Nokia N81 - is one of the newest Nokia smartphones. In sliders managed to accommodate a lot of functions, it is a quality player and dedicated keys for the games. In fact, the N81 is the first upstream oriented games and N-Gage platform.

Design

Carefully looking machine, you know that the engineers were no easy task. They have put an enormous amount of the controls and many components in a compact casing, umudrivshis leave a pleasant appearance.
Corpus rightly feels a bit fat, and massive. N81 weighs 140 grams, which is longer than Nokia N95 8 GB or even Nokia N80. By dimensions, it is comparable with the Nokia 6110 Navigator and other smartphones this form factor.
The upper halves slider very thin, slightly wider and higher bottom. Play between halves of almost none. Specifically, it is minimal and, in general, not critical. However, in a test sample, which falls to us earlier, the slider mechanism has been very badly eroded. Phone sold not so long ago, so the actual behavior through an impressive slider until the operation is difficult to judge. At kind of construction is sturdy, movements occur smoothly, and without tap the strengths of falls, therefore, assume that only a strong movement inherent in the test sample and has no place in the new devices.
Corpus is a metal chassis with lids from plastic markogo lacquer. Building and the overall ergonomics corps performed almost perfectly. Metal painted, but the paint on the resilience difficult to say. Plastic - with a black lacquer coating - relatively thin, but the quality.

The display, subjectively, it is better than the N95 or 6110 Navigator. The colors are very bright, lush, vibrant colors. Viewing Angle and other parameters are also images at the highest level.
Stereo speakers located on both sides of the hull. They covered the metal ribs and it looks quite impressive. Indeed, if this is not the best, some of the best and loud speakers ever proclaimed in phones. In the same 6110 Navigator installed loud dynamics and quality for the best playback quality voice support, but in this case the sound even louder and more qualitative. Even some multimedia notebooks may envy the volume of the earpiece.
The model used microUSB-connector to connect to the PC. For charging and connect the headphones are allocated interfaces.
A display on the small area located generally “constellation” buttons: two soft keys, buttons management challenges, four keys player, manager contour of the central Keys, keyboard multimedia menu, as well as buttons, and the abolition of the entrance to the main menu. Despite this abundant and close location of the elements cause inconvenience only one key. The whole big finger of fault, which when clicked, or the lower right-hand circuit manager hurt key player. Over time, this can be especially used to.
What is interesting, there is absolutely no discomfort when pressing to miniature silvery multimedia key menu towering middle of the sea the other keys. In the user manual, this button does not say, in every case where it is mentioned, it is drawn-out. But people close to Nokia, called this control button Anssi - in honor Anssi Vanjoki, the heads of Nokia multimedia unit, which invented the button and carousel menu that appears after clicking it.
Buttons “reception” and “Lights Out”, which ends keyboard nestled in the block, as Sydney without negative emotions.
Area around the circuit allows the administrator to manage player. Central hotkey combines the functions of the pad and buttons confirm the selection. In the latter case, the area is working as usual hardware key.
Navy Wheel functionality by default, it had to include a menu. Sensor works only in mediamenyu, galleries and player, and just to navigate through the lists. In the main menu or other programs is inactive.Even in the few cases where actual sensory panel, to use it is not always convenient. Area keyboard is very small, so the rotational motion of the resulting menu, perform inconvenient. Moreover, with the activated Navy Wheel is becoming more difficult to enjoy the basic functionality of central keys.
It would be much more relevant permit to use a touchscreen, for example, in your browser. Although in this case it is too small an area severely restricted the actions of the user. Perhaps the potential of the touch panel will be disclosed in future Nokia phones, but in this case, severely limited the user and disable function correctly - that is not hampered.
Except as described buttons, there are two more - loud and keys on the right end of the camera - as well as the inclusion and the slider button to turn off the keypad mounted on the upper front. He, like many players, completely blocking the keyboard. It is claimed when connecting headphones and remote control package.
Telephone keys are short but strong progress. They are plastic, not metal, as is often the case when such a realization keyboard.

