OK, Nokia has done it. They’ve finally published the phone i want. The N91. Packed in stainless steel (yesh) and not decisevly larger than a 2 cm thick business card, it has, well, basically everything. 3band gsm, b/10 (e)gprs, edge, Wifi 802.11b/g, wcdma (for those returns to Tokyo), two cameras –one for pretty pictures, one for videconferencing– a 4 gigabyte HD storage for music and pictures, and FM visual radio.Oh yes, and no OGG support (damnit), but this being a series 60 phone, i guess it shouldn’t be too long until somebody ports a player for it. Maybe even in time for Q4 when this phone is supposed to hit the street market. Also i didn’t see push-to-talk (PoC/PTT) advertised, but either i haven’t been paying attention or it’s just a software add-on. I hope. It’s only a shame that i can’t pick one up on my way home, which will be on the 10^th of June 2005, landing at around 16:35 on the SAS from Copenhagen. If everything goes well, that is. Still, you can come to the airport to meet me

With a built-in iPod killah (it plays m4p:s too) and being affiliated with Nokia’s N-Gage line, it is obvious that this phone is targeted to the techie spearhead early adopter consumer junkies (like me), not to the serious business user (like i, ahem, should be). Since the N-series are built on s60, there really is no reason why ond couldn’t use it for “serious use” as well. N-series? Well, there are “crippled” versions of the flagship N91. The N90 flips open and you can twist the display half, and a small “outer display” to show who’s calling. It has one 2Mpx camera with optics from Carl Zeiss himself. And you can videoconference over the Edge, and synch or print over bluetooth or usb2 and connect to the office server over vpn. The N70 is basically a multimedia/smart phone for grannies or business users. Capable but unexciting.

Nokia has, as i think i mentioned earlier, gone to bed with Microsoft, so the N91 might well synchronize with Outlook. Of course, i would rather see it synchronize with Linux, which probably will happen soon enough, as there has been Linux tools to talk with Nokia phones for quite some time now. There’s even a tool to talk with PocketPCs on Linux now. What they don’t say is whether the N-series phones will act like external hard drives when plugged in over USB to the computer. Then they would be truly exciting! You’d have a 4 GB portable hard disk with your phone. Nifty.