New Nokia Smartphones - N70, N90, N91

Phone maker Nokia has unveiled a music-enabled mobile that it hopes will put it head to head with Apple’s iPod. The Nokia N91 multimedia handset comes with a 4-gigabyte hard disk, allowing users to store up to 3,000 CD-quality songs on their phone, Nokia says.

Nokia expects to become the largest seller of portable MP3 players this year. It also claims to have outstripped camera manufacturers with the sale of camera phones.

Determined to compete in the photography arena, Nokia has launched the N90, a mobile that comes with a 2 megapixel camera, autofocus, 20x digital zoom and optics designed by Carl Zeiss, a trusted photography brand.

“With its pioneering multi-hinge twist-and-shoot design, we have brought ease-of-use and high quality photography into mobile telephony,” said Juha Putkiranta, senior vice president of multimedia imaging at Nokia.

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USA Today: “The Nokia N91 is comparable in size to Apple’s 4-GB iPod Mini, but there’s a price differential. The Mini is $199, while the N91, to ship in Europe and Asia by the fourth quarter, is expected to sell for around $900 overseas, and $500 in the USA after discounts.”

Mobile Burn: “The N70 shares most of the features of the two higher-end N series handsets, the N90 and N91. This includes a Series 60 user interface, a new photo gallery system with advanced image editing (red-eye reduction, resizing, etc), and the ability to share playlists created for the stereo media player with other users via Bluetooth.

“At 126g in weight, it is truly small enough to be classified as a normally sized phone. But inside that normal package you will find a pair of cameras, one VGA, the other a 2 megapixel unit. Nokia chose to include a hot-swappable RS-MMC card slot for external storage, too.”

The Nokia N90 and N70 are expected to go on sale in Q3 of 2005, with the N91 making its debut at the end of the year.