Official announcement of Nokia N81 smartphone.

Today at Go Play event Nokia introduced Nokia N81 smartphone. It is optimized for entertainment, music and games and features thus dedicated control buttons, larger memory size, a large and bright display and enhanced battery. This is a slider offered in two modifications: Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB.

Nokia says the user can quickly access content of 3D multimedia menu due to new design and buttons backlit at push. Nokia N81 is tuned for search, buy, control and playback of music and games via Nokia Music Store and N-Gage services. The shipments of Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB are scheduled for 4Q 2007, available colors will be Cobalt Blue and Graphite Grey.

The specs of Nokia N81:

• Networks - GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and WCDMA 2100 MHz
• OS - Symbian 9.2, S60 3rd Edition platform
• Display – 2.4” 240x320 pixels, 16.7M colors
• Memory - 8 GB or extendable with microSD-slot
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth 2.0 (profiles DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, GAP, SPP, HSP, BIP, A2DP)
• 2-megapixel camera with digital zoom up to 20x, video capture MPEG-4 VGA 15 fps
• Frontal CIF-camera
• Built-in player - MP3 (VBR), AAC, eAAC+, AAC+, WMA/M4A, WAV, OMA DRM 1.x, 2.0, Windows Media DRM (OTI/OTA with Nokia Music Store); MPEG-4, H.264, H.263/3GPP, RealVideo 8/9/10
• Sync with Windows Media Player 11
• FM-radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz)
• Battery - 1050 mAh
• Talk time – up to 240 minutes (GSM) and up to 180 minutes (WCDMA)
• Standby time – up to 17 days
• Video playback – up to 4.5 hours
• Audio playback – up to 11.5 hours
• Games – up to 6 hours
• Dimensions – 102x50x17.9 mm
• Weight - 140 g