Nokia N81 8GB Review

Look and Feel

The Nokia N81 8GB is certainly the most attractive Nseries phone to date, but we were slightly disappointed with its black plastic casing. It's also prone to attracting those pesky fingerprint smudges.

Features

As with other Nseries handsets, the N81 8GB packs in the features. This phone also boasts 8GB of built-in memory, a preview of the N-Gage gaming platform and, as one of Nokia's flagship music devices, it comes pre-loaded with the Nokia Music Store.

Ease of Use

Nokia phones are famed for their easy-to-use interface and the N81 8GB is no different. The keys are spaced out and the multimedia button provides direct access to music, games, photo gallery, important contacts and recent internet bookmarks.

Performance

The N81 8GB's camera is only a two-megapixeller, but the real boon is the accessibility of the music applications. Downloading music via a PC or direct to the handset is effortless and the phone sports a 3.5mm headphone jack, making it easy to connect to good-quality cans.

Battery Life

The talktime of 240 minutes is sufficient, but the standby time of 410 hours is quite impressive.