My Nokia N9 Review

The Nokia N9 is the first smartphone powered by Meego OS that gives you a totally new experience in swipe gesture unlike any other smartphone available in the market today. Everything is just a swipe away

Pros

Experience the Fluidity
All it takes is a swipe to get addicted to the Nokia N9

Gorilla Glass 
(which is a high-strength alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass offering scratch resistance and withstand strong pressure without shattering the glass)

2.5D Curved glass display 
(By removing the air gap between the glass and screen you get like a 2.5D effect and sharper image with the clearblack day or night)


Near Field Communication (NFC)
Allows wireless connection between two devices in close proximity to each other for payment gateway, file transfer and etc without the needs of traditional method of pairing first via bluetooth

Notification Window 

Feed all your facebook, twitter,foursquare and etc to one notification screen

 
16:9 3.9" curved FWVGA AMOLED (480 x 854 pixels) -
Big screen with AMOLED display with 251 PPI means better browsing and display experience 
 
Swipe gesture user interface (UI)
(Access all your frequent use apps by a simple gesture and totally new look)

Polycarbonate unibody

Any of a class of thermoplastics characterized by high-impact strength, light weight, and flexibility, and used as shatter-resistant substitutes for glass means its a very hard plastic.

 
Real time multitasking
Means everything is live including those running in background unlike some other OS it only sits there offline.

Social network integration -  
(No more signing in from different account now you get to do all under one place)

1GB Ram
(More multitasking capability)

Cons

Limited applications and games
Uses microSIM card
No FM Transmitter out of the box

Here an overview video of the Nokia N9 from start up

Audio Quality

Here an audio test for video, music and gaming.

Camera Performance

The Nokia N9 sports a 8 megapixel carl zeiss camera with the following enhancement:-

• Industry-first imaging sensor which is FULLY optimised for BOTH 16:9 AND 4:3 images
• Industry-leading Carl Zeiss optics
• Super wide-angle optics – the widest in the industry. Up to as much as 60% more viewing area than other broadly comparable devices
• f/2.2 aperture – largest ever in a mobile device
• Extremely responsive, especially switching from stills to video and vice-versa and shot to shot
• Touch AF for both video and stills
• Full time continuous AF in BOTH video and stills plus face detection
• HD video with stereo audio (still one of very few devices that provide high quality audio recording in video)
• Seamless workflows optimised for speed or editing & sharing
• Zoom in to images directly in the post capture view, edit and share all without leaving the camera – the most seamless mobile imaging experience
• Non-destructive editing of images – go back to the original image at any time. Undo or redo edits even months later
• New high power dual LED flash – 20% more powerful than our previous most powerful LED flash despite its compact size
• Geo tagging with place names rather than just co-ordinates
• AMBR – Automatic Motion Blur Reduction
• Not forgetting the touch to share of images between handsets using NFC technology

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The Nokia N9 emphasizes on One home.Three simple views to give you access to your frequently use screen by a simple swipe gesture. 1. Multitasking  2. Notifications 3. Menu . Once you are addicted to the Nokia N9 you notice yourself swiping every touchscreen device you get.

GPS Navigation
Nokia N9 comes free lifetime navigation with ovi maps. On my gps test i manage to get a lock in 33 seconds in open sky with building obstruction all around me using integrated gps only. Lastly for a nokia that is impressive.