Since the releases from last couple of months, it seems that cellphones industry seem to seriously replace ipods/mp3 players etc. Samsung has already revealed their cellphone with a hard disk, motorola has released their music phone, Sonyericsson comes up with w800 walkman phone. Nokia which has number one market share which is 30% according to latest stats, is not behind either. Nokia has announced N91 which is a music phone as well as a UMTS smartphone with WLAN capabilities. This makes Nokia N90 the most prominent in Nokia's latest N series.

Features

The most distinguishing feature of Nokia N91 is the presence of a 4Gb internal hard disk. This allows you to save upto 3000 tracks (according to a normal estimate) into your cellphone. Every other feature is there to make the best use of the space. Now you can plug any standard 3.5 headphones into your Nokia N91. Many formats such as mp3, wma, wav etc are supported that Nokia N91 could play. You can experience many media management features in Nokia N91. Furthermore, there are lot of input options such as direct usb, bluetooth and most important wireless lan i.e. 802.11 b, 802.11 g. I think, presence of 802.11g is a great milestone in this field and will make the difference. You could also record music from a line-in connector, mic, FM radio etc. Hence, nothing seems to be left behind in Nokia N91. There are a many options to share your music in Nokia N91. The mp3 functions are also applicable in sim free or flight mode.
As far as cellphone features are concerned, Nokia N91 looks perfectly like a cellphone with all advanced featues. The stainless steel sliding form factor looks attractive. You will also find a 2 MegaPixel camera will almost all imaging features in Nokia N91. Nokia N91 is based on Symbian series 60 platform with some improvements. A 30Mb built-in memory is also present for user applications. The screen is 176x208 pixels as normally in series 60 smartphones.

Conclusion

Nokia N91 is a great addition to the race of music phones, smartphones. I think its a tough competition out there. Apart from capabilities, stability of the cellphone in normal use could also be considered as an important factor in deciding the fate.If mechanical hard disk became stable as flash media then it could bring wonders to cellphones and further increase the space and reducing the price. Nokia N91 is expected to be released by the end of 2005. Price is expected to be around 700 Euro.