So now it’s clear why Nokia went for WP7 instead of Android — because they’re still banking on the Meego OS and the Nokia N9 is a testament that they can still kick ass.
The Nokia N9 is an impressive handset — both inside and out. The design is similar to what they did with the Nokia N8 but this time, there are no buttons on the screen. The AMOLED display is brilliant and the 3.9-inch glass somewhat curves towards the edge to give it a continuous feel.
The unibody is made up of polycarbonate which makes it light but tough at the same time. The material is already colored from production so it’s not just coated by inherent to the body (if you scratch it, the inherent color remains). You still feel that heft, probably due to the massive glass display and it’s relatively thin too — starts at 7.6 on the edges going to 12.1mm in the center.
The specs is the best one Nokia has pushed out their doors:
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
The Meego 1.2 OS has been re-built to give it a fresh UI. I tried it on the N900 before and didn’t liked it very much. However, the Meego 1.2 OS on the Nokia N9 showed a whole lot of improvements. With the ARM Cortex-A8 processor and generous 1GB of internal RAM, the UI is very snappy and has a lot of tricks and nice, smooth transition effects up its sleeve.
In it’s true multi-tasking capability, you can switch between applications in a single swipe or load pages and pages on the browser at the background while doing something else. You can download thousands of apps and games straight from Ovi store and use them with the N9.
The Near Field Communication (NFC) works flawlessly when we tested it out with Nokia’s portable speakers and headsets (both have NFC support as well) so you ca use the technology right off the bat.
The handset comes in 3 colors — black, blue and pink. One thing that people might find as a bit of a disadvantage is that the 1450mAh Li-Ion battery is built-in and not user-replaceable, just like what they did with the N8.
Nokia has not specified the exact date nor the suggested retail price but promises the N9 will be out before end of the year. I’m guessing it will be the same SRP as the N90 when it first came out or probably near the 23k price of the N8.
Update: A Nokia rep indicated in one of the interviews after the event that the Nokia N9 will have a suggested retail price of $660 (Php29k) for the 16GB and $749 (Php33k) for the 64GB.
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ano pahiya ka kay Yuga?bago ka kase mag react magbasa ka!…tama nga lng pangalan mo..tae!
Is that a front facing camera?
late na to dapat las year pa to nilabas dual core na labanan ngayon… sayang to…,
Hindi guarantee ang Dual Core or Quad Core na maging super fast ang Phone me. No matter how many cores your mobile phone, always remember it is still a mobile phone and not a super computer.
Even a super power personal computer with lots of core will just execute 1 processor at a time. Don’t get fooled of the Core promises. There has never been invented a personal computer that can execute simultaneous processor at a time.
The Java Virtual Machine can emulate Multi-threading, but come on, processors will still execute one at a time.
Lets look at the Dual Core Mobile Phone. Is the Mobile phone optimized to carry dual core processors? The answer is BIG NO. It is never a guarantee that your mobile phone can execute as twice a possible instructions at a time.
Let us always remember that we are dealing with a mobile phone and this dual core promise is just a form of a deceit.
The Nokia Engineers and Mobile Developers are brilliant and wise enough not to follow the Dual Core Mobile Phones, because this is a complete nonsense. The mobile phone can never and will never utilize 100% the dual core processors.
It is good to be familiar with the Operating System, not just theoretical knowledge that is based on google or wikipedia. If you tried developing or have extensive knowledge with experience on system software development like developing an operating system, you will be amazed what people is talking about. Matching software with this out of this world specs of mobile phones.
I respect the Finn Developers and Engineers because they developed mobiles phones as what mobile phones or smartphone should be. They are really developers and I salute them! A good operating system can run even in the most minimum hardware requirement! As much as the quality of developers today are degrading, I am glad the Finn keeps the best Developers and Engineers in the world!
I agree, after seeing video demos about the N9’s UI, it’s more fluid compared to some dual core android phones.
