N9 The New Revolution in global Market-Trend setter in Keypadless SmartPhones
The brand new NOKIA N9 pre-orders through the roof, 64GB batch all already reserved!!!!!
(official pictures)
The new N9 is the first smartphone running on the Linux-based MeeGo operating system, jointly developed by Intel and Nokia. It uses a brand new interface design that uses a lot of swipe based gestures. The homescreen has three panels that you can swipe through. The first is Applications, where you will find all your installed apps. The second is events where you have all your notifications and messages from social networking websites on one screen and third is where you will find all the open applications in a grid of windows. You can pinch and zoom to select the number of applications you see at a time and then tap on one to jump right back to where you left off.
Really its a trend setter:
All the navigation in the UI is done using swipe based gestures. You can just swipe from different sides of the screen to move back and forth between applications or bring forth the list of open applications.
The N9 comes with a new web browser that is based on the Webkit 2 technology and has full support for HTML5. However, it seems there is no Adobe Flash support for now.
In addition, there is also a new version of Ovi Maps on offer, with free turn-by-turn voice navigation. The N9 will also have support for Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus built-in, a first for a phone. The phone will come pre-loaded with Angry Birds Magic (with NFC support), Galaxy on Fire 2 and Real Golf 2011
On the hardware side, Nokia N9 uses a polycarbonate unibody design with a unique outward curved touchscreen display. This is the first phone to not have any key on the front surface and everything is done using the touchscreen and the swipe gestures. The display is 3.9-inch AMOLED with a resolution of 854 x 480. The protective glass is made from Corning's Gorilla Glass.
On the back is an 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, auto-focus (thankfully!) and an LED flash that can also record videos in HD with stereo sound. It will feature touch to focus, exposure lock and continuous auto-focus.
Inside you have a 1GHz TI OMAP3630 SoC with 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU and PowerVR SGX530 GPU along with a generous 1GB of RAM. In the connectivity department you get 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth v2.1, GPS, accelerometer and digital compass. The N9 will require a micro SIM, just like the iPhone 4.
The N9 will be available in three colors, black, pink and blue and in two versions, 16GB and 64GB. Unfortunately, there's no microSD card slot to expand that.
The N9 also comes with an NFC chip built-in. Nokia demonstrated it by pairing the N9 with an NFC-compatible Bluetooth headset simply by touching it to the phone. Touching it again unpaired the headset.
Here are the key specs of the Nokia N9 but remember these numbers tell only half the story:
Nokia N9 at a glance
The premium finish and the outward curved screen are nothing short of outstanding. And the great news is that the good impressions don't end with the exterior. We were pleasantly surprised by the MeeGo Harmattan platform and starting to doubt whether switching to Windows Phone 7 was the only option available to Nokia.
The Nokia N9 at ours
There's a time and place for that discussion, and they are not here and now. We know you are as eager as we are to see what the Nokia N9 is really made of. Join us after the break for the hardware checkup.
The N9 will be available in 16 and 64GB versions, so the 16GB unit is the only option in left in Finland. Whatever stock Nokia is preparing for its Flagship Store in Helsinki, it seems it won’t be enough, because all the available pre-order units will be reserved very soon.
It’s really nice to see the N9 has generated such interest -
something the company has had trouble with for quite some time. Let's
hope Nokia will do well on the MeeGo support too, otherwise it will be
hard to trust it that much again in the future.
The brand new NOKIA N9 pre-orders through the roof, 64GB batch all already reserved!!!!!
(official pictures)
The new N9 is the first smartphone running on the Linux-based MeeGo operating system, jointly developed by Intel and Nokia. It uses a brand new interface design that uses a lot of swipe based gestures. The homescreen has three panels that you can swipe through. The first is Applications, where you will find all your installed apps. The second is events where you have all your notifications and messages from social networking websites on one screen and third is where you will find all the open applications in a grid of windows. You can pinch and zoom to select the number of applications you see at a time and then tap on one to jump right back to where you left off.
Really its a trend setter:
All the navigation in the UI is done using swipe based gestures. You can just swipe from different sides of the screen to move back and forth between applications or bring forth the list of open applications.
The N9 comes with a new web browser that is based on the Webkit 2 technology and has full support for HTML5. However, it seems there is no Adobe Flash support for now.
In addition, there is also a new version of Ovi Maps on offer, with free turn-by-turn voice navigation. The N9 will also have support for Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus built-in, a first for a phone. The phone will come pre-loaded with Angry Birds Magic (with NFC support), Galaxy on Fire 2 and Real Golf 2011
On the hardware side, Nokia N9 uses a polycarbonate unibody design with a unique outward curved touchscreen display. This is the first phone to not have any key on the front surface and everything is done using the touchscreen and the swipe gestures. The display is 3.9-inch AMOLED with a resolution of 854 x 480. The protective glass is made from Corning's Gorilla Glass.
