Nokia N91 Music Phone Delayed Due to DRM February 23, 2006
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Moconews is reporting that Nokia’s high-end N91 phone—the hefty, metal model with a built-in 4GB hard disk—has been pushed back to the third quarter of 2006, despite originally being scheduled to ship around last Christmas. The hangup? Implementing Microsoft’s Windows Media DRM, which for unstated reasons has proven more difficult for Nokia to include than they first anticipated.
There’s also mention that the bundled Symtella peer-to-peer file sharing software might not be included after all. The Gnutella-based P2P software would have allowed Nokia N91 owners to share files via the phone’s built-in Wi-Fi, but now Nokia’s spokesperson is said to be “talking guardedly about sharing N91 playlists by Bluetooth or MMS.”
Almost a year late and short features. Not good for a phone announced in April of ‘05.
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Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
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There is no new information from Nokia on a further delay of the N91. The DRM announcement was aimed to clear confusions over the reasons for the original delay. The recent announcement of FCC approval and Bluetooth approval means that N91 will be released in the near future.
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Thanks for shedding some light on the subject. I remember reading about the N91 for the first time back in June 2005, in a copy of Zoo. It was, quite simply, the gadget I'd been waiting for all these years - a mobile phone, Blackberry, iPod and web browser all in one.
But now it looks like it won't be out until the autumn. So I can't promise I'll wait for it if another manufacturer can beat Nokia to the punch and get out a mobile phone that has a decent (~5GB) MP3 player. Surely there must be a crop of these due out by now? How long does it take to develop these bloody gadgets?
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