Nokia's N81 slider is an 8GB N-Gager

by Thomas Ricker, posted Aug 29th 2007 at 6:14AM

Remember the sidetalkin' N-Gage? Yeah... well, this isn't it. This is Nokia's new N-81 gaming device built upon their revamped N-Gage gaming platform. The S60 device packs HSDPA (sorry, no US band support) for on-line gaming, integrated speakers (and 3.5-mm headphone jack), and D-pad navigation for getting your game on. Still, it's not just for gaming as it fully supports all the audio and video you'd expect in a new "pane-driven," UI which carousels your windows instead of lining them up in tabs -- a UI which will evolve in the coming months in line with Ovi. On sale Q4 in Europe in an 8GB flash model (€431/$585) or €360/$490 pre-bunged with a 2GB microSD card. You did see our hands-on, right?

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, GSM, HSDPA

Tags: n-gage, n81, nokia

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MasterCKO @ Aug 29th 2007 2:42PM

hrm, this almost makes me want to move back from smartphones and stuff.

On the other hand, I love my cheap unlimited data plan and I can't use a phone without QWERTY anymore.

Oh well, I'm still pretty impressed with this and all the announcements from our friends over in Finland.