Nokia N81

The Nokia N81 is a 3G phone which comes with a digital camera feature, music player, a 2.4-inch high resolution display and comes with two different colours, which are graphite grey and cobalt blue coloured casing. It comes with a 2 megapixels camera. The N81 is also equipped with Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G and WLAN technologies for fast data transfer and internet connectivity. The Nokia N81 comes with a Nokia headset with remote control, connectivity cable, compact travel charger and battery plus a 2 Gbytes MicroSD memory card. It is powered by Symbian OS 9.2 operating system, S60 release 3.1 UI software plus Java technology features. The Nokia N81 measures 102mm x 50mm x 17.9mm and 140g in weight. Battery life consists of a talk time of four hours and a standby time of 410 hours.

Specifications
The Nokia N81 comes with 12Mbytes of built in memory, 96Mbytes SDRAM memory, ARM 11 369 MHz processor and a MicroSD (Transflash) for further expansion of up to 8Gbytes of storage capabilities. The phone works over UMTS/HSDPA (2100 MHz – 3G), GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz – 2G) networks, support Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, micro USB 2.0, EDGE technology, High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) technology, 3G for data transfer of 384 kbps, WLAN (Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with UPnP) and also has a built in assisted GPRS system (Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps). The device is equipped with a 2-megapixels digital camera with 1600-by-1200-pixels and with 20x digital zoom, flash, Flash Mode (On, Off, Automatic & Red Eye Reduction), photo gallery, photo editor, video capture (VGA at 15fps), video recorder (supports MPEG4, H264, H263, 3GPP, RealVideo 8/9/10 formats), video playback, video streaming, video editor and a secondary CIF video call camera.

Display
There’s a 2.4-inches screen display that comes with a resolution of 240-by-320-pixels. This TFT screen display features 16 million colours.

Design
The Nokia N81 measures at 102mm in height, 50mm in width, 17.9mm in depth and 140g in weight.

Power
It comes with a Li-Polymer 1050 mAh (BT-6MT) battery that has a talk time of four hours and a standby time of 410 hours.

Network & Connections
Network features are 3G with UMTS/HSDPA (2100 MHz) and 2G with GSM (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz) networks. User can also search for music and games on the Internet by accessing the WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML browser, also with the Nokia browser with mini map.

Phone Features
Memory capacity of this phone is 12MB of built-in memory and 96MB of SDRAM memory. There’s a MicroSD slot present which means that it accepts flash cards of up to 8GB. It works on the ARM 11 369 MHz processor. There’s a 2-megapixels digital camera with 1600-by-1200-pixels. It features 20x digital zoom, flash, Flash Mode (On, Off, Automatic & Red Eye Reduction), photo gallery, photo editor, video capture (VGA at 15fps), video recorder (supports MPEG4, H264, H263, 3GPP, RealVideo 8/9/10 formats). There are also features on this phone for video playback, video streaming, video editor and there’s a secondary CIF video call camera.

Media
There’s also a media player that acts as a music player and video player. It supports formats such as MP3 (VBR), M4A, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WAV, WMA and supports Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, MP3 and True tones.

Other Features
The Nokia N81 also comes with alarm clock, built in stereo FM radio, voice memo commands and recording, calendar, alarm clock, Phone Book, to do list, calculator, Notes, Countdown Timer, PoC (Push-to-talk over Cellular), a built in stereo hands free Speaker, PIM Printing, Call Log (Missed, Received & Dialled Calls), Speaker Independent Name Dialling (SIND), Internet Calls VoIP, Conference Call and 3.5 mm audio output jack. Other feature includes sharing photographs and video clips with others by using the MMS messaging service which allows user to send and receive messages complete with photographs, images or video clips with sound and text or the email service with supports attachments which supports JPEG, 3GPP, MP3, PPT, DOC, XLS or PDF format, SMS (text messaging), instant messaging and Predictive Text Input T9 technology.

Reviews

“Reviewing the Nokia N81 was fun, except for the short periods when it got on our nerves with its awkward D-pad. Having in mind that some of its disadvantages will be fixed, we think a strong and able Symbian device is joining up the ranks. A screen of this size is not so often seen, while its gaming powers add up to a really exciting gadget. There’s no doubt however that the N81 is quite a niche product, even if it’s not as outspokenly eccentric as its N-gage siblings. It’s worth considering how many people will be tempted by the rich smartphone functionality and turned down by the excessively youthful image of the gaming-happy N81. The hefty price tag is no surprise but it may cause many to think twice before choosing a Nokia N81 over N95 for example. If you ask us, we’ll definitely go for the N95, never mind its inadequate battery. Plus, the N81 is the game-centered device in the N-series, but many of its teammates are compatible with the N-gage games anyway.” (GSMArena, 2007)