I made a short video showing the Nokia N95’s accelerometer. After months of owning the Nokia N95, I’m surprised this phone had it! You might be familiar with this technology from watching the iPhone commercials where the screen automatically changes when you hold it sideways. This is such a cool feature, I don’t understand why Nokia haven’t fully integrated it with the phone yet. Check out the video.

In the second part of my Nokia N81 8GB review, I’ll cover the main functions of the device that makes it stand out from the rest of the Nokia Nseries: its Music and Gaming features. In the end, I think the Nokia N81 does a great job as music-phone, and the upcoming Ngage games will be the main reason to consider buying this phone.

I am reviewing the Nokia N81 8GB in two parts. In this post, I’ll go in-depth with the form factor of the phone and how it is related to the functions. I’ll review about using the Nokia N81 8GB interface and software in a later post. For the the physical aspects of the N81 8GB, I think the phone is well designed and nicely built, but it has a few annoyances.

One of the things I love about my Nokia N95 is its 5-megapixel camera. Since I don’t leave home without my phone, that means I always have my camera. So when my girlfriend told me she wanted to bring her cousins from California to the Brooklyn Bridge, I had my camera with me to snap pictures like a tourist in New York City.

I used my Apple Macbook Pro to update the Nokia N93i to the latest firmware as of writing this entry, version 30.0.013, using VMware Fusion without any problems. As you may know, Nokia Software Update only works on Windows. If you are a Mac user, you get the benefits of both worlds by being able to run Windows on a Mac.