Nokia N80
The N80 is one of my favorite device in the Nokia offering and I don't doubt it will sell quite well. It has a good balanced between feature, look and form-factor. MobileBurn has just posted a complete review of this cool device.
They conclude: Nokia's N80 is a truly amazing mobile phone that has a couple of flaws - one of them quite serious. While the lack of a good voice dialing system is a shame, and the lack of a functional automatic keylock is annoying, it is the battery life issue that is going to be the potential deal breaker for many people. The brilliant features like WiFi, the web browser, the camera, and the music player will be of no use if the phone has no power. So if you are a heavy voice user, especially one that spends a lot of time in or travels through poor reception areas, the N80 probably won't cut it for you. But if you are more like me, where a charger is nearly always close by and the signal is always strong, you will be awed by the N80 - and forgive it its poor battery life.
Read the full review of the Nokia N80 on their web site.
Nokia E61
The Nokia E61 is a little bit stranger. As far as I am concerned, I do not really like the form factor - won't fit in my pocket - and I wouldn't probably give up my 9300 for it.
Rafe's opinion on it: You know the most surprising thing about the E61? Most of the weight is at the top of the handset. And while that might seem like a bad thing, the designers of the hardware have made it work. It sits nicely in one hand
The E61 is a strange smartphone to sum up. It wants to do so many things, and on the whole it manages to do them well. It's quite clearly in the “first-gen” category, and a lot of work needs to be done to make the S60 interface work for the user with the large screen and the keyboard - there are times where the device was not letting me do what I wanted it to do.
The E61 is everything a power-user of PDA's is looking for - but it's a smartphone, not a computer. Less a wolf in sheep's clothing, but a very aggressive Ram in ewe's clothing. If Nokia can tame a second generation version, or look at a serious firmware update, then the E61 would be ready to go mainstream. As it is, a lot of people are going to label it the next best thing - but it's not quite there yet. I look forward to updates to S60, but in the meantime I can live with the quirks. The E61 is, at the moment, the one for me.
Read his full Nokia E61 review on AAS.
