Anybody had problems with the Nokia N80?

Question

I'm on my third phone now. Just want to know if it's just bad luck or wether they are all like mine

Answer 1

I have N80 for 4 months now. I am not sure what kind of problems you are referring to, but my N80 does have the following 2 annoying flaws:

1) The upper slider wiggles a little bit left and right. Even though it only wiggles like 1 millimeter left and right, it's quite annoying and the build quality could have been better.
2) The phone locks up occasionally. It is especially true when I use WiFi to browse pages. For instance, when I use the free J2ME-based Opera Mini to browse pages via WiFi, sometimes the WiFi connection gets dropped all of the sudden and the browser hangs. When I try to kill the app, all the apps that accesses the network stacks get locked up (e.g Network WiFi browser), the apps hang forever, and eventually the phone locks up.

You cannot do anything with the 1st problem as it is a hardware problem. And it seems to be a design flaw, since the next N-series slider phone, N95, features a slider mechanism that ensures this will not happen (by having the lower slider completely encapsulates the upper slider, see http://www.infosyncworld.com/mobility/nokia_n95.html for the pictures to see what I mean). The 2nd problem, on the other hand, can be solved by firmware updates. In fact Nokia provides a firmware update for N80:

http://www.symbian-freak.com/quides/firmware/logs/n80_new_firmware.htm

You can probably even do it yourself (I haven't tried though):

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/4374_N80_home_updates_now_a_go.php

Not sure if these are the problems you observe. But hope the links I provide are helpful to you!

Answer 2

No problem at all