As many thought Nokia in Singapore today Announced the Nokia N9, a brilliant looking smartphone with a simple intuitive interface. Its all about Swiping … Swipes from the outside of the screen.
… use apps, get notifications and switch between different activities. Navigating the UI is done with a simple gesture, a swipe of a finger…
This is Nokia’s Marko Ahtisaari, SVP Design and User Experience, announcing the Nokia N9 and talking about the design:
Quick Video to get the mouth watering:
Key Features
- Bold all-screen design
- Body made of one piece with smooth shapes
- Maximum screen for the product size
- Vivid 3.9” AMOLED screen brings brilliant colors and content right to the surface
- Range of beautiful colors: black, magenta, cyanSimply ingenious: everything a swipe away
- The finger moves smoothly along the curved glass and curved shape of the device
- Hardware and software were jointly designed to ensure that they fit together seamlessly
- A simple swipe in any application takes you back to the home viewThree home views and live multitasking
- Each designed for a specific purpose
- Applications – start tasks quickly
- Open Applications - see all your running apps and multitask between them
- Events – your people, news and events in
Technical specifications
- Networks: Pentaband WCDMA 850, 900, 1900, 1700, 2100, Quad band GSM/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
- Speed: HSDPA Cat10: 14.4Mbps, HSUPA: Cat6 5.76Mbps
- Display: 3.9” WVGA (854×480) AMOLED display with curved Gorilla glassTM, no air gap, anti-glare polarizer
- OS: MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan• Memory: 1024MB RAM, 16GB/64GB storage
- Camera: 8Mpix auto-focus Carl Zeiss, wide-angle lens, 2x LED flash, Video capturing MPEG-4 SP 720p @ 30fps, 2nd camera for video calls
- Size / Weight: 116.45 mm x 61.2 mm x 7.6–12.1 mm (L x W x T) / 76 cm3/ 135 g
- Connectivity: BT 2.1, GPS, A-GPS, WLAN 802.11abgn, NFC, 3.5mm AV connector, micro USB connector, USB charging
- Processor: ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3630 1 Ghz, PowerVR SGX530
- Audio: MP3 player, Audio jack: 3.5mm, Supported codecs: mp3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, FLAC.
- Battery: 1450 mAh
Additional FeaturesExcellent camera
- 8MP autofocus camera with high performance Carl Zeiss optics
- Touch to focus, shoot quickly and move smoothly between stills, video and gallery
- Capture more with wide-angle lens and true 16:9 imaging
- Great low light performance with large lens aperture (f/2.2) and dual LED flash
- Easy sharing to internet services and via NFC to the people close to youFree maps and navigation
- Free turn-by-turn drive and walk navigation with voice guidance
- The dedicated Drive app is optimized for in-car use
- Maps are displayed in high resolution on the 3.9” AMOLED display
- Public transport routingFast web browsing
- High responsiveness through latest mobile browser technology (Webkit2)
- Multiple websites can be conveniently viewed in Open Applications
- Wide HTML5 support offers access to rich web applications and fast video playback
The Nokia N9 smartphone is based on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan and is a Qt-based phone, available in 16Gb and 64Gb versions. More Information will be uploaded as we have it. Some of the features of the new phone are:
SWIPE
The team behind the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 brought together elements of industrial design, software development and user interface advancements, as well as a developer platform to create a better way to use a phone. All that’s needed to use the Nokia N9 is a simple gesture, a swipe of the finger. It is an intuitive way to use all the different features and functions. Whenever you are in an application, you just swipe from the edge of the screen to go back home.UNIBODY DESIGN
The Nokia N9 has a beautiful one-piece, unibody design where the hardware and software fit together seamlessly. The large, 3.9 inch curved glass AMOLED display lets the applications shine and take full benefit of the user interface. Thanks to the innovative laminated display technology, it looks like applications are literally floating on top of the screen. The body of the Nokia N9 is made from the best in polycarbonate material engineering today, enabling superior antenna performance over most other competitors’ smartphones. This means better reception, better voice quality and fewer dropped calls. The Nokia N9 comes in three colours: black, cyan and magenta and with large storage capacities of 16GB and 64GB on the two variants to be made available.NO BUTTONS
The Nokia N9 is the world’s first pure touch screen phone without any front-facing buttons at all. You unlock the phone by just double-tapping the screen.THREE HOME VIEWS
