Series 80 is a user interface developed by Nokia for the communicator product family. Its development has been ended, because currently Nokia only developes the S60 user interface.

Series 80's earlier name was "Crystal." Its description was "Keyboard-based information-centric mobile phones." The first S80 based mobile phone was in the year 2001 launched Nokia 9210 Communicator, which also had the first open version of Symbian OS.

Series 80 devices differ a lot from other mobile phones: each one of them have e.g.

• a QWERTY keyboard
• an opening cover
• a screen resolution of 640 x 200 pixels
• business-oriented software
• a support for SSL/TSL.

There are only two versions of Series 80 published:

Series 80 1st Edition (S80 v1.0)

Series 80 2nd Edition (S80 v2.0)

The programs written for S80 1st Edition can be run on S80 2nd Edition devices, but the compatibility isn't guaranteed. For example, S80 1st Edition's Rayman game can be run on 2nd Edition devices, but then the colours are messed up.

If you want to see different user interface versions of S80, click this link (opens in a new window). The page has screenshots of both S80 versions.

Series 80 v1.0:

ROM drive Z:

Contains the operating system's and user interface's files. It's on a Flash memory chip in "read only" form, and it can only be edited during the firmware update.

User drive C:

This drive can be used as a storage area of the user's own files; the user can save his files and install applications here, and it won't empty although the device gets switched off.

User drive D:

This drive is a memory card, which can be attached into the device. Like the C: drive, it can be used as the user's own storage, and it won't lose its data although it wouldn't get any power.

Program memory - RAM

This is a memory for running programs. For example when the user opens an image file, the image and the image viewer applications gets loaded onto this memory. When the device is switched off, this memory gets empty. So basically this memory works like the PC's RAM memory.

Series 80 v2.0:

The memory structure doesn't differ from the S80 v1.0 in any way.

There is only a handful of devices manufactured for Series 80, and it's very likely that there won't be any more. Below is a table of devices that use Series 80.

- Series 80 has the best support for OPL.

- Nokia 9290 is a Nokia 9210 designed for the United States market.

- Nokia 9210 can be used to view video, but the video specifications must be:

- resolution 160 x 96 pixels (Real Player doubles this)

- frame frequency of 7,5 frames per second

- bitrate of 80 kbps

- The most common faults in Series 80 devices are screen cable defects and hinge breakages.

- In Series 80 devices a screenshot utility is built-in: it can be taken at any time by pressing the buttons CTRL, SHIFT, CHR and S simultaneously