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By Budi Putra
Editor 3GWeek.Net

It has everything you need. Its an iPod and a phone. And it’s also a 3G and Wi-Fi-enable mini smart phone. How can people say 4Gb with room for up to 3000 songs is not enough?

Got this phone a couple of days ago, I can’t stop looking at it! Looks very slick and stylish. It’s so amazing with it’s major features. This phone is going to give everything in one. Since I don’t like to carry so many things with me, like music player, camera, handycam, notebook and mobile phone, N91 is for sure a best friend for me.

Thanks to Apple’s Ipod, Nokia should not to spend too much money and time just to promote what kind of the music phone is. Despite the fact Nokia came later with this category, but the Finnish phone maker can prove that they could be the best one in which area they involve in. Nokia N91 is an example: it delivers both a fantastic music experience and cutting-edge phone features.

Better late than never; Nokia’s first proper music phone, N91 serves up to 12.5 hours of great sound via the included stereo headset with remote control. It supports a wide range of digital music formats including MP3, M4A, AAC and WMA.

The industry standard 3.5mm stereo headset jack and easy transfer of music files from your PC help make the Nokia N91 a connected mobile jukebox.

Offered with price between US$700-800, N91 has dedicated music keys on its face, which slide down to reveal the phone keypad. But I think that a certain part of keypads aren’t that comfortable to use, since the * 0 # keys are too close to the edge of the sliding mechanism.

Another most fascinating: Connectivity is abundant. Packed with multiple connectivity options, such as 3G W-CDMA, WLAN and Bluetooth wireless technology, the Nokia N91 makes it easy for you to find and enjoy music when and where you want. You can quickly and easily find and purchase music over the air to your device from your operator’s music store.

Drag and drop your personal music collection from your PC to your Nokia N91 or synchronize your recent music purchases with your PC via non-proprietary mini USB port.

You can also create and manage your playlists directly on your Nokia N91, or shuffle songs around to build your optimal listening experience. A revolutionary feature of the Nokia N91 is the possibility to share your playlists with friends by multimedia message, email or Bluetooth.

The Nokia N91 also contains the latest multimedia technologies and smartphone functionalities, including a 2 megapixel camera for print-quality photos (the camera quality of this phone is absolutely outstanding!), email support, a full web browser (powered by Opera based web browser with its exquisite small screen rendering capabilities) and video sharing.

And like other N Series, N91 has a special feature called Lifeblog. Lifeblog is smart software that’s intuitive to use. You can sstore, organize, browse, search, and edit your multimedia files from the phone or PC. Take a picture with your phone and post it to the Web in less than a minute.

Even if you’re not a Lifeblogger (yet), Nokia Lifeblog is indispensable software for storing and synching your mobile images, video, messages, and audio files. “The mobile telephone is becoming a life recorder,” said Christian Lindholm, former head of user interfaces at Nokia and now the man behind the Lifeblog project. “I would like lifeblogging to become a verb.”

More impressively, especially in Weblog-and-feed booming nowadays, N91 has Web feed aplication that can help you organise and retrieve the real-time feeds from any Weblogs and feed-enable Websites. Even to feed your own Weblogs anywhere on the Internet.

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