Roberto Nunes from Forum Nokia Blogs talks about his experience with using the Nokia N91 on a plane.

I really don’t mind about the banning of cell phones on planes. I don’t believe that a cell phone can really mess up with anything on a plane. (If that was true we would see plane crashes every day, or you really believe that everybody remembers to turn them off). And cell phones won´t work anyway in most flights and everybody talking in such a crowded place will be probably awful.

But how about “multimedia computers”. I have a N91 and I really want to use it in flights without having to disguise it. An flight attendant make me turn it off just because she saw the name Nokia in the headphone clip. I tried to explain that I put it offline and now it is only an MP3 player but she insisted. She told me that some phones has a flight mode and even those have to be turned off (what is the point to have a flight mode?).

In another flight I told the flight attendant that my N91 wasn´t a phone, “Nokia just launch a line of MP3 Players”. I show the closed N91 (thus, she could not see the dialing keys) and she let me use it.

As soon as this music phones became popular I will probably have a hard time trying to use them. Why the guy next to me can use his notebook without bothering to turn the WI-FI off and I can´t use a my N91 or a E62?

I wander if consumers or cell phone manufactories can do something about it.

I’ve had similar experiences as well where I’ve been told to turn off my phone and all my attempts to tell the airline crew about the phone’s offline mode were in vain. Ever since then, I use the remote control and I keep the phone in my pocket. People think its a small mp3 player .
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