Would you buy

I have to agree - the phone does have several major weaknesses - the battery being the main one. 3G phones are notoriously poor on battery performance. However, I think this is down to the fact that the 3G network is still in it's infancy (at least here in the UK ) and so the phones have to transeive at higher levels. I remember the first GSM phones had much the same problem in the early days. Obviously battery technology has also advanced and will continue to do so.
The initial difficulties with the early firmware were a pain. I put my last N80 in 'offline' profile only to find that it would'nt come out of it. Orange took nearly a week to scratch their heads about it but replaced it with a replacement handset and with the new firmware. It still occasionally reboots - but I think it does that because it gets into a loop or a deadend and decides a reboot is the only answer. (With Pocket PC it simply locks up and you have to reboot it yourself.)
It's strange that Nokia don't quote a maximum size for the SD card whereas all the web sites previewing the phone quoted 2GB. Orange say I'm lucky to be able to use my 1GB card - they seem to think the supplied 128MB card is the maximum.
The display is a stunner. More and more high definition content is becoming available to make best use of it. I just keep looking at the screen in awe - perhaps that's the reason the battery doesn't last.
Would I buy another - I think the answer would be 'yes' - because there is at present no other equilavent out there. Perhaps by the time my contract comes up for renewal the Sony P990 will be well and truely established.

Battery life isnt really an issue for me because I've always charged my phones every night. What bugs me is the poor signal compared with my last three Nokia phones

Yes i would buy another N80.

Battery life, i did have a problem up until this week when i did 2 things.

First off, i saw a thread on here that said drain your battery, turn your phone off and put it on charge for 16 hours, (repeat). I have done this and now i get 3 days out of my phone not 1 day. (thats about 2 hour on the phone, 40-50 texts and the odd picture).

At the same time just incase the above did not work i ordered the desktop charger stand and a second battery. Now the second battery sits in my wallet (its that thin and small!) and i do not even know its there, so if i was to use my phone extreamly excessivly one day i do have more power at hand.

So the reason for my very poor battery life, me! not charging it properlly when i got the phone. So now i use its great features and get OK battery life!

I love the phone and would buy another one defo!

I haven't recieved mine yet, but from what I gathered, you need to check the following to get the most out of bat life...

- Firmaware update
- First couple of recharges, drain the battery fully, charge 16h, let drain, etc (will it charge so long, really? On or OFF? I reckon off to speed up and be more efficient?)
- Turn 3G off
- Turn off wifi
- dont let app hang in mem (I read symbian will not drain faster, somehow I dont get that concept. if its loaded in mem, the phone need voltage on memory to keep it there...?)

any more tricks?

There is another thread with this issue, why not post up a sticky with a these recommendations so as to avoid every new n80 user from opening reudundant threads? There are only two up. One on SD cards would also be nice.

giddy-up! :burnout:

yidakee wrote:
- dont let app hang in mem (I read symbian will not drain faster, somehow I dont get that concept. if its loaded in mem, the phone need voltage on memory to keep it there...?)

When the phone is switched on, the RAM chip is powered and it doesn't matter how much data is stored in it, it will always use the same amount of power. So letting applications running in the background doesn't cause the battery to drain faster *as long as the background applications just sit there doing nothing*. If the background application keeps doing some processing while in the background (for example, an MP3 player playing music, a countdown timer counting or an email client checking new emails every few minutes), then it will obviously drain your battery faster to let them running rather than closing them.

tomnufc wrote:Battery life isnt really an issue for me because I've always charged my phones every night. What bugs me is the poor signal compared with my last three Nokia phones

Totally agree the reception on these phones compared to earlier Nokia's is very poor, I would never buy another one.

TBH, I didn't mention the reception as I had just put it down to O2. So not to sure if it is a combination of both?

It can't be a combination of both, I've used the same O2 PAYG sim card in my last three Nokia phones and they've all had better signal than the N80. It's constantly dropping signal in area's my 6230i would have 2 or 3 bars.

tomnufc wrote:It can't be a combination of both, I've used the same O2 PAYG sim card in my last three Nokia phones and they've all had better signal than the N80. It's constantly dropping signal in area's my 6230i would have 2 or 3 bars.

Thats because the 6230i is 2G. Running N80 in GSM mode will replicate the same signals as 6230i

I am running my N80 in GSM mode, it's still the same, three bars one second, down to one or none the next, then back up to three. Also it won't get a signal in poor reception areas where my 6230i would get a steady one bar