N81

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (Finnish: Nokia Oyj, Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnokiɑ], UK /ˈnɒkiə/, US /ˈnoʊkiə/) is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology company, founded in 1865. Nokia is headquartered in Espoo, Uusimaa, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. In 2014, Nokia employed 61,656 people across 120 countries, conducts sales in more than 150 countries and reported annual revenues of around €12.73 billion. Nokia is a public limited-liability company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 274th-largest company measured by 2013 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

The company currently focuses on large-scale telecommunications infrastructures, and technology development and licensing. Nokia is also a major contributor to the mobile telephony industry, having assisted in development of the GSM and LTE standards, and was, for a period, the largest vendor of mobile phones in the world. Nokia's dominance also extended into the smartphone industry through its Symbian platform, but it was soon overshadowed by the growing dominance of Apple's iPhone line and Android devices. Nokia eventually entered into a pact with Microsoft in 2011 to exclusively use its Windows Phone platform on future smartphones.

Nokia N81

The Nokia N81 is a smartphone announced by Nokia on 29 August 2007 and released the next month.

The N81 was marketed as a mobile gaming device, similar like the 2003 N-Gage. It was the first device that came preloaded with the N-Gage 2.0 gaming service in 2008 (albeit in public beta), and it came with 2 dedicated gaming keys that can be used for N-Gage games and other applications. The four-way navigation key, the silver-coloured slightly rounded square key below the display, also contains a capacitive sensor. Some firmware revisions allowed the user to scroll through options by 'stroking' the key in a similar manner to the click-wheel on some models of iPod. During the launch of N-Gage, the N81 was specifically chosen by Nokia in advertisements. The N81 is notable for being the only N-Gage 2.0 device with special gaming keys.

Variants

An 8 GB version of the Nokia N81 was also available. The only difference is the lack of the Micro SD slot. The phone treats the 8 GB as a Micro SD, while keeping about 25 MB of it, to itself.