Nokia Reveals Its First MeeGo Device, the N9

[JMcEntegart]

Despite its pledge to make Windows Phone 7 its primary smartphone OS, Nokia hasn’t given up on MeeGo completely, and this week the Finnish company proved it with the announcement of its first MeeGo device.

Nokia Reveals Its First MeeGo Device, the N9 : Read more

 

[Maziar]

Looks really good but now Android,iOS and WP7 are dominating the market so I exactly don't know how a new phone w/new OS can live in the market.
Another thing is that it seems the phone doesn't have a front facing camera

 

[guardianangel42]

I'm not the only one that dislikes icon lists right? By that I mean Apple's iOS interface, what I've seen of google's Android interface, and this. Just a big jumble of icons and small names.

In windows, I always set Windows Explorer to display in "details" form and I just can't find what I'm looking for nearly as easily when things are icons or thumbnails or the like.

For this reason I don't use Windows Media Player or Zune to play video as finding the video I want is so much easier for me by going through Windows Explorer.

I use WMP for music though.

I'm not the only one like this right?

 

[feeddagoat]

Can you play angry birds on it without paying a stupid price for it? I can see people holding off these till win7 phones come out, not that win7 is that impressive tbh.

 

[guanyu210379]

Nokia...Nokia...you are clearly not knowing what you are doing.....
How come a new born baby (Meego) is able to compete with the giants (Android, iOS, and WP7)....or can the current OS world still give extra room for another newcomer?
Your WP7 policy is not optimum (Android should be more apropriate) but still has some hope in it....but not with your experimental Meego....
Why don't you just release your WP7 product lines as soon as possible and skip this Meego speculation.
We will se how good your Meego can be and let the market prove if Meego can survive or not.
Becarefull man! You are already on your way to destruction due to your current Symbian, any other wrong moves will speed up your destruction.

What I am actually hoping for until this very second is having Nokias hardware with either Android or WP7....not any other baby OSs....ooohhh welll...

I will try this one and see if it is good as soon I can find this one the market...being your old loyal customer who has just bought an Android phone...I do not even know what I am gonna say to you anymore.....

 

[proton9]

"Maziar 06/22/2011 9:42 AM
Hide
Insert quote. Report -0+

Looks really good but now Android,iOS and WP7 are dominating the market so I exactly don't know how a new phone w/new OS can live in the market.
Another thing is that it seems the phone doesn't have a front facing camera"

it does have a front facing camera. its at the bottom on the right hand side

 

[gregor]

@__-_-_-__ not sure where you got that from??

here's the specs from the nokia site:
http/europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n9/specifications

 

[icemunk]

Certainly a nice phone. MeeGo holds some promise being a linux based OS and all, with a large and loyal group of open-source developers so the apps developed for it will hopefully be free (most) and in abundance. Several other companies are testing the MeeGo waters as well, I for one like the idea but I'll hold on just yet getting it on a phone... maybe i'll trial it on my PC using a virtual system

 

[alterock07]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]trusting toms news can be tricky.
true specs:

Screen Resolution: 1280 * 720
Screen Color Depth: 24 bit
Screen Size: 4.0 inch
Display Technology: OLED (RGB)
Thickness: 14.2 mmWeight: 150
Input Method: Touch Screen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard
Data Bearers: IEEE 802.11b/g/n WLAN, HSPA +, WCDMA, EGPRS, EDGECPU
Type: ARM Cortex-A8
CPU Clock Rate: 1 GHz
Graphics Processor: SGX540
Flash Technology: Adobe Flash 1.10
Camera Resolution: 12 MP (4000 * 3000)
CMOS sensor: 1/1.7 inch
Camera focal length: 28 mm
Video Recording Resolution: 1280 * 720
Video Recording Frame Rate: 30 fps
Mass Storage Memory: 16GB or 64 GB Mass
NAND Memory: 1 GB
SDRAM Memory: 512 MB SDRAM
Memory: 512 MB
Maximum Memory Card Size: 32 GB
Connectivity: Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI mini connector C, Micro-USB (OTG)[/citation]


Trusting you can be trickier...