The N9 will be available in three colors, black, pink and blue and in two versions, 16GB and 64GB. Unfortunately, there's no microSD card slot to expand that.
The N9 also comes with an NFC chip built-in. Nokia demonstrated it by pairing the N9 with an NFC-compatible Bluetooth headset simply by touching it to the phone. Touching it again unpaired the headset.
Here are the key specs of the Nokia N9 but remember these numbers tell only half the story:
Nokia N9 at a glance
- General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz, HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
- Form factor: Touchscreen bar phone
- Dimensions: 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76 cc
- Weight: 135 g
- Display: 3.9" 16M-color FWVGA (480 x 854 pixels) AMOLED capacitive touchscreen; Gorilla Glass, anti-glare polarizer, curved display, multi-touch input
- Chipset: 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset
- RAM: 1GB
- OS: MeeGo OS, v1.2 Harmattan
- Memory: 16/64GB storage, no microSD slot
- Camera: 8 megapixel auto-focus camera with face detection, touch focus and geotagging; HD (720p) video recording at 30fps, LED flash, front facing camera, video-calls
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 2.1, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, TV-out, NFC
- Misc: Polycarbonate unibody, built-in accelerometer, proximity sensor, uses microSIM cards
- Price around 640$(16GB) 749$(64GB)
The premium finish and the outward curved screen are nothing short of outstanding. And the great news is that the good impressions don't end with the exterior. We were pleasantly surprised by the MeeGo Harmattan platform and starting to doubt whether switching to Windows Phone 7 was the only option available to Nokia.
The Nokia N9 at ours
There's a time and place for that discussion, and they are not here and now. We know you are as eager as we are to see what the Nokia N9 is really made of. Join us after the break for the hardware checkup.
Nokia N9 gallery
N9 camera samples
We bet many of you are curious what the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 camera is capable of. Well, you can stop searching for leaked camera samples right now, Nokia has just released untouched official ones.
Two days ago when Damian Dinning discussed the N9 camera sensor and today we finally get to see what it's really capable of. So no more talking, here go the photos.
Nokia N9 camera samples (widescreen)
As it turns out the N9 camera produces really nice shots with lots of resolved detail and nice lively colors. The effects of the large aperture (f/2.2) lens are easy to spot in the shallow depth of field. This makes it easier (as far as easy is at all applicable to cameraphones) to separate the focused objects from the background.
The Nokia N9 processing seems really mature, though it cannot completely make up for the smaller (compared to the N8) sensor. For example the N9 doesn't render out-of-focus areas as attractively as its Symbian sibling.
Still the published N9 camera samples are pretty good even though they are taken with pre-release hardware and software. So the MeeGo smartphone will probably be end up a viable option for all cameraphone lovers.
You can find some more camera samples taken with the Nokia N9 right here.
Updated on sep-17-11
The brand new NOKIA N9 pre-orders through the roof, 64GB batch all already reserved!!!!!
Nokia's Flagship Store in Helsinki, Finland has started taking pre-orders for the MeeGo-based Nokia N9. It’s been just three days, but all available pre-orders for the 64GB N9 version are already reserved.Two days ago when Damian Dinning discussed the N9 camera sensor and today we finally get to see what it's really capable of. So no more talking, here go the photos.
Nokia N9 camera samples (widescreen)
As it turns out the N9 camera produces really nice shots with lots of resolved detail and nice lively colors. The effects of the large aperture (f/2.2) lens are easy to spot in the shallow depth of field. This makes it easier (as far as easy is at all applicable to cameraphones) to separate the focused objects from the background.
The Nokia N9 processing seems really mature, though it cannot completely make up for the smaller (compared to the N8) sensor. For example the N9 doesn't render out-of-focus areas as attractively as its Symbian sibling.
Still the published N9 camera samples are pretty good even though they are taken with pre-release hardware and software. So the MeeGo smartphone will probably be end up a viable option for all cameraphone lovers.
You can find some more camera samples taken with the Nokia N9 right here.
Updated on sep-17-11
The brand new NOKIA N9 pre-orders through the roof, 64GB batch all already reserved!!!!!
The N9 will be available in 16 and 64GB versions, so the 16GB unit is the only option in left in Finland. Whatever stock Nokia is preparing for its Flagship Store in Helsinki, it seems it won’t be enough, because all the available pre-order units will be reserved very soon.
It’s really nice to see the N9 has generated such interest -
something the company has had trouble with for quite some time. Let's
hope Nokia will do well on the MeeGo support too, otherwise it will be
hard to trust it that much again in the future.
Info: GSMarena.com
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