I third the motion. Very well counter argument. :)
Thank you! Akala ko lahat ng pinoy naloko na naman sa dual-core craze ng android. Educate yourself people! More is not always better. Try pinch and zoom sa N8 and SGS2 or sa Atrix. N8 is the winner hands down kasi may GPU. Better allocation of processing power! Can android swap in between screens with a video running on one screen while transitioning? HELL NO!
if they are so brilliant and smart why are they falling so behind on the smartphone category?your telling people that dual core phones are not running on such cores,who you fooling with?maybe the 3 of you who agreed or yourself die hard Nokia fan…you mean to tell me every one is fooling around even Intel when they say that they are promoting dual core processor on the PC cpu’s are not telling the truth?…then people should have complained that the dual core phone is not true,they should have sued HTC,SAMSUNG,LG and other manufacturer,but there’s none so it’s your dumb imagination that tell these Nokia fans that dual core is not true…fool yourself..who are you the geeks of all geeks to be the only one who knows this isn’t true? wake up you fool! Nokia is for people who can’t afford the expensive smartphone’s…maybe you haven’t had a dual core phone? i have mine and comparing it with my previous 1ghz phone it’s way too fast….and nokia..it’s like a caveman….
ganun? ok wala namang kokontra sayo kung saan ka masaya doon ka.
oh yeah i am…
He’s just implying that n9 lacking a dual core isn’t a deal breaker. And he’s not saying that dual cores are not true, but rather not using all cores at the same time, when you don’t use something, it becomes a waste(though i’m not saying he’s true, i actually know little about such geeky things.) And may i add that i personally think that dualcores are unnecessary for meego, based on what meego are supposed and can do(CURRENTLY at least).
Maybe you noticed the increased performance of dual core because you are using android. Android has so much to improve on running everything fast on its 1ghz state, so it’s not easy to figure out why dual cores made so much sense to you.
However, after seeing how fast this n9 runs on an aging cpu, i can’t even imagine why i even need a dual core(aside from my ‘desire’ of being up-to-date with the latest tech ;), or be it that nokia has given this beautiful piece of hardware a dual core, then how unimaginably fast it can be? Will it fly then? I mean literally., fly
I don’t want to over expect about this though. Still some proof is needed if meego is not just ios/wp7 fast UI-wise. In running resource extensive applications at the same time, will it Lag?
But God isn’t N9 beautiful? I will not be surprised if someone buy it based on looks alone. You know, the less geeky of people, they’ll surely love this!
^^This and those who agrees with is a complete sense of idiocy. You probably never even bothered to push your anything and probably the only thing your doing on your computer and phone is reading some lousy letters and browsing thus youre fabricating ideals that multi-core doesn’t matter.
You can swallow your arrogance about your so called knowledge in operating system and software. You’re saying that…..
“Even a super power personal computer with lots of core will just execute 1 processor at a time. Don’t get fooled of the Core promises.”
Fool.You’re saying that multi-cores are hoax and couldn’t promise anything? Multi-threading? Multi-threaded applications take advantage of multi-core processors by running multiple threads simultaneously. If you are running four threads simultaneously on a processor with four cores you get four times as much work done per time unit.
Now lets go to your “dual core mobile are deceit” thing. Now I was wondering if you could answer my questions?
1. Are these supposedly “benchmark apps” testing phones limitations all lies? Whats the point of writing them anyway when I could just create lies by myself?
2. Are Google engineers not capable of bringing us an OS that could utilize two cores? The last time I saw someone trying to run Android Honeycomb on a single core, it never worked.
Your biggest FAIL.
“The Nokia Engineers and Mobile Developers are brilliant and wise enough not to follow the Dual Core Mobile Phones, because this is a complete nonsense. The mobile phone can never and will never utilize 100% the dual core processors.
I respect the Finn Developers and Engineers because they developed mobiles phones as what mobile phones or smartphone should be. They are really developers and I salute them!”
News: Nokia will run WinMobile on their next phone. Their engineers could never figure it how their fossil symbian will run on a newer market of dual cores…and heres a simple “brain meter” If they are smart and inoovative enough, let their plunging market shares prove it.
You remind me of those folks who where laughing when Intel announced it will try to develop dual cores and quad cores in the future.
Hoy poota ka! Leche kang epal ka. Who even said the dual-core processing power in computers is not true? It just does not apply to crapdroid. If crapdroid were so ready to take advantage of the dual-core tech in its Linux wannabe OS on top of a Dalvik Virtual Machine, why o why does it limit its multitasking apps? Why o why does it take centuries to load the camera? Why o why does my SGS2 crash now and then? Leche! Sa mga epal saying Nokia is for those who can not afford to buy. Hello! Vertu! Eat that bitches! Qt is the future. Hail MeeGod!
