The Nokia N9 is Nokia's first phone with MeeGo
It features a curved 3.9-inch AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass. The N9 is unique as it doesn't have any buttons on the
front, so all navigation is handled with virtual buttons and gestures in MeeGo. Under the hood, a 1GHz TI OMAP3630 CPU
matched with PowerVRSGX530 GPU and 1GB of RAM, powers the platform. On the back, there is an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss
wide-angly auto-focus camera capable of capturing 720p videos.
The phone ships with Nokia Maps supporting online navigation and features NFC, Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus. The
N9 will be sold in 16GB and 64GB varieties.
The folks at Nokia conversations has published a few photo samples taken with the Nokia N9
camera. Head over to
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Nokia N9 16GB 3G Wifi GPS NFC GSM Unlocked MeeGo Touchscreen
Email app is also very polished with very good UI. They have partial threading support and you can have
bookmarks/favorites to various folders, which is nice. It has a great range of syncing options like "Frequency of
Email Checking", "Active Syncing during the day and turn off syncing after 5pm" and all sort of stuff. One feature
I really wish they had was to have custom sounds for each Inbox/Folder, like the Gmail app on Android. Overall, I'm
very satisfied with the Email client, although my Android phone has the best Gmail experience.
GPS and Navigation:
The N9 comes with two apps, Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive. They both at the very best are OK. Google Maps on the
Android has the best navigation features and I really wish the N9 had Google Maps/Navigation. But there are some
advantages with Nokia's navigation systems. *OFFLINE MAPS*. Yes, you can download Maps offline and use them
without an active Internet connection. This is a huge benefit if you are travelling abroad or on data roaming
and will save you a lot of money. The Maps application is very basic and the Drive application is sometimes glitchy.
It has trouble finding my exact location when I turn it on while I am driving. But once it found your location, it
works very well. Also, the Turn-by-Turn instructions are kinda , hmm.. weird since it doesn't tell you the street
names/road numbers. It only gives instructions like "Make Left here, Make Right here, Drive for a mile on this
road". Which won't be such a problem on regular roads, but sometimes on the freeways it might be a little more
helpful if it spells out the names. Another cool thing is, it has various accents & languages. I have the European
English accent and it feels like Mrs. Doubtfire is giving me instructions ;)
Browser:
The Web Browser on the N9 is WebKit based and it has many HTML5 & CSS features. It can also share the Geolocation.
Although when I try to open Google, it gives me the dumbphone version instead of the smartphone version. But
on other sites, the Web browser worked pretty good and like I said, you can subscribe directly to the RSS feeds
in the page, right from the browser. The browser plays H264 videos from Youtube without any issues, but I had
some hiccups on other sites like Engadget,The Verge etc., Nokia is aware of these issues and promised to fix them in
the next software update. It doesn't have Flash, which isn't an issue for me at all. I wish the browser is bit
better, like Mobile Safari. Still, Android has the worst browsing experience and the N9 browser feels much better
than that. (Weird, Google has the best Desktop Browser, but the worst mobile browser). By rwb
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Nokia N9 Unlocked GSM Phone with 64 GB Internal Memory--International Version
Great stuff:
- top-notch design -- N9 looks amazingly good (to me it looks better than newer iPhones)
- excellent manufacturing quality
- excellent phone component (better than iPhone with AT&T; I'm getting a very good reception in places where iPhone repeatedly failed with AT&T network)
- works with both AT&T and T Mobile
- superior swipe technology (also better than on Nokia Win platform too)
- integrated social networks
- 64 GB
- much more ROM for processing apps (I was running out of ROM on N8 with maybe a dozen or so themes and maybe a dozen of downloaded apps)
- excellently implemented *Dashboard* concept that shows important stuff (appointments, missed phone calls, new emails, etc)
Good stuff:
- solid camera (but N8 was better in that respect and so is newer iPhone)
- easy setup
- easy email setup if you have a GMAIL account(s) (for private Hotmail use N9's Exchange server setup and it works great since MS put the Active sync))
- WiFi has a solid range
- new Linux-based MeeGo OS is pretty good ... even excellent (but I think most people will find iOS and Android either easier or more intuitive)
- over-the-air or cloud sync works very well (and better be since Nokia is shutting down some services and N9 is incompatible with Nokia Suite)
- battery life seems to be OK (about same as an average iPhone with a few power saving enabled and the BT off). By Rohit Garewal |