Nokia has telecombeurs communicasia trade its first MeeGo smartphone N9 will be presented. The N9 has a unibody enclosure, 3,9″screen and a whole new interface, which the control is based on swiping.
The N9 has a 3,9″ gebold amoled screen with a resolution of 854×480 pixels. The screen is securely created by the presence of Gorilla Glass. Further, there are no buttons on the front are present, reports Nokia. The home button on other Nokia smartphones has been replaced by swipe gestures from the side of the screen. It is unclear whether the side of the device is also touch-sensitive.
The OS of the N9 is according to the specs, MeeGo 1.2, but actually concerns a further development of Maemo, the operating system that ran on the Nokia N900 from 2009. MeeGo 1.2 works with three central screens which swipe action can be achieved: a multi-screen windows, an application menu with icons and a notificatiemenu which applications their notifications.
The N9 is equipped with an 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and the ability to video recording at 720p resolution with 30fps. It is also a front camera present for video calling. The N9 will get support for voip service Skype. Apps that work on Nokia’s cross-platformtechniek Qt 4.7 will also work on the N9.
The N9 is also equipped with nfc. Thus, lovers of Angry Birds with nfc-release Magic to work. Angry Birds Magic turned previously on the Symbian-smartphone Nokia C7. Also can via nfc photos to be shared by two devices close to each other in the near. Also via nfc can be a new speaker, linked, and music can be played through the set.
The Nokia N9 runs on a Texas Instruments Omap3630-soc with PowerVR SGX530 gpu. The Omap3 processor is clocked at 1GHz. The N9 measures 116x65x12mm and weighs 135 grams. The device features quadband gsm and pentaband 3g, so that everywhere in the world where gsm and 3g is supported one of the two networks can be used. The battery has a capacity of 1450mAh.
The N9 works with a micro sim card. This is the after Apples iPhone 4 is the second phone on the market that is the smaller version of the sim card supports. A traditional sim card in the device. The N9 is available in three colors and two versions: a 16GB and a 64GB variant. Also there is a lot of software pre-installed on the device, including Track&Protect, a beveiligingsapp that allows users after loss or theft of their device on traces, data clear, and a photo of the thief.
About the Nokia N9 go a year of rumors. The 16GB variant will cost probably around 550 euros, the 64GB version would be around 630 euro should cost. Nokia provides the ability of people to keep you informed about when the N9 in their country. Between the list of countries the Netherlands is not mentioned, though it is unclear whether that is because the unit is not in the Netherlands comes out.
In addition to the N9 presented by Nokia in all the silence a second MeeGo device: the N950. The second MeeGo smartphone comes not in the store, but it is only intended for developers. Vermoedeilijk is the N950 the cancelled Meego-smartphone with a metallic case and qwerty-keyboard, which, since August last year frequently leaked.