Because they are dual freaks! nyahahaha! As long na may dual, “maganda at IN” na sa kanila! It simply doubles the price for nothing! Well dual cores are certainly the luxury phones for the Class D citizens! Tama ka Lankku, if talagang mga sosyal klaymer sila, bibili sila ng Vertu Cobra Signature! Para ma pasok sila sa Class A! nyahahaha! How pathetic and idiots those people who puts the smartphones on the same level as a desktop computer?! nyahahaha! Bili nalang kayo ng Mac Book, lagyan nyo ng sim card! nyahahahaha! Kurt explains it well but the dual-idiots and android-freaks simply don’t want to understand it!
Simple lang naman yan eh. Nakikita ang bilis ng takbo ng kotse sa pag papapaandar neto, hindi sa daldalan. Nalalaman kung me tulo kayo sa pagsusuri ng mga taong me kinalaman sa medisina. Sa cellphone? napakadali naman buksan ang mga to ant butingtingin para makita natin ang benchmarks.
Its not hard to dissect these two and look whats inside. There are lots of ways to bench benchmark it. Show us something proving dual core versus single is nonsense in phones especially to the now popular phone “GAMING” area. Benchmarks please? For an average phone user (talk and text) naturally they wont notice any difference. But for those pushing their phones to its limits, it will make the difference.
Vertu? Vertu Cobra Signature!? Kala ko usapan ng pamahalan to bakit barya barya ang mga sinsabi nyo? Nagyabang pa kayo eh mura naman.
Pera:
Stuart Hughes Diamond (ay pon) – 8 million
Gold striker (ay pon) – 3.2 million
Barya:
Vertu Signature Cobra (pookia) – 310K
sabi naman tong isa ring bobo…
“How pathetic and idiots those people who puts the smartphones on the same level as a desktop computer?! nyahahaha! Bili nalang kayo ng Mac Book, lagyan nyo ng sim card! ”
Meron ng ganyan. Ipad.
*dual core processors are tested using many software. hindi puro “satsat”!
*and based from the tests conducted on dual cores, it runs extremely faster than a single core device; in browsing, gaming, video editing and others.
Dual Core Processor’s Logic:
-when you are downloading something from the net. it is using one core.
-if you watch a movie, it will use the other core, its that simple!
-i’m an engineer, i know these stuffs
*also dual cores need software that optimize dual cores. as of now, few software are able to utilize a dual core mobile phone. but in the near future, more and more software will support dual core phones. this is inevitable, this is the future
*but it all comes to user preference. if u r ok with a single core phone then go for it. if you like playing HD games or multitask frequently then dual core phones is better.
Hoy poota ka kang gaya-gayang siraulo kang baliw kag matha faka! Sino ba nagsabing Vertu is the most expensive? I was proving a point that Nokia is not just for those who cannot afford ‘expensive’ smartphones.
Baliw kang siraulo kang bete noire! Imbecile!
Flash news: HTC Sensation is in a grip–a death grip. Pati problema ginagaya ang iPhone. Somebody teach HTC the meaning of UNIBODY!
good comeback for nokia! atlast may 1ghz na phone na sila and its not the lame symbian.
late na sa party ang phone na to, pero sa daming sleeping nokia fanboys, alam ko magigising sila. haha.. this has the potential to bring nokia back to the top. sana lang maupdate nila at lagyan na ng adobe flash. yun nga ang panglaban ng n900 dati. the apps, well kung maganda ang outcome susunod ang growth ng apps.
maganda sana kung full focus ang nokia dito. sa android kasi sa sobrang dami ng oem, nagkakafragmentation. atleast sa nokia they have the ability to make the OS optimized for the hardware. And sana may midrange nito. I’m quite excited for this venture of nokia!!
Oh No! the front facing camera is lost? tsk tsk sayang wala tuloy support ng videocall… ganda pa naman sana!
meron front-facing camera, nakalagay sa post sa taas. confirmed then sa gsmarena.com :)
it’s located at the bottom right of the phone…
Patay! Fat angle ko pa naman un, hehehehe. Sana sa itaas na lang, para pampapayat, hehehe.
ako din sayang type ko pa naman, pwede kayang baliktarin hehe
whatta sexy phone! sayang late sa party ang nokia with their meego pero i hope maging hit to para madaming choices ang mga consumers!
magpaparaffle ka po niyan? :))
I’m betting that this is the make or break phone for the Meego platform. If this phone makes it good, then there will be high hopes on Nokia’s own OS, however, if this fails, then i’m guessing it will be goodbye Meego for Nokia.
