How To: Make your Nokia N80 a Nokia N80 Internet Edition
By Stefan Constantinescu on Thursday, January 4th, 2007 at 1:41 AM PST In Devices
It kills me to have to link you to this. Why should users have to hack their phone in such a fashion just to get the latest and greatest features their device is capable of?! I loathe Nokia (NYSE: NOK) does this, wouldn’t you if you knew a better phone was just a software update away?
Full instructions at The Nokia Cell Phone Blog:
My Nokia N80 has been doing some wacky things lately (random reboots, slow image/video loading, out of memory errors, etc) so I decided to do some research on some firmware upgrades.
The Nokia N80 Mobile Blog has a very well done article on how to update your precious N80 to 4.0623.0.41. However, you can go one step further: install the Nokia N80 Internet Edition firmware on your (stock) N80!
You’ll need to follow the directions on this page, as well as download most of the fairly large files involved in such an undertaking: Link here.
You’ll also need to download the correct region Internet Edition firmware to be flashed. These were uploaded by Mr. Nokia N80 Mobile Blog Guy (I think), so don’t blame me if they go down.
European Firmware
European Firmware Update
APAC (Asia-Pacific Region Firmware)What’s the benefit of the Internet Edition over the standard N80 firmware? Mainly VoIP. I believe VoIP software doesn’t function properly on stock N80’s, but it seems to work very well on the Internet Edition firmwares. VoIP basically lets you utilize the WLAN connection to make free calls with a very slight decrease in call quality.
I still have yet to try this, but it seems from the comments that there are enough happy users to give it a go. I plan to at least.
I totally agree. I bought my N73 on 18th November, and repeatedly asked the dealer (it was a Nokia ‘Priority Dealer’ retail store) when they’d release the music/internet edition in India-he could not give a sure date.
The music edition has launched here around 2 weeks back, no mention yet of the internet edition.
Here’s a similar article about changing N73 to Internet edition (which includes whatever’s there in music edition)
http://thenokiablog.com/2006/12/08/how-to-update-nokia-n73-firmware-to-internet-edition/
Yea Rex, I linked to that a long time ago: http://www.ringnokia.com/2006/12/how_to_make_you.html
Thanks for sharing tho!