Finally after a long wait Nokia has launched its new smartphone to compete with the present market scenario of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. It seems that Nokia has finally decided to change its mobile platform from old Symbian to MeeGo, Linux based operating system. N9 is the first mobile from Nokia that utilizes MeeGo operating system. MeeGo is developed in partnership between Nokia and Intel. The company has decided to provide full support and applications to its MeeGo powered smartphones for years to improve its market value and give a great competition to Android and iOS. Let’s have a look at some of the features of this phone and its new MeeGo operating system.
What is it?
Nokia N9 is basically a smartphone that has all the high end capabilities of a smartphone. N9 is the first smartphone that utilizes MeeGo operating system. MeeGo is said to be an advanced Linux based operating system. Developed in partnership between Nokia and Intel, MeeGo is supposed to be a new rival in category of operating systems for handheld devices.
Key features
The Nokia N9 comes with great features. Besides the advanced MeeGo operating system this device is much powerful in terms of hardware also. The device comes with 3.9″ capacitive AMOLED Gorilla glass display that is comparatively brighter like Samsung Galaxy S2. The phone has a great 8 Megapixel LED flash camera with Carl Zeiss optics to capture your precious moments. For faster processing the device has 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU with 1GB of RAM with it. Besides this the phone has Accelerometer, proximity sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and lots of features which make it a real smartphone. The device home screen has three customizable screens and also supports multitasking with an easy interface to manage all the running applications. Finally, being a Nokia phone it provides much better battery life as compared to other smartphones.
What’s innovative?
Now a days each company is launching its new smart-phones that has some new innovative features as compared to its competitors. Similarly the Nokia has done with its new N9 smartphone. The most innovative thing about this smartphone is its MeeGo 1.2 (Harmattan) operating system. MeeGo being an Linux based operating system is quite fast and runs very smoothly with the high end hardware of Nokia N9. Nokia N9 has got the credit of being the first ever smartphone with MeeGo operating system.
Price and availability
Nokia N9 is available in three different colors Black, Cyan and Magenta. You can get N9 in different models according to the storage capacity. For a 16GB model you need to pay US $650 and if you want a 64GB model then you can get it for around $755. The company is making N9 available step by step in different countries according to demand and market situations.
The up side
Nokia N9 has got all of the plus points with it. When it comes to its size, it is 116.5 mm x 61.2 mm x 12.1 mm in size and weighs only 135 grams which makes it a real smartphone according to standards. The screen size is also 3.9″ that is most appropriate for a smartphone and also makes it more handy and accessible. The camera quality is high and you can even record videos at 720p with its 8MP camera. After all it belongs to Nokia so the best thing about it is its battery life as all other previous phones from this mobile phone giant.
The down side
The negative things are not so much about this phone. Some things are there that can be considered as negative point for this smartphone. First thing is its MeeGo operating system. As it is new in the market, no expectations can be made about its performance and support. Second thing that disillusioned us is that it does not have support of expanding memory with an external memory card. It has more than sufficient memory of 16GB or 64GB. But if you want to take backup of data, you will definitely need an external memory card slot for it. In that case it is a down side.
Our experience
The first look over the phone gives a unique impression over the user. The phone has slate like design with a slim body. The screen is much more brilliant and is scratch resistant with Gorilla glass. We tried its camera, the quality of images taken with its 8 MP camera are excellent but somewhat lags from its N8’s 12 MP camera. We liked the multitouch and multitasking support of the phone. Overall the phone is very handy and smart in this category.
The bottomline
So far we have discussed a lot about the N9 smartphone, its positive sides, its negative sides, our experiences and much more. According to us, the Nokia N9 is a must buy for a Nokia lover and for the persons who care durability along with the quality. It proves its value with the range of functionality that it is providing with it.
