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SINGAPORE – At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today, Nokia introduced the Nokia N9, the first-ever pure touch smartphone that is all about making things simpler. Nokia N9 focuses on the most important things that people do: use apps, get notifications and switch between different activities. Navigating the UI is done with a simple gesture, a swipe of a finger. Let’s have a closer look at what the Nokia N9 is bringing to the game.

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.

The things that make the Nokia N9 unique – the industrial design, developments in software and user interface, and the ease of developer experience with Qt – will live on in a variety of ways in Nokia. You can go and experience the Nokia N9 for yourself at swipe.nokia.com. The site is full of interactive videos that show how the product works in real life – it is the second best thing to actually having the product in your hand! The Nokia N9 will be in stores later this year, with availability and local pricing to be announced closer to the sales start date.





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Posted: 2011-06-21 05:28:50
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Full Specs List: Nokia N9 Full Specs List

Press Shots: Nokia announce N9 Smartphone

Video of Swipe: Video - Nokia N9 - The Big Introduction - Swipe with Nokia's Beautiful Smartphone


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Posted: 2011-06-21 06:10:34
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Nice try from Nokia but i already spotted a few problems with this firstly it lacks HDMI,(even the N8 has HDMI wtf?) No flash support,just 1 Ghz processor,no gyroscope,no microsd slot and battery isn't replaceable either.

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Posted: 2011-06-21 06:33:23
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Exactly. I thought this phones was going to have higher specs than N8.
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Posted: 2011-06-21 12:29:42
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Well, this looks like a nice phone besides the absence of memory card slot or flash. If there's tons of apps, It will succeed.
But anyways, I though the meego project was closed and that Nokia will use all their effort on the Windows Phone platform. Clearly there are two streams in Nokia: one with Elop and the other one supporting more conservative projects.
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Posted: 2011-06-21 14:54:52
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N9 is more focused to demonstrate its new UI. It's clearly seen with this phone. N8 was more "look at my hardware" than its software.

Honestly, I thought Nokia was bringing a new phone which surpassed the N8 hardware-wise just to compete with other manufacturers' Android line-up. Or this is just an attempt to see how will it be to have a buttonless phone?
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Posted: 2011-06-21 15:17:33
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What's meego like for Apps anyway i know nothing about them?Just having a nice flash device just enough these days your Apps eco system determines your success or failure and the N9 has already failed if it doesn't have that.



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Posted: 2011-06-21 15:49:19
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Whatever you say, I think I'm gonna jump into this bandwagon very soon after my arc later this year

Rome did not build in one day, so it same as Meego ecosystem as well!
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Posted: 2011-06-21 16:30:45
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Very sexy very nice specs too. Why are people moaning?? For most 8 megs is enough on a mobile and I think Nokia did not wish to over shadow the N8 as its still the best camera so far on a phone imo and it will soon have Symbian Anna update. So maybe that is why they are not releasing another 12 meg phone yet. Also its Nokia with a gig of ram and 1 gig processor and higher res screen stop moaning man what more do you want?? I for one never bother using HDMI from my phone to tv. Who cares?? This also has the Nokia premium build too. I love it but want a black one them colours are too garish
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Posted: 2011-06-21 17:25:00
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Promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54llrCd4hps
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Posted: 2011-06-22 13:17:52
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