The N91 is one of the best Symbian devices I have owned. Its music capabilities in particular are quite amazing. It has replaced my Creative Zen Touch as the mp3 player of choice.
Surprisingly, I’ve noticed that my actual phone usage has gone down. Its about a 15 min walk to campus for me and I remember taking a lot of photos and shooting whilst walking through the campus when I used my 6620. My hands would immediately reach out into my pocket and the Camera/Video Recorder would turn on and snap! But lately, ever since I started using the N91 as an mp3 player, I’ve almost stopped clicking photos and videos!! My guess is that it s due to the fact that it takes a long time to de-attach the phone (with remote and all) and then re-attach it again.

I’ve also noticed that I no longer spend as much time on the phone as I used to. My BT headset, which I’ve used a lot for calling was just lying around unused for the past two weeks.

To test out my theory, I’m actually going to try to not use my phone as an mp3 player for the next few days.

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 .
Link to Article

www.fring.com

Finally, the developers over at fring have been able to design a working application which lets me make skype calls from my symbian phone using a data connection!

You have to fill out your phone number and a few details when u try to download it. The link for the application is sent to you via sms.

Once you install the app and start it, you are greeted with the tradition loading screen.

Once the app has loaded successfully, you to choose if you want to choose Skype or Google Talk or both.

Select your service and press Next to go to the traditional login page

After logging in, Click on Next and it will take you to your contacts list.

You can then test if everything works by calling the ‘fring test call’ contact.

So far, my experience with this app has been pretty good. It even shows you your entire contact list as a part of your skype contacts, EDIT: so that you can call them using GSM service (not SkypeOut like I had previously mentioned). I’ve used the service over wi-fi with my Nokia N91 and the call quality was good and there were no jitters in the sound. But the call volume was quite low and increasing the volume to the max will only increase the volume by a fractional amount. Other than that, this app is definitely a godsend for me.

Its really major issue and I simply can’t imagine how this went through the testing phone unnoticed. Here’s the problem:

If you have the Messaging Memory set to the N91 HDD, then you can’t use the phone as a Mass storage device.

I recently switched messaging memory over to the N91 HDD as I was running low on phone memory. And since then, I haven’t been able to use Mass Storage at all. It says, “Messaging is currently using the hard disk. Mass Storage mode cannot be activated”. I use a powerbook, so mass storage is the only option for me when I transfer music. So for now, I have to choose between being able to access and save my emails or being able to transfer new music to my phone.
This totally sucks! I really hope someone from nokia reads this and releases a patch.

I just recently got the N91 and so far its been a great phone to use.

And since i’m a mac os user, I had to do some tweaking to get my N91 to work with the powerbook’s isync. Modify the MetaClasses.plist file in the isync package. More information can be found HERE.

Nokia also has a plugin called the Nokia Music Manager that (supposedly) allows for convenient music sync with itunes on the mac. I couldn’t get it to work, but I guess its because iTunes 7 was released recently while this app was developed to work with iTunes 6. You can download it HERE.

The website n91bloggercomm.com has a great list of tips about the N91. Go to their website at n91bloggercomm.com

And if you are a fellow mac os user, you’d like to visit N91mac wordpress blog by MacBuckley from Howardforums. Its a great resource.