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Introducing the Nokia N9: all it takes is a swipe!
SINGAPORE – At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore , 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.
Specifications
| General | 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
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| 3G Network | HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 |
| Announced | 2011, June |
| Size | Dimensions | 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm, 76 cc |
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| Weight | 135 g |
| Display | Type | AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
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| Size | 480 x 854 pixels, 3.9 inches |
| - Gorilla glass display
- Anti-glare polariser
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate | | |
| Sound | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
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| Loudspeaker | Yes |
| 3.5mm jack | Yes |
| Dolby Mobile sound enhancement; Dolby Headphone support | | | | | | |
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| Memory | Phonebook | Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall |
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| Call records | Yes |
| Internal | 16/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM |
| Card slot | No | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Data | GPRS | Class 33 |
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| EDGE | Class 33 |
| 3G | HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.7 Mbps |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot |
| Bluetooth | Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR |
| Infrared port | No |
| USB | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| Camera | Primary | 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual LED flash |
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| Features | Geo-tagging, face detection, touch-focus |
| Video | Yes, 720p@30fps |
| Secondary | Yes |
| Features | OS | MeeGo OS, v1.2 Harmattan |
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| CPU | 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset |
| Messaging | SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds |
| Radio | No |
| Games | Angry Birds Magic (NFC), Galaxy on Fire 2, Real Golf 2011; downloadable |
| Colors | Black, Cyan, Magenta |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps |
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.1 |
| - MicroSIM card support only
- SNS integration
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Digital compass
- TV-out
- NFC support
- Dolby Digital Plus
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA/FLAC player
- MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), PDF viewer
- Video/photo editor
- Voice memo/command/dial
- Predictive text input (Swype) |
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| Battery: |
| Standard battery, Li-Ion 1450 mAh (BV-5JW) |
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| Stand-by | Up to 380 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G) |
| Talk time | Up to 11 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G) |
| Music play | Up to 50h | | | |
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