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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Nokia has announced that the N93 multimedia series computer has now been added to the Nokia Software Updater application. This is the announcement made by Nokia on the Discussion Boards over at Nokia Europe:

Dear Updaters

We are pleased to inform you that software updates are once again available for the Nokia N93.

Following extensive product trials and the subsequent release of a new version of the Nokia Software Updater (1.3.0), we are able to reintroduce the N93 into the growing portfolio of supported products.

Please ensure you always use the latest version of the Nokia Software Updater. You can download it from several Nokia websites, for example from
http://www.europe.nokia.com/softwareupdate

We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused while the N93 service was unavailable, and thank you for your patience.

Kind regards
The Nokia Software Updater team

The newer firmware is v20.0.058. Symbian-freak has the change-log up on his site. If you are a Nokia N93 owner, then you should definitely check out the following links.

The Smartphone Show 23 is out, and it contains a review of the Nokia N93i and the HTC S620 a.k.a. T-Mobile Dash

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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.