Nokia N9

The Nokia N9 is, without doubt, one of the most fascinating phones of the last few years. The tale of its development and launch interweaves almost all the multivariate strands of the Nokia narrative. It is simultaneously the last big hurrah for the Nokia of old and the first showing of what the new Nokia, steered by Stephen Elop, is capable of. Much like the N8 and E7 that came before it, the N9 features an industrial design that sets it apart from the carbon copy smartphone crowd and marks it out as an unmistakeable Nokia product. Unlike its predecessors, however, the N9 shrugs off the aging, touchscreen-antagonistic Symbian operating system and moves to the long-awaited MeeGo Harmattan software.

Nokia N9 full Specifications:-

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support

Penta-band 3G with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support

3.9" 16M-color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 480 x 854 pixel resolution

Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display with anti-glare polarizer

8 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash, 720p@27fps video recording and fast f/2.2 lens

Meego v1.2 Harmattan OS

1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset, 1GB of RAM

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n

Non-painted color polycarbonate unibody, curved screen

GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation

Digital compass

16/64GB on-board storage

Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic

Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor

Standard 3.5 mm audio jack

microUSB port

Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and EDR

Nice audio reproduction quality

Impressively deep and coherent SNS integration throughout the interface

DivX and Xvid support

Some of disadvantages

No Flash support in browser

Limited set of apps

No office document editing

Non-user-replaceable battery

No memory card slot

microSIM card slot

No FM radio

Not surprisingly for a Nokia phone, reception was trouble-free and calls sounded clear in our tests. We used the N9 on both T-Mobile and AT&T's 3G networks here in San Francisco and HSPA performance matched our expectations, reaching a respectable 6Mbps down and 2Mbps up in some areas. Audio quality is excellent, but the output is quieter than most other handsets when driving some headphones (like our BeyerDynamic DT990 Pro) -- as for the mono speaker, it's merely adequate. Battery life is pretty decent considering the screen size, the amount of RAM and the somewhat average-sized 1,450mAh battery. The N9 ran for about 8+ hours in our rundown test, which involves playing a video in a loop. Our usage test, which simulates a light day's use, yielded an impressive 37+ hours. As such, most people will be able to enjoy this device for an entire day on a full charge.