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Nokia is working with Orb Networks to bundle the latter’s placshifting application, called Orb MyCasting, with the upcoming Internet Edition of the former company’s N80 smartphone, which is due to ship in November.

With the solution, users of the Web-enhanced version of the handset will be able to access their home photos, videos, music, and even television remotely. Orb MyCasting streams a person's own content from their home PC leveraging the smartphone's Web browser and media player. You can also remotely record TV programs using Orb's Digital Video Recorder function and then playback those recorded programs on the N80.

As previously noted, the N80 Internet Edition will also feature a range of additional Web-centric applications stored in a folder marked Internet. It basically adds this software bundle to the same hardware found in the original N80 model: A quad-band GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz) slider smartphone with 2.5 G EDGE and 3G WCDMA (UTMS) cellular data and Wi-Fi networking.

A wizard is designed to ease connecting to a wireless LAN, and the Internet edition adds the ability to make Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls with support for third-party applications and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

There also Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Go, an application that bundles together a number of services, including e-mail, search, photos, and address book and calendar. With it, for example, you can upload images taken with the N80's 3-megapixel Carl Zeiss-run camera to the popular photo-sharing site Flickr.

A new Download! App allows users to see what latest applications are available for their smartphone, as well as keep other selected applications current, according to Nokia. While the updated web browser features Min Map, which greatly enhances browsing the internet by promising to make pages look close to how PC web browsers display them.

Like the previous version, the Nokia N80 Internet Edition (and all recent Nokia smartphones for that matter) is built on the Symbian OS, version 9, and the Nokia S60 3rd Edition smartphone platform. It is likely that the N80 Internet Edition still supports the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) protocol to more easily connect to compatible TVs, audio systems and PCs.

N80 smartphones can be used to tap into a digital home network, acting almost as a remote control. Also, images and video stored on the N80 or a PC can be viewed wirelessly on the living room TV, while listening to music stored on the device through a stereo. Printing is supposed to be faster too, as the Nokia N80 allows users to print wirelessly to any compatible UPnP-enabled home printer or printing kiosk.

Like the earlier version, the Internet edition should have a high resolution 2.1 inch, 352 x 416 pixel 262,144 color display and incorporate a MPEG4 AVC decoding support for video streaming.

There's 40 MB of memory and a miniSD card additional storage. The Nokia N80 boasts a digital music player as well as stereo FM radio. And users can transfer data via USB 2.0 by dragging and dropping from a compatible PC onto the device.

The device measures 3.7 x 2 x 10.2 inches (95 x 50 x 260 millimeters) and weighs 4.7 ounces (134 grams).

The N80 Internet Edition will come in two colors: patina bronze and pearl black. Nokia hasn’t revealed pricing or carrier information yet.