The Nokia N9 - with MeeGo & Nokia Connection 2011

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Some (apparently official) renders of this have leaked today. I like it, but not in pink. :p

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GSMArena said:
The Nokia N9 is said to be running MeeGo and the icons look very much like those on the latest Symbian Anna. Other alleged key specifications include a 4-inch FWVGA capacitive touchscreen, sporting a resolution of 854x480 pixels, 64GB of storage, HDMI-out and a MicroSIM card slot, which we are not really sure about.

Of course, the main piece of the Nokia N9 is the camera. Although recent prototype images have suggested 8MP auto-focus camera with dual LED flash on the back, we tend to believe Nokia will go with the more advanced 12MP sensor with 28mm wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens.
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http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n9_render_images_show_up_look_sexy_as_hell-news-2801.php

I wonder if it will be any good. We'll find out soon at Nokia's Singapore event that starts imminently.

There might be lots of other interesting goodies from the event, too.
 
Who knows with Nokia... It could just be a 4" N8 replacement running Symbian Anna. Isn't the N950 a meego/qwerty limited edition dev phone?

Hopefully they'll show off a WP7 handset.
 
sarge78 said:
Who knows with Nokia... It could just be a 4" N8 replacement running Symbian Anna.
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It's not. It's a MeeGo 1.2 device.

Isn't the N950 a meego/qwerty limited edition dev phone?
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Yes. Not exactly sure what the distinction is between a normal MeeGo phone and a dev phone. MeeGo isn't exactly locked down.
 
Just been watching the videos Engadget have up for the N9 and it looks like a fantastic piece of kit, and I like the look of the OS too. If only Nokia had put more into MeeGo earlier I think it could have been a real contender. The hardware specs for the phone are very midrange in comparison to Android handsets so it'll be interesting to see where they price it, and also how much ongoing support they're going to give the phone. I may be tempted to give this a go when it comes out later this year.

Screen: 3.9" AMOLED 854x480
RAM: 1GB
Internal Storage: 16GB or 64GB
CPU: OMAP3630 @ 1Ghz
GPU: PowerVR SGX530
Radios: quad-band GSM and penta-band WCDMA, Bluetooth 2.1, NFC, GPS, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi
Camera: 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus sensor, wide-angle lens F2.2
Body: Polycarbonate 116.45mm x 61.2mm x 7.6-12.1mm, 135 grams
Battery Life: up to 50 hours (music), 4.5 hours (720p video), 7-11 hours talk time
OS: MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan
 
I was under the impression that although they haven't completely killed off MeeGo that they were stopping further development.

This phone is great news and i'd love it to be a real success. That would give Microsoft a bit of a headache.
 
I've just been looking at all the material Nokia have put up on swipe.nokia.com about the N9 and they could be onto something here. The experience they're offering looks superior to anything else out there at the moment, the tightly coupled integration of online services even looks better than webOS.
And on the hardware side, they are making a handset that should be hard wearing but cheap to produce, buying and crafting polycarbonate has to be a lot cheaper than multi piece metal construction while maintaing rigidity.
The innards I mentioned above are mid to upper mid range compared to current android handsets, but again that means they should be cheap for Nokia to buy and as long as they run the software properly (nice to see a decent amount of RAM included) it's not overly important.

So they have a winning experience (IMO) and a potentially cheap to manufacture handset, the Nokia name still has a lot of kudos, in Europe especially, it's all going to depend on the pricing and marketing and frankly I think they should have tried to release it now. Selling the social aspect of their phone would be easier in the Summer when people can relate better to the social ideas and you can see this if you watch the videos on the N9 site.

It'll also be interesting to see how this is treated compared to the WP7 phones they're looking to release.
 
That multitasking screen is fab - reminds me of expose/spaces. The only concern I would have is lack of apps for it.

Honestly, this may well be worth a look depending of course on what the iPhone 5 brings to the table in September....
 
Porting apps between Symbian and MeeGo is trivial. Even desktop Qt apps aren't massively hard to port.

I doubt it'll ever seen iOS levels of apps but there should be a few out there.
 
Haven't they already dropped Meego in Feb of this year in favour of WP7?
So essentially you'd be investing in a handset that has zero future.

Handset looks superb, hardware looks great but its going to go nowhere imo because of Nokia's current strategy which I'm failing to understand.

They are either WP7 or they are not, releasing yet another handset with yet another dead OS on it is suicide.

And they still failed to show off a WP7 phone yesterday. By the time they get their 1st 1ghz WP7 to market, Samsung / HTC will be on Tegra 3 and developing quad core phones.
 
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One last big hurrah to see if Meego can be the 'disruptive platform' everyone talks(ed) about? They won't be pinning any real commercial success on the N9, that'll come with WP7 hardware/marketing.

If the Meego ecosystem/hardware gains traction in the market I'm sure they'll move quickly to keep it rolling. As bam0 pointed out it's probably quite a cheap phone to make (somewhere between the Motorola Defy and Milestone 2 for cost)

Tunney said:
Yes. Not exactly sure what the distinction is between a normal MeeGo phone and a dev phone. MeeGo isn't exactly locked down.
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I thought the N950 was a 'direct from Nokia' only handset (After networks rejected the hinge design last year? + Look what happened to the Milestone 2 in Europe) and will probably come without the restrictive N9 skin/mods (or you'll be able to get into the classic Meego desktop view)

I like it, shame the internals are a year old... again... (Defiantly would've considered one with an OMAP4 or similar)
 
Deku said:
That multitasking screen is fab - reminds me of expose/spaces. The only concern I would have is lack of apps for it.

Honestly, this may well be worth a look depending of course on what the iPhone 5 brings to the table in September....
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The majority of apps or unnecessary and some are just utter trite.

I can't think any important apps, that don't already come with the OS. I'm sure someone will put me right though ;-)

Satnav, calender, notes, alarm, messaging, email, media player, calculator, document viewer, sound recorder etc.. Symbian S60 came with all those (bar maps which was a download)

most of the stuff that I download for my Android, gets deleted, or sits dormant.
 
englishpremier said:
The majority of apps or unnecessary and some are just utter trite.

I can't think any important apps, that don't already come with the OS. I'm sure someone will put me right though ;-)

Satnav, calender, notes, alarm, messaging, email, media player, calculator, document viewer, sound recorder etc.. Symbian S60 came with all those (bar maps which was a download)

most of the stuff that I download for my Android, gets deleted, or sits dormant.
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Granted you are pretty much spot on here.

I think the majority of app purchases are made during the "honeymoon period" of getting a new phone. In saying that I couldn't live without the Sky News App and eBay app on my iphone.
 
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I've never, ever been a fan of Nokia but I actually really like this. The UI is nice and minimalistic and the hardware looks fresh and stylish. It's just a shame that they didn't release it a few years ago.
 
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