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Monday June 5, 2006
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 Nokia's long-awaited N91, the first hard-drive-based phone in the US, appeared on the Nokia USA Web site with a surprisingly reasonable $599.99 price. The N91 is a Symbian Series 60 smartphone with a 4 gigabyte hard drive and 2-megapixel digital camera; the hard drive is mostly for storing music, which the phone can play in MP3, AAC, or WMA format. Support for protected WMA files bought from services like Rhapsody and Yahoo! is coming later this year, Nokia says. There's also an FM radio, if you're into whatever Clear Channel wants to bring you today.
The phone connects to the Internet via either EDGE or Wi-Fi. It lacks the 850 Mhz band, so it's better for T-Mobile folks than for Cingular subscribers. I think I must get one in. Meanwhile, importer Dynamism is feeding geeks' hunger for Nokia's E61 "Blackberry-killer" -- a Symbian Series 60 slab-style phone with a full keyboard, Wi-Fi, VOIP software, Microsoft Office document editors, quad-band EDGE (making both Cingular and T-Mobile users happy), and a 320x240 screen. Think of it as a Motorola Q for people who hate Microsoft. This one is $549 from Dynamism, and it will probably also be sold at Nokia's new store in Chicago.
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June 6, 2006 2:07 PM
The Nokia 9200 Communicator (Symbian OS) is by FAR the better form factor and has twice the software, twice the features and the EDGE connection via T-Mobile has always worked flawlessly for me. The interior screen is wide and sharp and bright and reading email is a pleasure. With reading glasses on I sometimes forget that it isn't a laptop screen I'm studying.... I got this one well over a year ago. These were hard to get even through "off the beaten path" channels. Why wasn't it released in North America??? I got mine, but did you get yours? Don't fall for this lame second rate stuff. The Nokia 9200 and 9500 have been released in large numbers everywhere but the US. Now, a year or two later, they should be offering us items that work twice or four times as fast for half the price!!! (The 9200 is bank-vault solid by the way.) The 9200 has way too many features to list here. A lot of folks are waiting (as I am) for this SAME level of quality in the NEXT generation model and in the SAME form factor. Once you've used this one there is no way you are going back to the petite-plastic varieties. NOKIA, get a clue! My wallet is staying put until then! Oh, and please do a deal with Apple so I can run iTunes out of it with at least 5 GIGs of flash. Thanks, JB
November 14, 2008 2:50 PM
I think that nokia is one of better phone and I wish to buy a that is not little cheap