The user interface in Nokia N9 is designed around the things people typically use the most. This is why there are three recognizable home views arranged in a carousel: 1) Applications for launching and organizing your apps. 2) Events for social networking feeds and notifications for calls, texts, calendar events, etc. 3) Open applications for switching between all live apps you have used recently. You can pinch and zoom the screen to see either four or nine open app icons. In fact, the Nokia N9 delivers the best multitasking experience on any phone!POWERFUL CAMERA
The 8MP auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and super wide 28mm lens works faster from start to capture than any other manufacturer’s smartphone camera in the market. HD video and true 16:9 resolution photos are supported. You can share your photos via MMS, email, NFC and many online services including Flickr and Facebook.FAST WEB BROWSER
The fast web browser is built on the latest Webkit 2 technology. Even while loading a web page, the screen remains responsive. You can have several browser windows open in the open applications view and switching between them is, again, fast and easy. Favourite websites are shown as visual thumbnails, supported by a full browsing history. Wide HTML5 support offers access to rich web applications and fast video playback.LATEST MAPS
The Nokia N9 has the latest Nokia Maps with free, voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation for walking and driving. There is also a dedicated Drive app for in-car navigation, which lets you start navigating to your destination instantly after entering your destination. Public transport routing in 85 cities means you can find the quickest route on foot or by tram, metro or train. You can also discover nearby places with cafés, shops, hotels and more, all marked along the way.DOLBY SOUND
Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus support on the Nokia N9 turns regular stereo audio into personal surround sound on any headphones – first on any mobile phone.NFC-ENABLED
Pairing between NFC-enabled accessories is easier than ever before – you do Bluetooth pairing only once and after that you can connect to them just by touching. You can also share content like photos or business cards via NFC.
7 Response Comments
two questions,
how long will this be supported by nokia? will it simply get a couple of updates and be dropped like the N900? it didn’t really sound like nokia has a long term plan for meego now…
and will the turn by turn navigation work in Australia?
strange i got updates for my n900 up to september 2010
It is… Is… Is… Beautiful :’( simply a great job Nokia
i hope coming soon here in Argentina.
Lucky. Suertudo!!! Here in Peru i will be waiting for it.
Disappointment. That’s my reaction to this. The OS looks interesting, to say the least, and isn’t what I was expecting. Not sure yet if it’s better or worse than my expectations but I’d like to give it the benefit of the doubt. The hardware, on the other hand, means I probably won’t even give it a chance. No expandable memory, micro SIM instead of a regular SIM, no FM transmitter, single core when all the new high end phones are going dual core, no HDMI, the list goes on. On the upside, the screen is nice and big and the codec support looks good. But the rest of the hardware is deal-breaking. I’d be willing to give this a shot as a second phone but the micro SIM means I couldn’t swap back and forth with another phone unless it’s an iPhone.
I might eat my words when this comes out. It’s happened before. But this phone just doesn’t do it for me. For all the people focused on the lack of a physical qwerty, it’s probably the least important thing this phone lacks. With Nokia, it’s usually “great hardware, shame about the OS”. This time, it’s the other way around.
This looks nice enough, I don’t usually get too exited about these kinds of annoucenments. I’d love to see how Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) decoding makes stereo sound feel like surround sound… Oh wait I regularly put blueray’s with EAC3 tracks on my phone I’m sure the downmixing will be awesome.
Dual core seems like a shame, but if it has DSPs for video decoding I’d happily go for that instead of another core.
CPU isn’t a deal breaker by itself for me, so-so CPUs are pretty typical of Nokia. Like you say, I’m ok with it if there’s an advantage elsewhere, but it seems like it’s missing so much of the hardware I love to have in my Nokias. Nokia’s higher end phones always seem to have an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink mentality when it comes to hardware, but this phone is lacking a lot of stuff I use all the time on my N8, stuff that was in my N900. It’s in aggregate that the hardware shortcomings bother me, individually I could probably let it slide but all together it’s severely lacking. But it’s not out yet, so there’s still time for me to change my mind on all that.