The Nokia N80 was introduced in November of 2005. Kent German from CNET reviews the Nokia N80 and writes about camera, “The N80’s camera captures video with sound in MP4 or 3GP formats with up to 5X zoom. You get a choice of automatic and night shooting modes, as well as High, Normal, and Low quality settings. Most of the aforementioned customization features are also available in video mode. Once you’re done with your shots, you can touch them up with the preloaded image and video editors. For photos, you can add clip art or text and reduce red-eye, while you can cut audio, trim clips for multimedia messages, and more for videos. Also, the photo-sharing options on the N80 are much more robust than those of other cell phones. In addition to being able to e-mail or save your images, you can use Nokia’s Xpress Solutions to print photos, upload them to the Web, or transfer them to other devices.”

Mobile-Review also talks about the Nokia N80 camera, “As the camera objective is not closed with anything, you can easily mark it. Traditionally for Nokia’s smartphones the camera settings are very rich. Several shooting modes are available in usual mode - Automatic, User, Portrait, Landscape, Sport, Night Landscape (no flash), Night Portrait (flash). White balance settings are AWB, Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent. An Exposure Value ranges from -2 to +2. Norma, Sepia, B&W, Negative are available color effects. Three grades are available for image sharpness - Hard, Normal, Soft. You can take a series of photos with the speed from 3 fps to one frame per 15 minutes; you can place the phone on its side and watch the things in the office, for instance. Timer values are 2, 10 or 20 seconds. And finally you cannot switch off the shutter sound.”

All About Symbian reviews the Nokia N80 and writes about design, “The N80 is pleasing to the eye and is finished in a mixture of chrome and metal, similar in feel and looks to the N70, which gives the whole device a substantial feel. The N80 will be available in two versions – silver and black, both are constructed of similar materials, but the black version has the advantage of hiding smudges and fingerprints more than the silver version.”

MobileBurn notes, “When closed, the N80’s 5-way d-pad and main controls are still accessible. Below the normal softkeys and call keys you will find a dedicated menu key, a multimedia menu key, an edit key, and a C key. The multimedia key menu is simply an app that you can configure to give quick access to N80 functions by using d-pad direction shortcuts, just as always was the case before Nokia introduced the Active Standby screen. You don’t have to limit yourself to multimedia functions - in spite of its name, it works for anything. Long-pressing the key from the standby screen will load the music player by default. Similarly, long pressing the camera shutter button on the right side of the device will load the camera. The camera itself is located on the back, with a flash and macro mode slider, and a memory card slot is located on the left side of the N80. The power button and infrared port are located on the top, and the mini power port, the same as used on the N90 and 770, and pop-port connector are located on the bottom.”