Nokia N9 deals & review
The Nokia N9 is reminiscent of a giant iPod Nano, which is ironic considering that it’s a MeeGo phone built to compete with Apple's products.
Entirely touchscreen, apart from a power button and volume controller on the side, the N9 compels you to do everything by touch. Armed with an 8-megapixel camera and 720 dpi video recorder, the N9 even comes with a front camera, making it possible to video chat with all your friends.
With the increasing popularity of Android and the iPhone Nokia has been keen to move away from Symbian which, while still being the most used phone OS globally, is losing out to its more glamorous competitors. Nokia had started developing a new system, MeeGo, before its bosses signed an agreement with Microsoft to make the bulk of future Nokia handsets run on Windows Phone 7.
The N9 has a very distinctive look to it, with a colourful plastic body and glass screen. Although there is a power button and volume controller on the side of the N9, the phone features no buttons on its front face. Instead, all interaction with the phone is performed through touchscreen gestures.
Like the earlier N8, the Nokia N9 features a fantastic camera, this time in the form of an 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. This camera includes a dual LED flash, touch focus and 720p video recording and a secondary camera is also available for video calling.
While the N9 is the first Nokia phone to run on MeeGo, there is a distinct possibility that it will also be the last. MeeGo is an excellent operating system and it would be a shame if this is the only MeeGo phone to see the light of day. Such an eventuality may be one of the biggest drawbacks of the N9 as the phone would suffer from a low amount of app development and future support.
Latest Nokia N9 News
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The unique, touch smartphone from Nokia is expected to launch in 2011 so we thought we’d take a closer look at all the N9 has to offer. Finally introduced last month, the Nokia N9 has the vague release date of “later this year”. But never mind, judging by the look of it, it’ll be worth the wait. ...
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The much-rumoured, much-hyped and long, long awaited Nokia N9 has finally gone official and will be finding its way to stores “later this year”. Rumours of the Nokia N9 first began to surface and spread around the internet way back in the first half of last year and since then we’ve heard a hundre...
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