...and Tom's is right. Just saying.

True specs:

Source: gsmarena.com

GENERAL
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
Announced 2011, June
Status Coming soon

SIZE
Dimensions 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76 cc
Weight 135 g

DISPLAY
Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 854 pixels, 3.9 inches
- Gorilla glass display
- Anti-glare polariser
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
SOUND
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Dolby Mobile sound enhancement; Dolby Headphone support

MEMORY
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Yes
Internal 16/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
Card slot No

DATA
GPRS Class 33
EDGE Class 33
3G HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.7 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
Infrared port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support

CAMERA
Primary 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, face detection, touch-focus
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary Yes

FEATURES
OS MeeGo OS, v1.2 Harmattan
CPU 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU,
PowerVR SGX530 GPU,
TI OMAP 3630 chipset
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio No
Games Angry Birds Magic (NFC),
Galaxy on Fire 2,
Real Golf 2011;
downloadable
Colors Black, Cian, Magenta
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
- MicroSIM card support only
- SNS integration
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Digital compass
- TV-out (720p video) via HDMI and composite
- NFC support
- Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/FLAC player
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF viewer
- Video/photo editor
- Voice memo/command/dial
- Predictive text input (Swype)

BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh (BV-5JW)
Stand-by Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
Music play Up to 50 h

 

[Aravind Aarumugam]

Is'nt N900 Nokia's first meego device?

 

[ares1214]

I actually rather like it, a pretty nice combination of all the mobile OS on some nice hardware.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

Not bad, but how much will it cost? Also, like with the N8, excellent job on making the touch-phone that doesn't look like an iPhone (though N8 looked slightly better).

Actually, this phone has everything that I would ever want in a smartphone. Except that video recording quality could go up to 1080p, like on Samsung SGS II, could have added a memory card. And just for the lulz, the infrared port (to have EVERYTHING possible, plus you can remote-control the TV with it). Also, display resolution is somewhat low for a modern phone and, of course, MeeGo, which I don't know anything about... does it have many apps? Does it *need* many apps to be fun? How flexible is it? How stable is it? A lot of questions and no answers...

 

[mkrijt]

[citation][nom]Maziar[/nom]Another thing is that it seems the phone doesn't have a front facing camera[/citation]

the front facing camera is on the bottom....

 

[fir_ser]

I thought Nokia ditched MeeGo.

 

[Filiprino]

[citation][nom]fir_ser[/nom]I thought Nokia ditched MeeGo.[/citation]
If we recall Nokia strategy this is the first and last MeeGo device from them. They just wanted to get out their finished project and that's all. Something extraordinary needs to happen in order to change that. It's a pitty, MeeGo looks one hundred times better than Windows Phone. If they continued involved they could have a great high end OS. A lot of Android phones with less hardware don't feel as smooth as the N9 with so many apps open. The swipe gesture is good implemented, in a non-annoying way, very intuitive.
This phone should have:
-1080p video recording and playback
-HDMI
-Infrarred port (on N900 you could use it as a TV remote)
-H.264 up to high profile
-Dual core cortex A9 (1GB of RAM is good and there will be 16 and 64GB storage versions)
-MicroSD
And I think that's all.

 

[Filiprino]

Ah, one thing more. If they are selling the N950 to developers, what does that mean? Having into account the plans Nokia announced at the first quarter of this year it does not have much sense knowing this would be their only MeeGo phone.

 

[carcharocles_theory]

Am I the only person who thinks of Lovecraft when I read "MeeGo?"

 

[carcharocles_theory]

Am I the only person who thinks of Lovecraft when I read "MeeGo?"

 

[Guest]

will the os be open source?

 

[NightLight]

I was a big nokia supporter for years, untill I had the n97. I made the switch to a htc desire hd with android, and I gotta say, I don't want to switch back any time soon, even if this thing is looking pretty good. Nokia will have to grind for a while!