Man, I want to work in Nokia’s skunkworks! If their latest mobile phones they’ve just announced are anything to go by, their prototypes must seriously rock. Fresh on the heels of the Nokia N92 mobile TV phone, Nokia’s latest announcement is the new Nokia N80 Multimedia phone, the first ever handset to enable seamless home media networking between compatible TVs, audio systems and PCs, apparently.

So what does it do? Well, according to Nokia:

“With simple to use yet advanced UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) technology, the pioneering Nokia N80 can be used to tap into the digital home network, acting almost as a remote control, enabling secure and convenient access to compatible PCs, audio equipment and TVs. Consequently, images and video stored on the Nokia N80 or a compatible PC can be viewed wirelessly on the living room TV, while listening to music stored on the device through the living room audio system. Printing is now faster too, as Nokia N80 users can print wirelessly to any compatible UPnP-enabled home printer or printing kiosk.”

Nokia-waffle aside, it’s key multimedia and connectivity features are mind blowing:

• 3 megapixel camera with capture key for fast and stable camera activation
• CIF video capture with inbuilt video stabilization
• Internal memory of up to 40 MB, which can be further expanded with a hot swap miniSD card of up to 2 GB
• Quad-band, supporting 3G (WCDMA 1900 or 2100), WLAN, EDGE and four GSM bands (850/900/1800/1900), enabling broadband access from virtually anywhere on the planet
• Supports the new Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map, featuring a semi-transparent zoomed-out overall view of the web page

More details after the jump

Fulle details of the Nokia N80 Multimedia phone

The new Nokia N80 supports the new Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map, featuring a semi-transparent zoomed-out overall view of the web page, enabling users to intuitively navigate to all corners as well as see the web site as it was originally designed. With the experience further heightened by the device’s superior high definition display (352 x 416 pixels, up to 262,144 colors), which incorporates 90% more pixels than QVGA displays commonly found on smartphones and PDAs, the Nokia N80 also incorporates MPEG4 AVC decoding support for high quality video streaming.

Camera Phone features

In addition to incorporating a 3 megapixel camera with capture key for fast and stable camera activation, full-screen landscape capture utilizing the entire available high definition display, and a dedicated close-up mode switch, the Nokia N80 also features CIF video capture with inbuilt video stabilization. Moreover, the Nokia N80 incorporates large internal memory of up to 40 MB, which can be further expanded with a hot swap miniSD card of up to 2 GB, allowing users to store up to 1000 high quality images on the device.

Music Phone features

Supporting a wide range of digital music formats, the Nokia N80 boasts a digital music player as well as stereo FM radio and support for Visual Radio, which provides listeners with a richly interactive information channel, including information on the song and artist currently playing. Furthermore, thanks to the integrated UPnP technology, transferring music between the Nokia N80 and a compatible PC is easier than ever. Alternatively, users can transfer their favorite music via USB 2.0 by simply dragging and dropping from a compatible PC onto the device. As a result of its powerful music features, the Nokia N80 qualifies as a part of the Nokia XpressMusic device range. The XpressMusic feature brand makes it easy for consumers to identify Nokia products that provide a superior mobile music experience.

Connectivity features of the Nokia N80

Weighing only 134 grams, the compact yet feature-rich 3G multimedia device is packed with performance, providing fast internet access and convenient intuitive browsing as well as the possibility to send and receive emails at Wireless LAN (WLAN) speeds.

Nokia N80 is the first quadband handset designed to work on 3G (WCDMA 1900 or 2100), WLAN, EDGE and four GSM bands (850/900/1800/1900), enabling broadband access from virtually anywhere on the planet. Incorporating the latest productivity functions in addition to 3G and EDGE data connectivity, people can use the Nokia N80 at more than 136,000 public WLAN hotspots around the world to access the internet and send large emails or upload high quality images to an online service.

Multimedia Connectivity features of the Nokia N80

With simple to use yet advanced UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) technology, the pioneering Nokia N80 can be used to tap into the digital home network, acting almost as a remote control, enabling secure and convenient access to compatible PCs, audio equipment and TVs. Consequently, images and video stored on the Nokia N80 or a compatible PC can be viewed wirelessly on the living room TV, while listening to music stored on the device through the living room audio system. Printing is now faster too, as Nokia N80 users can print wirelessly to any compatible UPnP-enabled home printer or printing kiosk.

Verdict: not quite as sexy as the Nokia N92, but 3 megapixel camera, and amazing connectivity makes the nokia N80 a seriously cool mobile phone. And yes, I want one of these as well as the Nokia N92! Oh go on then, I’ll take the whole N-series, if you’ll let me Nokia?!

Nokia press release