The Nokia N9 will be available in Switzerland according to a Nokia Press Release. Available from Swisscom, Orange and Sunrise. 16Gb RRP CHF748th / 64Gb RRP 848th.
Press Release:
The Nokia N9 is available from tomorrow at Swisscom, Orange and Sunrise, as well as mobile zone and in stores. The phone boasts a sleek design and a new operating concept: the first time the menu is entirely without buttons – exclusively through the high-resolution capacitive AMOLED touchscreen. Without home or back button, you move by touching and intuitive “swipe” movements through the menu. The Nokia N9 is available in two versions: The 16 GB model, it is the recommended retail price of CHF 748th – 848th on the 64 GB version CHF -.
Will you be getting one ?
Source Nokia via @NokiaASE
5 Response Comments
Might have to buy one from Switzerland at this rate. Just got this from Expansys via twitter…
“It’s not coming out in the UK or US sadly. Available in most European markets though. We wanted to get our hands on one too
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http://twitter.com/expansysUK/status/121975526427602944
Also, mobilefun.co.uk have changed the N9 to “Price TBC” – http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/sim-free-nokia-n9-16gb-black-p30882.htm
It looks like Nokia *are* refusing to sell the N9 to even online retailers who want it here in the UK.
I’ve bought one, yesterday (Oct 6)!
Greetings from Switzerland
Congratulations. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it
Please review!!! Am going nutz because I can’t find a proper user review for the N9 anywhere (and also cos it’s not available anywhere I can find it
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Alright, but I’m not going to do a full review, there’s plenty of nice videos in the net that show the UI and so on. And I’m not exactly an “average consumer” (hope you’re neither), I’ve had the N900 before the N9, I’ve bought those handsets first and foremost because they’re the only real GNU/Linux phones available, and I can code for them in C/C++ (fck Android!), plus I despise Apple and Microsoft, so I would stick with it even if it had serious problems.
However: I totally fell in love with it! The N900 has sometimes felt “old”, compared to real smartphones. Not the N9 though, I’d buy this phone even if all other phones were truly open-source too! So I highly recommend it!
A few concrete issues:
1. The software sometimes (seldomly) hangs for a few seconds, but runs very smoothly most of the time. Core apps run fine, good quality. Other apps (e.g. facebook) have some bugs. I expect that to get fixed with updates.
2. Certain concepts seem to be implemented inconsistently, e.g. 2-finger navigation works differently in different core apps (browser, maps). Swipe is sometimes disabled when it shouldn’t be IMHO (keyboard!). There’s more, but usually a matter of opinion too.
3. Core apps could be more powerful; many important things however have improved since the N900 (especially calendar, quite nice! Try “hidden” week view in landscape mode!).
4. No keyboard – that’s okay, you don’t really need it (I thought that might be a problem; it isn’t). No FM transmitter or IR: That hurts. No superphone feature-wise anymore
Feel free to ask questions.