Remember Neo receiving a parcel in his office in the first Matrix film? He opens it, finds the phone inside and then makes that 'Whoa!' look on his face when the device starts ringing. I didn't have Morpheus on the other end of the line, but I must have had a 'Whoa!' moment when I tried the new Nokia N80 slider handset.
Weighing only 134 grams, the N80 comes with a three-megapixel camera, integrated flash, digital zoom, video and MP3 player and is the first quadband handset, designed to work on 3G, EDGE, four GSM bands (850/900/1800/1900) and Wi-fi networks, which means broadband access from virtually anywhere on the planet. It offers Universal Plug and Play technology, so images and videos stored in the device can be displayed on a TV, while MP3 music can be played through a compatible audio system. Using a two-gigabyte miniSD card, you can store almost 1,000 images at up to 2,048 x 1,536 pixel resolution. Printing is easy, too. Just take the images off the miniSD card or connect the N80 to your printer via PictBridge or Bluetooth.
Nokia calls the N80 a 'multimedia computer'. At $5,288, I call it amazing. Whoa!