Name: Nokia_fan
Location: Boston, MA
Date: 2008-02-05
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Good value for its price
Comment: Got immediately going with this phone.. WiFi capability is awesome.. easy setup.. quick connection...pop3 email support is easy to configure.. still loading up the 8GB memory with songs and softwares.. its like having a hand held computer... bought this phone over blackberry Pearl and a hacked-iphone. Totally worth it.. Graphics are too good and 3-D sound quality is awesome. There is some lag in starting applications (eg: Yahoo Go!) but it is not significant given the size of certain applications. Fun to play Fifa on it... visit n81 blogs for more... dont pay extra for brown color.. it is hardly visible.. the black face plate is stunning...battery life is good too.. needs charging after 3-4 days of use...
Name: A. M.
Location:
Date: 2008-04-27
Customer Rating: -
Summary: One of the best phones out there
Comment: I was amazed when I learned that I could buy this jewel at such a low price! So I immediately ordered it, and I was very satisfied at how fast it got here. The phone itself is amazing: the wifi is a huge plus, and the Symbian operating system is something that I wouldn't be able to live without.
A few pros:
- WIFI!!
- quad-band, so you can basically use it anywhere in the world (needs SIM card)
- amazing set of features for a low price
- great battery life - up to 3 days if I talk for approximately an hour, use the wifi a little bit and play the game boy advance emulator for a couple of hours.
- very cool design
- nicely built, the sliding mechanism seems solid
- the music quality - simply extraordinary!! (this should have been the first one in the list, the music part of this phone is incredible. The speakers are very loud for a handheld device)
- the hands-free is really good
- 8GB of memory. Why would you ever need more?!
- the screen is perfect, very big and good enough even for watching videos on it. Web pages are easily read, even if there is a lot of text.
- the gaming aspect - it's very convenient to have those gaming buttons on top of the screen. They are comfortable and do not seem prone to damage.
- The operating system - you can install anything you want on this phone! To list a few, you can have Google maps, Youtube, Skype, and a whole bunch of emulators (Game boy, Game boy advance, NES, SNES... whatever you can think of :)
- the SIP option - you can call for free over a WLAN network. I am listing this one here because it is a big plus, although you will also find it in "cons" because I could not set it up.
- the speed at which it does everything. You don't have to wait for anything, you simply click on it and it opens. I previously had a Symbian 7 phone, and it was painfully slow compared to this one.
- the ability to synchronize all your contacts and text messages, etc, from your old phone to this one. There is a pre-installed app on the phone that does it all for you, in a flash.
- the second camera for video calls, although I don't know when I'll actually get to use that one.
- the N-gage games! How could I forget this one :) They are pretty good, and there's a whole bunch of new games coming up, so if you are a gamer you will enjoy that.
Cons:
- I had trouble synchronizing my Windows Media Player playlists with the phone. Either I could put my songs in a folder on the memory card, but without transferring the playlist file (so I only had a huge number of songs, but not arranged in any order), or I would have the playlist file, but all the songs would go directly into the root of the memory card, which would probably slow down the phone eventually.
- the buttons are not very convenient for typing text (compared to my old 6600); also, I keep pressing the "play" button accidentally, which is annoying because it starts to play music loud all of a sudden and startles everyone around.
- the camera is quite bad. This is not a problem for me, since I don't use it anyway, but if you want a nice camera then do not buy this phone. It really takes crappy pictures, with bad colours (kind of greenish), and quite flaky. I even feel like the front camera for video calls takes better pictures, even though the one on the back has a higher resolution. The flash is useless, too. The videos it makes are pretty good though, with a nice framerate and not choppy at all.
- as I already mentioned, I could not set up the internet calling. It always says "registration failed", while everything works fine on my PC. However, you need to have a wifi network in range to be able to use SIP, so it's not useful for everyone - so probably it won't matter to you that much. It is nice to use it at home or in the office - you could save quite a lot of money by calling over the net.
