Nokia N81 8GB review: N-series N-gaged

1 November 2007
The Nokia N81 8GB is a truly exciting smartphone combining the power of Symbian 9.2 OS spiced up with the new N-Gage platform. What we have in N81 8GB is entertainment and multimedia unleashed. Not only does its specs sheet impress, but it promises...

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  • ssaloon
  • TIE
  • 17 Jan 2008

how's the battery life of the N81 8GB in terms of real world usage?

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    • Anonymous
    • nit
    • 16 Jan 2008

    i bought it just 5 days ago.it's amazing. it has a lot of features such as wlan. i consider it is a good phone.

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      • Edwin
      • 40%
      • 16 Jan 2008

      I love music and the nokia n81 8gb phone is fantastic i love the interface and the size of the phone memory

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        • Lash
        • NHU
        • 09 Jan 2008

        hi i'm checking up the features here and they seem interesting hence i'm a music fanatic, what i wanna know though do all network dealers have on market?

        love nokia.

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          • dude
          • pki
          • 07 Jan 2008

          this phone sucks i mean what do u need games on a phone you can buy yourself a console and play real games not crap games on this phone and the camera is 2 mpx and dude this year u must have a phone at least 3.2 mpx
          i think nokia 5610 is the best and u should buy it
          whatever

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            • me__
            • pki
            • 03 Jan 2008

            i was wonderin if nokia 5610 is better than n81 8 g someone tell me pls

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              • hg
              • vG2
              • 26 Dec 2007

              ppl can ne 1 lemme knw wat kinda .mp4 nd .rm ths phn supports.....cos i converted a few videos but da real player is able 2 run only da audio.....no video :(......reply asap....
              thnx

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                • e1
                • ibX
                • 25 Dec 2007

                im using both N81 8GB and N95
                I love the music features in N81 and the camera in N95
                nothing worthless...
                each phone has its own benefits...

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                  • zonda
                  • wuc
                  • 11 Dec 2007

                  im cant decide between this and the N95. how good is the navi wheel? is it easy and fun? I think that you have to move your fingertip in clockwise motion to move up a menu and anti clockwise to move down, am i right?

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                    • raja
                    • TL5
                    • 21 Nov 2007

                    atlest nokia must learn 4m china useless...cellphone

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                      • sajjad
                      • u1t
                      • 15 Nov 2007

                      Its supposed to be a gaming device but it didn't have have 3D chip like N95(TI's Chip)....its 2D and 3D rendering is much lower than N95....why is it so?....simple answer its not a gaming device and Nokia thinks consumers are foolish they'll any thing which they offer

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                        • Anonymous
                        • mY2
                        • 12 Nov 2007

                        This is another p.o.s. phone from Nokia.

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                          • thezero
                          • prM
                          • 09 Nov 2007

                          where is the pen key?????it was so usefoul!!!!why did they remove it???that is the only thing whrong with it!!!

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                            • Venkat
                            • MZJ
                            • 07 Nov 2007

                            Phone is great i am enjoying the music and its features. I c'nt find much difference between N95 to N81. In fact i found N81 more user friendly in select Music menu than N91..

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                              • chris
                              • upH
                              • 07 Nov 2007

                              it's not good mobile.i give only 2 stars . Best mobile is nokia n95 8gb .its world no.1 mobile

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                                • Anonymous
                                • TqM
                                • 05 Nov 2007

                                im not to sure what precisely they where trying to show with fft graph and audio results hmm.. would have much preferred to read someones opinion rather than a ill thought out and misinterperated graph

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                                  • moelest
                                  • PFx
                                  • 05 Nov 2007

                                  il stick to my N80ie...eventhough its not the successor of N80 =)

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                                    • moo
                                    • j5K
                                    • 04 Nov 2007

                                    is good phone but why is not flipfone? i prefer MOTORAZOR

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                                      • emc
                                      • TCw
                                      • 02 Nov 2007

                                      Thanks to the test
                                      Really need to pay attention and try more those keypad before giving out the money. It's just too much keypad usage nowsaday, e.g. IM, SmS, email...etc.

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                                        • NSE fan
                                        • M@T
                                        • 02 Nov 2007

                                        I'm sure there is big mistake in speaker measuring test a Single speaker produce good result becoz they might have placed speaker of (SE K850/w960i etc) in front of mic Db measuring meter where as they must have measured stereo speaker by holding phone in way you hold in hand thus considering this Db meter unable to catch up highest volume of N81 coz it not possible for DB meter to catch up highest of speaker coz volume is pumped either side rather than front (human ears can hear this but Db meter can't) even if they measure Db of any one speaker the volume of other gets wasted to measure right Db of N81 they must play song on full blast in an enclosure so that sound must be pumped in front rather than side for sure it can cross 120db and thus on full blast it will blow all the other phones.