Yesterday we were speculating about possible UK pricing for Nokia’s nice new N81 music-playing phone. Our guesstimates were that the standard version would come in at about £300 including VAT, and the 8GB one at about £350. However, the guys over at Tech Digest had chance to ask Nokia UK what the final prices would be — and the answers have come back ridiculously high. How does £324 and £394 respectively sound? Bad, right?
We’re baffled and disappointed by this because the claimed official pre-tax prices in Europe were set at €360 and €430 for the two versions of the N81. Those numbers translate as £251 and £300, on which there should be £43 and £52 of VAT payable. So by our calculations, Nokia UK is creaming an extra £45 off the top of every N81 8GB sold off-contract in Britain. Shame!
On the upside, Tech Digest also reports that the N81 will be coming to O2 as well as Vodafone, so if you don’t mind your handset being on-contract then at least there’ll be a second option.
Lastly, the Symbian-Guru has posted his impressions of the N81’s music playing abilities, describing them warmly as ‘the killer music experience’ — and that sounds good to us.
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