Menu

Program Nokia N81 is different from all the latest smartphones company. Platform: S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1, the operating system: Symbian OS v9.2. I need hardly tell once again the main points, so proceed immediately to innovation.
In the first instance, to describe the N-Gage. Before the release of the full game environment N-Gage presented a set of demo games and summary promises. In our case before football games, and arcade space race. Not able to say that the game graphics or enamored particularly interesting gameplay. Perhaps later appear more interesting games to correct the situation.
Games are automatically in landscape mode, with the active gaming keys marked with a circle and a square. Play is quite convenient apparatus confidently rests in the hands, buttons conveniently Sydney.
Music player is different special functionality. This is the standard solution, which we have seen in the Nokia 5700 smartphone and some others with music classes.
Audio quality is better than in the Nokia N95 and other similar devices. Bloginfo Samsung U-series, subjectively, sounded better. What particularly surprised N81 quite comfortable working with high-AKG K240 Studio and Sennheiser HD270. In both cases, the volume remained at an acceptable level.
In mouse installed Wi-Fi manager and UPnP client. Like the PlayStation 3, Nokia N81 can get data from household appliances or compatible computer (unless, of course, it is UPnP server).
Working with Wi-Fi has been volatile. After 5-10 minutes brouzinga started active network lost. We were unable to find out why, or under any of their resolve.
The set also has a customer Music Store, which will be useful only to residents of Britain, Adobe PDF and the Search 4.0. Office package or a separate Media are not available.
New version of the search service searches on the Internet or by phone Resources (music, contacts, calendar, messages, bookmarks, pictures, video card, applications, and notes). Search extremely convenient, searches by keyword or part of speech. The results are grouped by category, if it belongs to several results.
This program will be installed in all new Nseries smartphones and Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 8GB have already received the new version of its firmware.
Carousel multimedia menu presented six pages: music, games, gallery, contacts, and Internet card. In each case, there are bookmarks to the most popular features section. For a list of contacts favorite numbers for the browser - bookmarks, for the gallery - and access to the gallery last snapshot from the camera and so on. Pages could be regrouped for each secured room for easy access.

The map 7672 MB of memory is available, in the phone’s memory - 25 MB. Of the 96 MB RAM 42 MB user aside. This is a very good figure. As a result, you can run multiple applications of heavy, and all of them will work correctly and quickly. In addition, a large quantity of RAM positive impact on the work of the browser and the maximum number of open pages. Rather, history with the first iteration of N-Gage repeated again. Those devices, which will be officially endorsed by the producer for the Games, will be equipped with an adequate amount of RAM; the rest of the game demanding simply will not work anymore.
3D adapter built-no, but 332 MHz processor Freescale shows very good performance, close to the upcoming Nokia N95.
Manufacturer used capacious 1050 mAh battery, which even under the most active use withstand impressive two days. You can talk about confident 4-5 days with an average use of the work.
Data on microUSB place with little to 8 GB of memory speeds of 1500 KB / s, often falling to the level of 500 KB per second.

Camera

Photographs obtained by slightly noisy and blurred visible artifacts from excessive compression, but the color is very natural, colors are bright and natural. The edges are blurred objects, but not merge with the rest picture. In the dark places noises particularly visible, but not unpleasant green tide.
Overall, the quality of pictures above average. It is hardly possible to find a similar level of the camera, which could offer better-quality pictures. In N81 established budgetary decision, albeit a very good quality.

Conclusions

We had tests on Nokia N81 8GB different from Nokia N81 additional 8 GB flash memory card-and the lack of reader. In fact, everything said here applies equally to the two phone.
The developers have established a large number of functions in a relatively compact casing, with a negative impact on the overall weight and ergonomic keyboard. Perhaps some do not like the lack of HSDPA, and the average camera.
Staff worked very quickly, supported gaming platform N-Gage and qualitatively reproduces music. It is unlikely that it can be recommended for purchase at the current price, but at least a reduction to $ 500, Nokia N81 8GB might well be in the pockets of the advanced youth.
Set:
Nokia N81 8GB
Wired Stereo HS-45
Remote Control AD-54
USB cable CA-101
The battery-BP 6MT
Battery charger, AC-5
Instructions
Instruction Quickstart
Leaflet
DVD-ROM with a set of programs