Thursday, December 6, 2007

Nokia N81 Review - A Review of the Nokia N81 Cell Phone by Jonathan Baker

The Nokia N81 cell phone focuses on entertainment and includes camera, music, game, Personal Information Management, and map functions. The 4.94 ounce, 4.05 inch height by 1.97 inch width by 0.7 inch thickness, presents an easy to use package. A slider separates the top and bottom halves of the phone to provide access to the input keys. Two gigabytes of memory is standard with up to 4 gigabytes possible via hot-swappable microSD memory cards.

The Nokia N81 features a 2.4 inch diagonal, active matrix QVGA screen (320 by 240) displays quality images including up to 16.7 million colors.

The 2 mega pixel camera has 20x digital zoom, an integrated flash with red eye reduction, and captures video pictures in MPEG-4 format at 15 frames per second. MPEG-4, H.264, H.263/36PP, and Real Video 8/9/10 video formats are supported. The Image Sequence mode automatically takes up to 6 pictures with one depression of the shutter so the best picture can be selected.

Both a stereo digital music player and a stereo FM Visual Radio are standard. The music player supports MP3 (VBR), AAC, eAAC+, WMA/M4A and WAV formats with play lists. Integrated stereo speakers and a 5 band equalizer are included.

Gaming functions are supported with dedicated game keys and images can be displayed in portrait or landscape view. Four games are included and more can be purchased through the Nokia N-Gage gaming service.

Nokia N81 phone capabilities include Speed Dial, Auto Redial, Conference Calling, and Fixed Dial that allows calls to be placed to only predefined numbers. A hands free integrated loud speaker is standard.

Concatenated SMS (Shared Message Service) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) support text messaging and the T9 Predictive Text key method enables quick, accurate entry of text.

Personal Information Management functions include a WAP 2.0 Web Browser, Calendar, To-Do List, Measures and Currency Converter, Alarm Clock, Calculator, Notes, and PC Synchronization of Contacts, Calendar, and Play lists.

The Nokia Maps application is included for direction finding and active navigation can be implemented with a separately purchased Nokia GPS wireless Bluetooth module.

Connectivity to other devices is possible through WLAN IEEE 802.11 b/g with UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), Bluetooth 2.0, and Micro USB 2.0 Full speed interfaces.

The Nokia N81 cellular phone battery can be expected to provide an average of 240 minutes of talk time on GSM networks, 180 minutes on WCDMA networks, and 17 days of standby depending on usage characteristics.

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