Nokia N9 Smart Phone Review

Submitted by Dave Won on

 

This new Nokia N9 Smart phone has got to be one of the most anticipated phones of 2011, as to it's release date that's anyones guess, the major change looks to be the OS with called MeeGo OS a move away from Symbian OS. Taken from MeeGo.com : MeeGo is an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity. MeeGo integrates the experience and skills of two significant development ecosystems, versed in communications and computing technologies. The MeeGo project believes these two pillars form the technical foundations for next generation platforms and usages in the mobile and device platforms space.Nokia N9 Review


Nokia hasn't even confirmed the N9's existence to date, so for now we have the Nokia N8. Below are the specs for what is known or rumored  about the Nokia N9 So far:

  • Network Technologies:
  • 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
  • 3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
  • Size & Dimensions: 160 grammes
  • Display: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16.7M colors (rumored LED???)
  • Size: 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches
  • - Nokia Clear-black display
  • - Scratch-resistant oleo-phobic surface
  • - QWERTY keyboard
  • - Multi-touch input method
  • - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
  • - Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
  • - Handwriting recognition
  • Sound & Alert types: Vibration; MP3, WAV ring-tones Speaker-phone, 3.5 mm stereo jack
  • Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photo-call
  • Internal 64 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 1 GB ROM
  • Card slot microSD, up to 32GB
  • Data GPRS Class 32
  • EDGE Class 32
  • 3G HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
  • WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
  • Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP, USB On-the-go support
  • Infrared port No
  • USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
  • Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels, auto-focus, dual-LED flash
  • Features Geo-tagging, face detection
  • Video Yes, 720p, video stabilization
  • Plus Secondary Video call camera
  • Features OS: MeeGo OS
  • CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor
  • Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
  • Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
  • Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
  • Games Yes + downloadable
  • Colors Black, Silver, Blue
  • GPS Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps
  • Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
  • - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
  • - Digital compass
  • - TV-out (720p video) via HDMI and composite
  • - Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI
  • - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
  • - MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
  • - Voice command/dial
  • - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
  • - Video/photo editor
  • - Flash Lite 4.0
  • - Voice memo/dial
  • - Predictive text input
  • Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1320 mAh