First lokk at N9

Nokia N9 is a MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan based smartphone supporting quad-band GSM, penta-band WCDMA, HSDPA/HSUPA and WLAN. The device features unibody design with 2.5D glass, a 3.9″ FWVGA 854x480 AMOLED display with capacitive touch screen and pinch zoom, 8 megapixel Auto Focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash. Additional features include A-GPS with included Ovi Maps, HTML5 capable Webkit 2 based web browser, real-time multitasking, social networking integration, NFC, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR and USB 2.0.

iOS to remove physical buttons – Inspiration from N9?

I’ve come across some videos demoing the new iOS 5 Beta. Yeah I know, I feel guilty for it.

Anyway, I have seen various videos and read some articles showing completely gesture based UI. (Although videos are of the OS on iPad 2 and iPhone 4 which still has home button, but it is never used).

Here are some of these videos and an article;
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Does this mean that Apple is feeling threatened by the Nokia N9 and MeeGo Harmattan’s Swipe? Why wouldn’t they be!

Jay: I’m not sure I totally understand the point of these particular gestures shown on the video. It’s apparently there to be more of an accessibility feature. Otherwise, removal of the home button simply to have touch gestures requires more additional presses than you would if the button is there.

MeeGo Harmattan does not fall for this compromise and utilises gestures to actually speed up what you would otherwise do with a button.

What’s hilarious is the lock screen. You LOCK the screen with touch but you cannot unlock it with touch. Nokia MeeGo Harmattan already solves this with double-tap which wakes the screen up. No buttons necessary AT ALL. There might be some new hardware or further improvements to take care of this, but otherwise, in current state and possibly for current devices, not useful.

I also like how this little “orb” thing blocks the music button. I guess it is in Beta, and it would be unApple like to have something so unpolished. I’d expect their gestures to work more like their pinch to close stuff.

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stylinred says:

I was saying Apple got put back by the N9 reveal that they went back to make changes to iOS5 hence no announcement on an Iphone5

and i got so much flack from fanboys, but now
 

Nokia N9 difficult task of rescue or take into Meego swan song is this it?

2010 is the N8, 2011 years N9.Nokia's struggling flagship N9 on stage.Nokia N9 high hopes, hoping to stop the tide, to save face once, and focus on building WP7 phone market to win a little time.
But observers Pengxiong Jiang believes that Nokia's desire might be lost again, N9 difficult to bear the responsibility to save water and fire out of Nokia, which is Nokia's decadent and the N9 of the core status is determined.Nokia's enormous inertia is also great, and now the tide is not able to stop one or two flagship machine is maintained. Iphone launch in the absence of the formation of a strong competitive edge with a revolutionary new product, I am afraid that this decline will continue indefinitely - N8 can not save Nokia, E7 can not save Nokia, N9 can not save Nokia.Nokia relatively insular, has preferred its own smart phone operating system symbian.N9 is a far, only a Nokia symbian operating system, the use of smart phones, N9 operating system is Meego.Meego is a Linux-based Nokia and Intel to launch smart phone operating system, both sides hope to catch up with the smart phone operating system battle the big trend.However, Peng Xiongjiang Meego skeptical of his mother said Meego Linux operating system in the smart phone on hiatus, as the smart phone operating system, Meego is impossible to bring a revolutionary leap. In fact, even Nokia's own Meego hold a high degree of suspicion, were negative for Meego, and the olive branch extended to the general performance of the Microsoft windows mobile.Comprehensive look at all the rumors now, N9 or Nokia Meego system equipped with a "swan song" - in the main application times, Meego apparently was unable to Apple and Google's android ios the os par.Of course, with Nokia's brand appeal and manufacturing processes, N9 is not difficult to find part of the market. However, the situation is very embarrassing N9: one is a lot of high-end Nokia mobile phone customers to the iphone and android camp continues to lose; the other hand, a lot of loyal Nokia users place their hopes in the upcoming WP Nokia mobile phone, a common form of stiffer N9 trend, so that sales of the flagship model N9 suffered embarrassment.