nauseous_monkey
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I want to get this phone. What should I know about it before I get it. Any problems?
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Nokia N81
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CPt.Murphy
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ABsolutely terrible build quality. Feels like a cheap toy. The buttons are clicky, and sometimes stick. The music player is always running in the background. Internally for a N-series phone, it isn't that revolutionary either.
Wow that passionate.
Tsepz_GP
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Ive now had mine for a year. Its a fantastic phone, the keys that are realy clicky is the D-pad and the 5-key on the keypad, thats it, the rest of mine are pretty silent with lite click sounds like any other phone. It has a very nice screen, very colourful and nice size, brilliant battery life, very fast UI, excellent sound quality.
It does however have a very poor 2mp fixd focus camera but then again if you want a good camera you'd not be looking at this. The build quality is great, yes the phone is made of very smooth plastic that some may call cheap BUT even after a year of use it still looks great, looks a lot better than my mates N95-8gb which he's had for roughly the same amount of time. The keys do take a lil getting used to but you'l love texting with it after a while. The Music Player running is such a small issue, its what all Music Edition NOKIAs have. The N73-ME, AND N91-8GB both had Music Player running in the background but you can simply get a 3rd party Taskmanager to kill the Music Player, simple. All in all a very nice package for its price, still loving my N81 hoping to spoil it with a 8GB MicroSD and maybe get the Blue housing for it this Xmas for it.
i say go for it.
It does however have a very poor 2mp fixd focus camera but then again if you want a good camera you'd not be looking at this. The build quality is great, yes the phone is made of very smooth plastic that some may call cheap BUT even after a year of use it still looks great, looks a lot better than my mates N95-8gb which he's had for roughly the same amount of time. The keys do take a lil getting used to but you'l love texting with it after a while. The Music Player running is such a small issue, its what all Music Edition NOKIAs have. The N73-ME, AND N91-8GB both had Music Player running in the background but you can simply get a 3rd party Taskmanager to kill the Music Player, simple. All in all a very nice package for its price, still loving my N81 hoping to spoil it with a 8GB MicroSD and maybe get the Blue housing for it this Xmas for it.
i say go for it.