Nokia N91

The Nokia N91 is THE phone for Music Lovers and people who know how Good music needs to sound like!!! AMAZING SOUND....gives the Ipod a run for it's money.....

Classy Style... dedicated Music keys...

The Nokia N91 is a good phone to start with, but soon degrades.

The only thing which impresses me about this phone is its mp3 sound. It's much louder than any of the Sony Ericsson phones and is comparable to iPod. However, playing on loud volumes will knock the original earphones for sure. The SOFTWARE is too buggy and freezes when you receive or make outgoing calls or you load some applications. The songs in the music player needs to be refreshed very often..or else it will not play your songs. Since it has an inbuilt hard disk special care needs to be taken. And When you disconnect an active LAN from CONNECTION MANAGER the phone will restart and you lose all your unsaved data.

I got the Nokia N91 phone from an online company (e2save.com) and it's caused me nothing but heartache since receiving it! I realise e2save is a subsiduary of The Carphone Warehouse that sells seconds, but I was assured that all phones are checked and 100% guaranteed, just like a new phone.

It was free on the tariff I chose (hence the value for money rating above) and that is why I got it. And I mean the only reason.

I have always had Sony Ericsson phones, and I wish I hadn't swapped! I know I was unfamiliar with the operating system, so I have no bones with that, but everything else is pants.

To start, the battery lasts about 3 days. I am writing this on a Monday evening. I charged this phone last night (Sunday) and the battery is already down to 2 'bars' from full (7 is totally full). I have talked to a friend for about 10 minutes this morning and sent/received about 10 texts. That is it. The battery will die tonight unless I charge it again now. So that is about 24-30 hours from full, and not a great deal of use out of it.

And this leads me on to charging it. It will not charge unless I turn the MP3 player on. If I just plug in the charger unit (I have to play about with the plug for 5 minutes to get the damn thing to charge anyway) it will charge for about 4 seconds, then stop. Try and think how long it took me to work out the MP3 player needs to be playing before it holds a charge...

Also, if the battery totally dies on you, it is next to impossible to charge it again as it won't charge without the MP3 player working. Try turning on the MP3 player when the battery is dead!

Now the firmware (Built in software). If you try and do something on the phone too fast (write a text for example) the phone freezes. You need to remove the battery and start again to get it going. This would not be too bad if the phone turned on quickly, but it takes about 30 seconds from pushing the power button to being operable. That does not sound much but it is really annoying when you are in a hurry.

Nokia do have a firmware upgrade bit on their website, but this phone is not supported so you are stuck with it!

The screen on this phone is fantastic. The sound quality is superb. The hands-free option is brilliant (you don't need to talk into the phone to program the hands-free dialling thing. The phone works out how to pronounce the name and calls it when you say it, if you see what I mean.) The downside to this trick is there is no option to call either the person's mobile/home/work number. You tell the phone which number to use as a default and that is it. So if you need to call someone at their home and their mobile is the default number, you cannot do it with the hands-free dialling.

This phone also weighs a ton. Nokia say it is because it has a 4gig hard-drive inside, but that is rubbish. My 30gig Ipod weighs a damn site less than this phone.

The design of this phone is great. Real metal (more weight) gives it a great feel (sort of thing) and looks the poodle's privates. The slide action is neat and feels solid, as do the buttons, but the bad points really out-weigh the good points. And, as mentioned above, MY phone is a second, but so many other reviewers have said the same thing about the firmware freezing, the battery life and the size/weight, so my unit is not the exception.

I am now looking on eBay to buy an old O2 phone so I can have one that works well, and one that is preferably a Sony Ericsson.

All in all, I would not wish this phone on anyone. Nokia have come up with some fantastic phones in the past, but this one fails on almost every level.

I am really really disappointed in this phone, I LOVED its appearance however it was very heavy, I have had two N91s in the space of 8 days and both have had to be returned the first one kept switching itself off, and the second would only charge for a minute and then would stop charging, I was going to go for a third attempt, however reading the reviews here, I have decided not too

I like this phone but wouldn't want to rely on it as my only one for the following main reasons:

Battery life and when you're out and about as its heavy/clunky.

Well, got this sexy little Nokia N91 and loved it; the memory was impressive, the menu style, excellent! However then I had to return it within a week of receiving it. It wouldn't charge after the initial charge. Then when I'd make a call, there was a muffled noise in the background.

It would freeze when I'd send a text so I got a replacement phone shortly after and now that's giving me problems and is due to be sent back on Monday. I can't send a text without it taking at least a minute and freezes my phone so I can't do anything. Every time I get a text, I get memory full - please delete data, even though messages are stored on the hard drive.

Not a happy bunny!

It is a great phone, but too many bugs/software faults. Wouldn't recommend it.

I had my Nokia N91 for only a week. At first I was so excited. The design is great, very classy and yet functional. On my third day of usage, it hung. Ok, even the N70 I had, had the same problem. On the 7th day, after transferring all my favorite MP3's and themes, it crashed and could not recover anymore. I manage to start it but a message appeared to my surprise. It reads, "Disc error....".

With its high end price, we should expect a high end performance or quality the least. Not the things you can expect from the N91. I'd rather get me a new K850i from Sony-Ericsson.

The Nokia N91 has 4gb hard drive, good large screen and a 2 MP camera but it's a brick! I got it on contract and when it came through the post, I opened up the box and saw how big it was! I turned it on and had a play for 5 minutes, then put it back in the box ready to send back and exchange for the d900. I must admit I was gutted it was so big! I really would like the phone if it was smaller. Why are Nokia's getting so big?

Please don't buy this phone unless you don't care about the size of it, especially now with the 3 MP camera. Phones are coming out at half the price and more then half the size and weight.

The Nokia N91 is a typical Nokia, very easy to use and also has the ability to multitask, unlike myself!!!!! Occasionally the hard drive will freeze but it is easy to fix by removing battery and selecting refresh on the harddrive menu. Yeah it is a bit on the bulky side but it is a nice size and wight in my opinion, maybe not best suited for people with small hands.