Nokia N81 and N81 8GB start shipping

The long-awaited Nokia N81 and Nokia N81 8GB handsets (or, as Nokia call them, “multimedia computers”) are now shipping worldwide.

The most noticable feature with these new handsets is the 3D multimedia menu – which Nokia claims is the first step in their plan to bring a completely new user interface to the Nseries.
“Accessing your portable music and games collection is not enough anymore,” said Jonas Geust, vice president, Multimedia, Nokia. “Today people want to be more in control of how and where they consume their digital entertainment. They want to discover new favorites and share them without being confined to one location – and it’s devices like the Nokia N81 that facilitate this.”

Continuing on the multimedia front, the N81 supports up to 8Gb of memory card, and has a standard 3.5mm stereo headphone jack so you can hook up regular headphones with ease.

The estimated retail price of the Nokia N81 is 360 EUR before subsidies or taxes. The Nokia N81 8GB is expected to retail for 430 EUR before subsidies or taxes.