N9 User Review

The best UI, best screen, most fluid interaction, most beautiful design, best reception, great battery life, free offline maps for the entire world, streaming radio, music store, THE BEST multitasking, integrated social networking throughout. N9 is a Qt enabled device. Qt is a cross platform tool that you can write the code once and deploy to multiple platforms such a maemo, meego, android, symbian, linux distros, windows, mac, and now next billion of s40 series of Nokia. 

If you want a better OS, go with the N9. If you want to have a better future and ecosystem, go with the Nokia 800 which looks like the N9's twin but with WP7. Had N9 been released around 2008 about a month before Android/G1 been released, then the story would be a lot different. It would be a battle between Nokia vs Apple iphone for the premium end, but Nokia would have still won in volume sales because they cover the entire spectrum of prices while Apple wins in profit margins. This phone should have been what the N97 could have been. But Nokia got complacent after their N95 success and wasn't fast enough to catch the touchscreen race or develop their own app ecosystem like Apple did when Nokia still had Symbian. Resting on their laurels.they made no changes to Symbian thet still used resistive touchscreens with an OS that was laggy and looked outdated. Fairly slow CPU speeds. Nokia also never tried to cater to the American market even when their N-Series sales were at their peak globally. If Americans wanted a Nokia, you would have to get it unlocked to a get a premium one or get a cheap prepaid one. The mobile OS is now ruled by American companies thanks to Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The N9 also had no plans to be released in the U.S.

Specifications

1. Weight 135 g 

It is the perfect weight, fits & feels nice in the hand, and is made of a single piece of polycarbonate, vastly superior to the materials mostly used in Android device. 

2. AMOLED only ( Latest technology is Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen ) 

N9 Screen is right up there with Super AMOLED Plus, but even better sunlight legibility and a higher PPI makes one of the best in the market

3. Display size 3.9 inches ( Latest Displace Size in premium segment is 4.3 inches )

It is a got a perfect size, has more pixels in 3.9 inches than others in 4.3 inches

4. No Extendable Memory no memory slot

64 Gb inbuilt which would be sufficient .

5. HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps 

Real world download speeds in the N9 are top notch

6. Bluetooth Yes, v2.1  ( latest version 3 )

7. 8 MP camera 

N9 has the best Camera after the N8. 

8. No Radio 

9. Micro sim card support only 

10. composite TV Video out 

11. CPU speed is good 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU 

12.Swipe UI on N9 looks smoother and faster than my sisters GS2.

                               

User Review

I have been using the phone for a couple of days. In the beginning as it is completely new it took me a day or so tom get used to it but after that I love it. Transferred my iTunes music into it,messaging is directly connected to Facebook,google talk and normal messaging. Unfortunately meego does not work with whatsapp yet but google talk is fine and prefer it to wahtsapp. Phone is beautiful got it in black speakers are great but the best thing is that the battery life is much better than any other touch phone. The swipe of the screen needs getting used to but once you do enjoy enjoy enjoy. Again software and hardware great design beautiful much nicer in reality than the pictures.

For the diehard fans of Nokia, this is their final race. Many great things & people die young. Everyone from rock stars dying at 27 to Steve Jobs at 56. Life is too short. N9 can die young like James Dean's Hollywood career, but their star will shine brighter now that they are gone.. A "cult classic"in the making like what the Sega Dreamcast.