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Nokia N91

The first company smartphone supporting Wi-Fi and equipped with a hard drive. The company positions the phone as a musical device, since this hard drive capacity seems excessive for any other use. Another peculiarity is body made of stainless steel similar to Nokia 8800 .

Class: smartphone, 3G, fashion
Position in the line: above Nokia N90
Rivals: Samsung i300
Start price will form about 850 USD
Description based on oficial information

General features
- Announced in April 2005, on the market since July 2005, official announcement on the 27 April 2005
- eGSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA 2100
- Battery 900 mAh Li-Ion (BL-5C)
- Battery life:
- Full recharging takes about 2 hours
- Colour high-contrast graphical display, up to 262K (TFT), has the resolution of 176x208 pixels, physical size of 35x41 mm
- 5D navi button
- Run by Symbian OS version 9.1 (interface Platform 60 ver 3)
- 2-MP camera (CMOS), supported resolutions 1600x1200, 1024x768, 640x480 pixels, integrated flash effective for a distance of 1.5 meter, anti-red eyes effect, scene setting, select light conditions, x20 digital zoom
- Recording video with sound and resolutions of 352x288, 176x144, 128x96 pixels
- Weight: 156 gramms
- Dimensions: 113.1 x 55.2 x 22 mm

Memory
- 10 MB of memory are dynamically shared among the phone book, calendar, messages, images and applications
- 4 GB hard drive
- A possibility to assign a photo to a number in the phone book
- Keeping Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile number, Fax and e-mail address - totally 8 fields for a name. A possibility to add unlimited number of fields yourself.
- Unlimited number of callers' groups, one name may be assigned to several groups at the same time
- SIM-card entries are stored separately, impossible to view them together with phone memory
- Call lists are unlimited in the number of entries, besides the date and call duration call type is specified. A possibility to set a storage period for entries (a month by default)

Call management, ringing tones
- Vibracall
- Polyphonic call, True Tones,supported formats AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
- 64-tones call, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
- Voide dialing independent from the pronounciation, no need in making preliminary bookmarks
- Speakerphone
- Call duration is shown during the call
- Musical composer, a possibility to assign melodies to names in thes phone book

SMS
- Predictive text input Т9
- Templates (10 preset, change them or add your own)
- Sending and receiving graphical messages
- Concatenated messages (up to 459 characters)

Connectivity
- WAP 2.0
- Bluetooth v.1.2
- WiFi (802.11 b/g)
- HSCSD
- GPRS class 10
- EGPRS (Class B, Multislot class 10)
- E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 - attachments
- MMS
- Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth or a cable
- SyncML
- SMIL
- USB 2.0 via Pop-Port
- PoC or PTT
- Instant Messaging
- VideoCall

Organizer and extras
- Stereo FM-radio, Visual radio
- User's profiles (5), temporary profile
- Time, date
- Calculator, currency converter
- Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate results), countdown timer
- Organizer supports different types of events (improved in comparison with other models)
- To-do list
- Dictaphone
- 3GPP Video Streaming
- RealOne Player: RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files reproduction
- Separate player supporting AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, M4A/MP4, RealAudio, WAV, WMA fromats. Buttons to control the player on the body
- Remote controller combined with stereo headset
- Recording sound both from linear input and integrated radio
- Musical profile - smartphone works only as an mp3 player
- Photoalbum - improved Gallery
- Viewer - allows viewing MS Word, MS PowerPoint files on the phone
- MP3 player
- MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
- Loading Java applications
- Games