Having that in mind, then Nokia should shove everything it can onto it. Hindi na pwede iyung lumang style nila na limited and tingi-tingi features lang on the phone regardless if the phone can handle more than it currently has.
Having more options will always benefit the consumers. Making the mobile OS industry into a two side battle (iOS vs Android) will limit it’s growth. The more players this industry has, the better products and services mobile costumers can expect. So, because of that, I’m hoping Nokia do well on this particular phone and the Meego platform.
From CNET Asia:
Update: Colin Giles, Nokia’s Executive VP of Sales, has disclosed that the Nokia N9 will be retailing at US$660 (S$815) and US$749 (S$925) for the 16GB and 64GB models respectively. He revealed this information in a meeting with Malaysian journalists.
Meron po ba tong web flash player? gaya ng n900 dati.
sweet… here are some more of the features of the phone:
http://thenokiablog.com/2011/06/21/nokia-n9-ui/
heto naman yung bagong N950:
http://thenokiablog.com/2011/06/21/nokia-n950-photos/
sa may gusto ng dual sim na nokia heto ang bago:
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-c2-03;JSESSIONID_NCOM=ngq8TQyPvvBSFfNLy2GYhb27ScDVgssTWdyLYnD9vQMtz0wR5DTJ!-1302767280?cid=nokiacom-fw-scl-na-bsm-na-facebook-g0-en-na
they need to release it as soon as possible.. kasi if end of the year pa, im sure iphone 5 will come out, then probably htc, samsung, at SE meron namang new product that will make this one obsolete.. honestly i was waiting for a nokia wp7 but ang tagal, so i settled for the fruity phone muna while wala pa.. but still i want nokia to come back to the game.
I’m an n900 user. there’s not much apps available for maemo os. the phone lacks so much feature that are standards on other os/phone.
i hope nokia will release an update soon and not leave us (maemo users) in the dark.
i’m moving to an android os soon, primarily because of the applications i need the most at this moment is not available on maemo.
Wow too bad, N900 is a powerful device. No Meego love for N900?
you can upgrade your n900 to meego. =) https://meego.com/devices/handset/installing-meego-nokia-n900
Abe, first off way to represent the Philippines in Nokia’s Singapore event unveiling the N9!
If people would ask where are the sources for the N9’s price, here – “Colin Giles, Nokia’s Executive VP of Sales, has disclosed that the Nokia N9 will be retailing at US$660 and US$749 for the 16GB and 64GB models respectively. He revealed this information in a meeting with Malaysian journalists.â€
link: http://asia.cnet.com/crave/nokia-n9-hands-on-62209390.htm
Great! But does the 8Mp autofocus have a camera pixels same with digi cams? I wonder if it can capture like that of SOny cybershot or Panasonic Lumix?
There are people who buy phones, because of their hardware, and I mean not just the specs, but the reliability of the phone to withstand the daily wear and tear. N9’s hardware is quite impressive, although it’s just made of polycarbonate material, still I’m impressed because it’s not coated.
There are three things that I always consider when buying a phone: telephony (Nokia’s well-known for this), battery life, and hardware. So far, this phone has met the requirements. Plus, it runs on Meego which gives you the feeling that you’re using a different or unique device compared to the dominant iOS and Android phones.
Well done Nokia! I know you’ve been written off, but still I have high hopes for you. ;-)
Now just put in android with that design and it will be a bestseller. It is not easy to develop applications in Qt which is what you need to develop with this phone. :) If only Adobe would also include Meego in their Flex mobile target then that would be great.
but it has Nokia tune?
i miss the old Nokia tune!!!
Looks like a really yummy phone. (literally) haha!
Kidding aside, if the price is close to what Yuga’s projecting i’d call this phone soundly competitive :) what a way to amp up the mobile arms race nokia!
sir youga i think your referring to n900 hindi yung n90… kasi ung n90 symbian and yung n900 yung meego device… paki update nalang nito kasi para sa mga babasa pa nito… =)
anyways hats off sa N9… medjo nakakakilig xa…
Wow that’s a nice phone :) looks kinda big pero pwede na :)