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.

I’m a big fan and a religious user of the new Nokia browser. Its really great at accurately rendering HTML/XHTML web pages (although RAM consumption could be lower :D). However, I do think that there is still a lot of scope for improvement to get it on par with PC - based browsers. The following is a (short) list of some features that I feel should be a part of the Nokia browser.

1. Enable T9 when typing in a url in the Bookmarks menu: I absolutely hate it when I have to enter a long address by typing it in manually.
2. A set of combo shortcuts (like Ctrl + Enter in Windows) to add commonly used suffixes to urls.
3. The ability to move storage of temporary files to MMC: How many times has it happened that you wanted to download a 5mb audio file through the web page, but couldn’t, as you didn’t have enough free phone memory (even though your mmc might have 1GB free). If it were possible to shift the storage to mmc (like how its possible for Messaging), it’d be great!
4. Storing passwords: I access my university’s wi-fi through the phone all the time and entering my 14 character long password to establish a new session (about 4 times a day, on average) is quite irritating. The fact that I have a long name and the N91’s keypad doesn’t really help. (Seems like this feature is going to be added in FP1!!)

Tegic Communications, the company which holds patents on the popular T9 text input system have now developed XT9, an improved version of the T9 system. The key new features include T9 availability for QWERTY, half-QWERTY and touch-based keypads, easier switching between text modes and auto-error correction. It’d be awesome if Nokia shipped the new E-series models with XT9.

More info here

VIA: Gizmodo

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A very interesting thing to note in the preview, the person said that only those videos compatible with your device are listed in the Video Center. So does that mean that only certain specific youtube videos are going to be viewable on the device? There was no mention of a search feature within the app that would allow users to search and download specific videos. If that’s the case, it sounds more like a youtube videocast, rather than full-fledged youtube support.

VIA: CrunchGear

Nokia does not have RSS feeds for their press releases (and most of their events ;)) to which we can subscribe. Well, I decided to do something about it. So I made my own Nokia Press RSS feed :D.

I used an online service called as FeedYes in order to create a feed from the Nokia Press Page. Then I used Yahoo pipes to filter out the unwanted stuff leaving only the Press releases in the feed.

I’ve published this feed, so everyone can subscribe to it.

Link to feed

I’m trying to create more. Another one that I’ve created is a feed for techeblog’s cell phones category (since techeblog has a single feed, no individual feeds per category). I know a lot of fellow bloggers like Stefan from Ring Nokia refer to techeblog’s article for cell phones.
The feed can be found here.

This is my first attempt at all of this. Hope you guys like it.
If there are any mistakes or problems, leave me a comment or send me an email.