The Series 80 was a short-lived mobile software platform for enterprise and professional level mobile phones made by Nokia

Nokia

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. It uses the Symbian OS. Common physical properties to this Symbian OS user interface type is a screen resolution of 640×200 pixels and a full QWERTY keyboard.

Features

• Support for editing popular office documents
• Full QWERTY
  QWERTY
  QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the...
  
   keyboard
• Integrated mouse for navigation
• SSL/TLS
  Transport Layer Security
  Transport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer , are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet...
  
   support
• Full web browser based on Opera
  Opera (web browser)
  Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent,...
  
  
• VPN support

Devices

• Nokia 9210
  Nokia 9210
  The Nokia 9210 Communicator is a third generation Communicator series smartphone produced by Nokia, introduced November 21, 2000 . It greatly improved on the second generation Nokia 9110 Communicator, providing colour main screen, changing to Symbian OS platform and ARM processor...
  
   (S80 v1.0)
• Nokia 9210i (S80 v1.0)
• Nokia 9290 (S80 v1.0)
• Nokia 9300
  Nokia 9300
  The Nokia 9300 is a Nokia Series 80 Symbian Smartphone introduced in 2005. It is used as a normal though bulky mobile phone in closed mode, when it is flipped open it can be used like a very small notebook computer with a 640×200 screen...
  
   (S80 v2.0)
• Nokia 9300i (S80 v2.0)

Future of Series 80

Nokia does not use the Series 80 platform in its latest Communicator mobile phone, the Nokia E90. Series 80 used the large size of the Communicator screens to best effect, but needed separate development for a relatively small market. The operating system on the E90 is closely related to that used on phones with smaller screens, and does not take full advantage of the large screen.

Game emulators for S80 phones

• Doom emulator for S80
• SCUMM emulator for S80 (allows you to play games like Monkey Island, etc.)
• Symbian EMU games for Turkish

External links

• Nokia - Series 80 Platform