The N9 happed. Functional units by long-awaited smartphone Nokia MeeGo at last downed in our eager hands, and we have a picture art gallery to give you at a lower place. What we canful say our 1st experience are that we're witnessing a amazing device designed on a AMOLED screen superb performances and a few really responsive. Hold on while we update our impressions aft the break more complete, you will soon be treated to our 1st active video on the Nokia N9.
Update: active videos, as well as live demonstration N9 opportunity to pair Bluetooth devices in the NFC (! Very impressive), can now be found after the break.
The N9 UI, for you will have learned by the product announcement, are Nokia's Harmattan skin atop MeeGo 1.2, which are built around 3 core home views. The central one is your app organizer / launcher, to one side of which you've an notifications and activities section -- which will be populated of phone calls, calendar alerts, and social network updates -- and to the other you get a live app switcher. That 3 are navigable in an carousel fashion, meaning that you are able to keep cycling through all 3 by flicking your finger in one direction. Double-tapping the screen wakes the phone up and then you can unlock them on an swipe in some direction. Similar swipes, starting by one edge of the screen and going to the other, allow you to exit apps into the house screen. What we canful say about altogether this aspects by the interface is that they're done exceedingly well and make the somewhat aged OMAP3630 processor look terrific. Fluid animations is evident throughout, navigation is natural, and these marks an major advance over anything else Nokia has given us on the software front in terms from touch-based UI.
Physically, the N9 feels all but for good for an unit constructed by plastic can do. Nokia devoutly to call up polycarbonate to highlight that this isn't just unspecified plastic, there arena variety by superiority that inspires confidence in it is durability, while keeping your eyes sharp to keep happy and aesthetes . The entire call are built mainly in the outer envelope, which means that the battery isn't user replaceable, and at that place no microSD expansion opportunities, but at least you are able to replace hot-MicroSim (Yes, Micro) cards without restarting the French telephone.
The AMOLED screen light black are very an sight to lay eyes on on wide viewing angle, an curved front glass Gorilla, and a few pretty good (as AMOLED) performance in sunlight. We compared side by side on a LCD screen on Incredible Super S and N9 all over the place clean. The screen are undoubtedly one of the highlights of this great fresh call, but we argue as the intuitive user interface, responsiveness, and eye-catching industrial design are fairly high about the list also. Overall we're very impressed on what Nokia has set up here, although N9 not beg the question why the company chose to quiet its long MeeGo smartphone OS choices. What we saw nowadays was an damn good smartphone on a few nice ideas, which certainly deserves the title track to be Nokia. Or he will do when it is launched later this year.
Whats New?
Make: Nokia Model: N9 Form Factor: Bar Available Colors: Black
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Ion
Weight
Dimension
Memory
Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall Call records Detailed, max 30 days Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory
Display Size
360 x 640 pixels, 4.0 inches
Display Colour
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Connectivity
GPRS Yes EDGE Yes 3G HSDPA, HSUPA WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UPnP technology Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP Infrared port No USB Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support
Entertainment
Yes, 720p@25fps, LED video light Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter Games Yes + downloadable
Camera
8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Messaging
SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
