If you’ve owned Nseries devices before you’ll know that the S60 browser comes with several useful bookmarks like links to download video, apps etc. On the N81 8GB after firing up the browser I was greeted with a link to download apps, as usual I like to look around and see what neat little app I might find. To my surprise I’m greeted with what looks like “Nokia Sensor,” a type of social Bluetooth app developed by Nokia that up till today was stuck with support for only 2nd edition devices. So by now I’m all excited that Nokia Sensor has finally received 3^rd edition blessings. When I click the link my excitement turns into disappointment when I’m greeted by the following text: “Downloads are for supported devices only.” Yes I know that! But why in the world would you put a S60 2^nd edition app for download on an S60 3^rd edition device, only to tell the user that “Downloads are for supported devices only”? What about saying: “No download available at the moment” or something, but the need to “fill” up space with unsupported software is unnecessary and just short of an April fool’s joke. Somebody needs to get this fixed and quick! I’m sure they can find apps to fill this space with, how about Widsets and MSN Live?

If that wasn’t enough if I go into Office folder to find Converter, Adobe PDF and ZIP. All very useful for the Office environment, but where is the Word, Excel and Power point reader? Sure, this is not en E-series device, but we have to remember that the N81 is by definition still a smartphone. Event tough it’s a music-first device, what’s a smartphone without its ability to at least read Word, PowerPoint and Excel files?