is loaded with USB, Bluetooth, GPRS / EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi
• I think this phone had a faulty camera module because the camera preview screen had lots of lines all over the screen and the captured pic wasn’t that clear.
• The problem my friend reported was that, after actually disconnecting the phone from the PC (linked thru bluetooth as a gprs modem) the phone automatically restarts.

written by Vignesh

Howdy Techies !!! I think this month’s CockTail flavor is going to be Nokia. I have come across 2-3 Nokia phones for which i would like to post my thoughts. As usual I would like your comments / feedbacks to keep this CockTail flowing …..

My uncle has recently got a Nokia 2630. Even a year back a 100$ phone would have been a phone with a old faded color screen with nothing else to report but nowadays you can expect more from a 100$ phone, so here are my views on this phone,

• A decent sized 65K TFT color screen with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels.

• Nokia has also entered the ’slim’ bandwagon after Motorola’s success, even though this phone is not as svelte as a RAZR its quite thin at 9.9 mm and light in your pocket at 83 grams

• One of Nokia’s strength reception & call quality is excellent in this phone too. A decent phonebook with multiple no’s is also available at your disposal.

• Multimedia wise there is 11 MB memory to keep your pictures captured from the VGA camera, MP3 tunes/songs, 3GP video clips.

• User Interface is very easy to use & understand. Themes & wallpapers can be customized to suit your personality. MP3 files can be kept as your ringing tones.

• Connectivity features are excellent like USB, Bluetooth for file transfers / sync and for Internet there is GPRS & EDGE.

written by Vignesh