Nokia N9 hands-on: First look

22 June 2011
Today's smartphone scene is one of fierce competition and breakneck growth. Rarely though do announcements get any bigger than this. The Nokia N9 seemed forever stuck in rumorland, but never lost its grip on users' minds. The handset is rightfully enjoying as warm a reception...

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  • AnonD-11867
  • u78
  • 24 Jun 2011

Super design....excellent in syle...loved it...

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    • Unbiased
    • vj1
    • 24 Jun 2011

    There is no denying this is way better than Symbian... But I smell a lawsuit coming... The icons... The method of rearranging and uninstalling icons... The cut/paste method... Even the pinch to zoom...nthe slider... The on/off button for options all looks like it is from a iOS.

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      • Fruitcake
      • LhR
      • 24 Jun 2011

      Hope now after seeing the N9 this really shows that Nokia have at last got themselves back on track,we saw the Windows phone yesterday that looks exactly like the N9,hope also future phones from Nokia are the same idea,just one touch button a multi-screens,Nokia used to create super phones but were not thin an were to Bulky so hope the N9 means that things are getting better,an at last no Edof camera as thats been one of Nokias bad choice an the reason there phones were not selling to well

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        • AnonD-10443
        • t@J
        • 24 Jun 2011

        fully future beyond!smarter than smart!

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          • avi
          • vGy
          • 24 Jun 2011

          tht's nothin bt a ipod design wid large screen

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            • Anonymous
            • P$I
            • 24 Jun 2011

            Impressive phone. However, I need to see how e-mail and messaging, AV playback,office app etc are implemented.Personally I would want use of normal sim and inclusion of radio

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              • AnonD-4190
              • 7q5
              • 24 Jun 2011

              Oh this is promising. The smartest phone ever. Can wait 4 the full review... The alien killer...

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                • Anonymous
                • GW$
                • 24 Jun 2011

                Sounds very impressive - a great looking phone with some fantastic ideas that we all used to love Nokia for.

                The innovation here alone puts it above other phones for me, though to do well in sales Nokia are going to have to work very hard on their marketing. I don't like Apple but their marketing is brilliant, Nokia need to learn from this. Their adverts for the N8 were terrible even though it is a decent phone.

                Going to watch this space, looking forward to testing this curved screen and giving NFC a go :D

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                  • Anonymous
                  • SXp
                  • 24 Jun 2011

                  Amazing build quality.Great OS .Great design .fastest camera around .i am definitely buying this device no matter how much nokia will support it . i am so impressed

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                    • butthurt fruitphone
                    • vpY
                    • 24 Jun 2011

                    pitty it's not qHD, 24 Jun 2011it's a pitty that the screen doesn't have qHD resolution! q... morepity qHD resolution isn't retina display.
                    retina display is the way to go!
                    --see what you did back there?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • NH{
                      • 24 Jun 2011

                      its a good phone and i know it will be a hit on the market but it still is missing the qwerty key pad and thats what will not make this phone a good bye

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                        • the lourd
                        • v0q
                        • 24 Jun 2011

                        nokia will release meego one a year. so they will support it till last. i will buy this phone for sure. its an amazing phone and os. way to go nokia

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                          • ftT
                          • 24 Jun 2011

                          I gotta admit,THIS-IS-DA-BADDEST-PHONE!!!!!!
                          My cuz HTC Desire S cant even reach this in terms of smoothness, screen and overall usage. I just tried out the same usage tests dat was done on the N9 on mynokiablog.com and unfortunately,it was lagging in some area. Mind you, we did a hard reset with Angry Birds as the only App on the phone and stock ROM ie Sense3.0 on Gingerbread.
                          DAMN!!!!!
                          Im sure Google and Andriod didint see this coming, may even redo Honeycomb for mobiles.

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                            • M{q
                            • 24 Jun 2011

                            Impressive

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                              • Anonymous
                              • IaH
                              • 24 Jun 2011

                              onefouronezero, 24 Jun 2011excellent smartphone during this period of transition for N... moreThe zoom will be bad, like on all cameraphones.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 3qE
                                • 24 Jun 2011

                                Wow!!!!Now that's a impressive device...To bad just for the microSIM slot...more people in the world have normal SIM cards.But that again if you are a iPhone user and want to switch to something else,this could be the phone for you...
                                Nice work Nokia!!!!!Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • iAI
                                  • 24 Jun 2011

                                  curious george, 24 Jun 2011interesting that this articles states shining comments abou... moreThat is oled screen provider problem (samsung) that produce them, not nokia's that simply assembly them to their devices.

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                                    • AnonD-9845
                                    • PS6
                                    • 24 Jun 2011

                                    curious george, 24 Jun 2011interesting that this articles states shining comments abou... moremaybe they are talking about CBD units on c6-01 and e7..which doesnt have tinting probs.think out of your box man.

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                                      • BinKo
                                      • wYB
                                      • 24 Jun 2011

                                      If MeeGo is so good why Nokia decided to ditch it and choose Windows Mobile ???
                                      Market share of Windows mobile is so small it would have made no difference to use a new OS like MeeGo.
                                      I don't understand...

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                                        • utT
                                        • 24 Jun 2011

                                        no power button !

                                        how do I power on it after shutting down? And if it hangs then what ?