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Nokia N9 now shipping, price starts at Php28.5k

Nokia has just posted a press release stating that the Meego-powered Nokia N9 has started shipping to stores and customers who pre-ordered it. While the shipments does not yet include the Philippines, we’re hoping it will be a matter of weeks (if not a month) before we’d see the N9 hitting local stores.


We got a good look at the Nokia N9 back in June during its announcement in Singapore. See our coverage here.

Nokia N9
3.9-inch AMOLED screen @ 854×480 pixels
ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3630 1.0 GHz
PowerVR SGX530
1024MB RAM
16GB and 64GB internal storage
Bluetooth 2.1
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
3G/HSDPA 14.4Mbps
Near Field Communication (NFC)
8MP autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics (f/2.2 aperture)
720p HD video recording @ 30fps with stereo sound
2 x LED flash
2nd front-facing camera for video calls
1450mAh battery
Meego 1.2 Harmattan

There are two variants of the Nokia N9 — the 16GB is priced at 480 euros (~Php28,500) and a 64GB variant at 560 euros (~Php33,000). Note though that these prices are before taxes and subsidies so the landed price in the Philippines will vary, give or take Php2k.

{source: Nokia PR}

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

53 Responses

  1. Avatar for ronald ronald says:

    I bought mine yesterday in sm city annex bldg. I got the white 64GB for P27,700.

  2. Avatar for Queency Queency says:

    still waiting for this phone. Uh!

  3. Avatar for Skye03 Skye03 says:

    No matter what other people would say with this phone and it’s platform, I really fell in love with just how fast it is on that sexy hardware, even though it has older internals compared to iPhone/android devices, pero just look at that, ang bilis ang intuitive grabe. Tsaka for sure someone out there would port android apps since it’s linux based din naman ;) . And Tizen is also being develop so I think it’s not doomed after all ayt?

  4. Avatar for jalapenio jalapenio says:

    Like many, I’ve been keeping tabs on the progress of the N9. Today, I dropped by at Nokia MOA and asked the sales rep regarding the lauch of Nokia N9 in the Philippines. As it turns out, we all have to wait until January of next year. This is because of the “market by market” approach of the sale of N9.
    It’s quite disappointing since all of our neighbours in SEA are getting it before the year ends.

    • Avatar for Joanne Joanne says:

      Wah! Next year? Next year pa? Ngayon lang ako ngka-gusto ng ganito sa isang cellphone. Hindi ako ganito ka-enamored sa iPhone or sa Android devices… Wah grabe torture! N9!!!

  5. Avatar for Louie Louie says:

    Hi Sir Yuga:

    Is it true that N9 is not anymore coming to the Philippines because of lack of product codes???
    I saw this posted on Facebook by the Nokia N8 Philippine User page. Please confirm…

    This is such a disapointment knowing that Meego Harmattan looks like a very promising OS even though Meego is already dead.

  6. Avatar for tfnow02 tfnow02 says:

    Wow! Nokia N9 pinag-uusapan tapos mapupunta sa Android o Apple. Anong klaseng magulang ba meron ang mga ito? Nakakahiyang isipin na ang mga Pinoy ngayon eh parang di na Pinoy. Halos lahat ng attitude eh yung tipong makahirit lang. Haaayyyy…

  7. Avatar for Sixel Sixel says:

    How is android “buggy” exactly? Give me a detailed explanation.

  8. Avatar for Meltemi Meltemi says:

    The Nokia N9 is the first phone in the world to not care about the OS. Some people argue that the N9 is Meego but the real OS is Harmattan. It does not really matter folks. You see, Nokia’s user interface will be universal in all products as evidenced by Atasahaari and Elop’s hints. Nokia will stick to Swipe Qt. No matter what the OS is, be it Symbian Anna, Belle, Rama or Harmattan or Windows Phone, the UI will be Swipe Qt. Get? There is a huge hush hush project in Nokia now coding the essential apps to Qt as this will be channeled down to the feature phones via the Meltemi variant of Nokia’s Linux OS. Kasi nga proof eto na Nokia is ready to stick with Qt and Swipe.

    So there. Just use another perspective when choosing a phone. OS is the sub-layer, Qt is the UI. So just see the Nokia N9 as the flagship Swipe Qt phone. 33k for 64 gb is really reasonable. Have you ever heard that the iPhone is selling at 35k for 16gb?

    Nokia has the simplest UI. Integrated apps. No need to go to twitter, fb, email or sms separately. They are all summarised in the events view. No need to buy a wifi hotspot as Nokia N9 is one. The Nokia N9 browser is faster than the desktop version of google chrome and firefox (I think). If your really have the moolah for this, this i think is a lot better that any flagship phone out there. A lot better than my Galaxy S 2.

    I have to agree. As much I love my Android, it gets really buggy. I have this on pre-order. I am thinking of this as my everyday phone and putting my SGS2 on sale sa greenhills.

  9. Avatar for jonaflormicfren jonaflormicfren says:

    Wow, this is cool and great, I like it..

  10. the o.s. is maemo/meego, developers platform on apps will be based on QT so this phone is not dead, lots of QT apps on the nokia store

  11. Avatar for Kikokix Kikokix says:

    Away-away na naman ang mga fanboys. Tsk, when will they ever learn.

    People have the right to choose which device/ OS suits their needs. If you have the money to burn and you like the gadget you’re buying then go for it sunshine!

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