“Nokia AB, the world’s foremost mobile phone maker has introduced the most superior mixture of wireless phone and MP3 player devices (Nokia N91) that participates against Apple Computer’s iPod,” Karandeep Singh Dhillon writes for Moneyplans.net.
“Its 4GB internal hard drive that easily holds 3,000 songs is the unique feature of Nokia91. Previously electronic goods giant Samsung, introduced a 2GB internal hard drive phone that only exists in Korea. Nokia’s N91 doubles its capacity and available globally,” Dhillon writes.
MacDailyNews Take: It must be really unique, because 4GB at a decent bit rate will actually hold about 1,000 songs.
Dhillon writes, “There is also an increase of about 3.5-millileter in the headphone jack that makes it more friendly with a wide array of high-end audio headsets. Its incorporated Wi-Fi connection allows users to wirelessly haul and drop music files from a PC. The N91 also boasts an audio output port for hooking up external speakers or stereo systems. It has a sleek, futuristic look, with music control buttons… The U.S. retail price depends on how carriers make it available to subscribers, but the European price reportedly reaches about 700 euros ($900).”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Would you rather have a 4GB iPod mini and a cellphone to carry around or a 4GB iPod mini that also offered a built-in cellphone? Yes, the Nokia N91 is too expensive. Yes, it doesn’t really hold 3,000 songs unless you like your songs to sound a bit worse than AM radio quality. Yes, this model isn’t the exact cellphone/music player model that will hurt Apple’s iPod, but it is the first to offer something that Apple does not: it makes phone calls and it eliminates the need to carry two devices where one would suffice. If the Nokia N91 used a Click Wheel (Apple patent pending), worked with AAC/FairPlay (iTunes Music Store), offered software/user interface designed in Cupertino, and was priced like an iPod mini (even if that meant signing up for a year plan with a carrier), we’d get it instead of an iPod any day of the week. Apple are you listening?
Note: Nokia to use Microsoft’s music formats on its handsets.
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Re malingerer’s:
“The likelyhood that Apple’s defined product solution will be implemented on any carriers platform is almost nil. Fact is, carriers dwarf Apple in size and amount of subscribers, both nationally and globally. “
Can anyone spell cartel? Monopolistic practice? Barriers to competition?
I’m no lawyer, but….COURT-CASE, ANYONE?
What the F*CK!
It is not Nokia AB!
It is Nokia Oyj!
Nokia comes from Finland not from Sweden!
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Ditto on “one guy’s” comment. Norway has nothing to do with Nokia.
It is like saying that Microsoft is a German company. Ludicrous.
The better and correct expression for the Finnish company is always “Nokia Oy”.
It’s easy to remember, like TNT! Oy! Oy! Oy!
MDN you are hung up on the number of songs the phone holds.
What´s an Apple shuttle hold – 500?
the future is all in one.
People don´t want to carry all these gadgets around.
No matter “One guy from Finland”, the market in Sweden is obviously bigger. Though it would be good for Apple/Motorola to give Nokia a run for its money!
MW is every as in “every-one” can benefit from an iPhone implemented properly. The Telecom industry needs to have its ass kicked big time … ridiculous to consider how much money is wasted on silly things suchj as ring tones and logos, not to mention the ridiculous call charges. I expect WiFi-Max to give mobile operators a run for their money (literally!)
“Won’t Work MDN” – Check it out:
All your questions, complaints, whines answered:
The N91, Nokia’s 4GB musicphone
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000683041511/
simple, elegant, “click wheel” and keypad….
>MDN wrote: Would you rather have a 4GB iPod mini and a cellphone to carry around or a 4GB iPod mini that also offered a built-in cellphone?
I’d rather have the 4GB phone – preferably one that’s not locked into iTMS.
>MDN wrote: Would you rather have a 4GB iPod mini and a cellphone to carry around or a 4GB iPod mini that also offered a built-in cellphone?
I’d rather have the 4GB phone – preferably one that’s not locked into iTMS.
>MDN wrote: Would you rather have a 4GB iPod mini and a cellphone to carry around or a 4GB iPod mini that also offered a built-in cellphone?
I’d rather have the 4GB phone – preferably one that’s not locked into iTMS.
If the price tag they’re throwing around is right, this won’t be the killer. But if it gets even as much hype & attention as the Moto Razr, it’ll open the door for a cheaper version that *will* be the killer.
Looks pretty slick.
I’d like the clickwheel on my iPod to work like a rotary dial wheel.
THIS JUST IN!:
Nokia shot itself in foot, and is chasing its tail.
Now to just flush them down the drain..
Nokia had potential, but all of their phones have sucked big time in the last 5 years
Ditching the keypad for a scroll wheel is just the kind of bold simplification Apple would be likely to do (like axing the display for the shuffle). Most people make calls via their stored contacts, so if an Apple phone synchs with Address Book, you’d rarely need a keypad to enter a number anyway. The bigger problem would be how to enable text messaging if there’s no keypad. Maybe the screen could be touch sensitive and use a stylus a la Palm Pilot? If so, you could activate a numeric keypad for dialing and a QWERTY keypad for messages no problem. Text messaging is overdue for some Apple-style simplification.
Little Thorpedo doesn’t understand. Everyone chuckle with sympathy.
Now to repeat, boy, Nokia is from Finland.
ummm…helloo…wt ru talking abt man…airplanes..u just need to swithc it to airplane / offline mode and rok on!!!