Name: Mario Moran
Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
Date: 2008-06-10
Customer Rating: -
Summary: WHAT A NICE PHONE - GET ROLLED
Comment: This is a nice product, a very nice phone (or should I say "very nice ALL-IN-ONE PHONE"?), I gotta tell you, it worth every penny, first days I was a little upset because I didn't get into it, but now... seems to be a nice solution for a lot of things, what I have installed in my AIO PHONE:
1. Skype
2. MSN
3. Office Viewer
4. Lots of games (metal gear solid acid for mobiles, fifa, etc)
5. Internet using WiFi corporate network (you can specify the type of encryption, open/shared, IPV4 y IPV6, sutnet, gateways and DNSs)
6. Yahoo Chat
7. Google Talk
8. Bluetooth connectivity is really awesome
9. Opera Mini and the built-in brower (both are good)
10. PDF Reader (this is nice if you need to open/read something while you're traveling)
11. You can synchronize it with Windows Media Player what is nice too, because is easy to find WMP already installed in your computer (against the ipod/iphone-itunes, you have to download it and is a little tricky)
12. ETC.
Of course, not everything is PINK, and has some cons:
1. Is just a bit bigger and heavier than the w810, but if you think you're getting WiFi, you forget that.
2. I guess... is easier to use a sony ericsson, but every feature included in the N81 worth to learn something new.
3. The storage (8gb) is built-in, and it has not any slot to expand the capacity, but again, I guess 8gb is enough space for applications, games and music.
4. Since I'm an IT guy, I like to keep my gadgets UP-TO-DATE, but the Software updater is not available for Windows Vista, so, I gotta wait the release, of course, it does not means the phone does not work, but sometimes when you update your software, some enhancements in performance and new features are included, the updater is only supported by Windows XP.
5. The realplayer is the player included with the phone, and only plays mp4 and 3gp, the resolution on the screen is nice, but, sometimes, when you're trying to watch videos from YouTube.com (yes, you can watch streaming video too) the player get fuzzy... and you should close and open again the video in order to get a better display.
That's my experience with the N81 8GB, I hope it will be useful for you. BR
Name: Pablo Linares
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 2008-07-22
Customer Rating: -
Summary: AWSOME PRODUCT
Comment: I have just bought my N81 GB a feew weeks ago and I really have to say it has exceded my expectations. What a wonderfull gadget!
Every single minute I'm learning more how to exploit it the most.
From the design to the look and feel of the interface. Everything is almost perfect.
Before buying this product I was evaluating other possibilities, as an HTC Touch. But the requirement of having to use stylus to type SMS decided me to go for this one. The overall build is quite robust, considering it is a device that needs to be handled appropiately.
Will resume some CONS and PROS:
CONS (most of them S60 related)
-Music Player always running on background (since it is always sensing the multimedia keys - can be solved by using an external task manager app for Symbian)
-Alarm Snooze time: the default is 5 minutes and was not able to find how to change it. Nokia 6131 on the other hand has this feature)
Sure, you can get another Alarm application for Symbian.
-Music Files: When you upload them, no matter what specific folders you enter them, Music PLayer will show the entire list (this would include MP3 ringtones and funny sounds you might have uploaded!), unless you create specific Playlists or rely on the ID3 MP3 tags.
-Contacts Syncronization: Default Nokia PC Suite for N-Series will only syncronize with any contact management application in place (Outlook / Outlook express / etc) but will not give the chance to use a Nokia one. This can be solved anyway by using the standard Nokia PC Suite.
PROS:
-Design
-Features
-Cost/Benefit ratio
-Gaming Platform
-Sound quality (built in stereo speakers)
-OS (Symbian) and all related Custom Apps
-Divx Playing
-Most of the CONS can be overcame
In conclusion, this little gadget has everything a phone with the same characteristics should have and even more, with a great potential of expansion due to the Operative System type. I really recommend it.
I suggest for a Nice review (which helped me a lot) to take a look at the Nokia N81 8GB Review by Nokiaduck on Youtube.
Name: Petr Slezar
Location:
Date: 2008-05-23
Customer Rating: -
Summary: Great Phone
Comment: This is a great phone. I don't regret its purchase. Battery is better than I've expected, it lasts for two days and I'm using the phone practically nonstop. Recharging takes about hour and a half which is also a plesant surprise. This is a great phone for its price.
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