The Nokia N9-00 is the only smartphone created by Nokia using the operating system MeeGo Harmattan, based on Linux. Its design is notable for the absence of buttons on the front of the phone, the one-piece polycarbonate shell, and the curved touch screen. It is available in four different colors: cyan, magenta, white and black.
Origin
The Nokia N9 was announced on June 21, 2011 at the Nokia Connection event2 in Singapore.
On September 13, 2011, an invitation was sent for the official launch of the product in Malaysia. At the end of this event Nokia has announced a release in Malaysia in October 2011 and will be supported by three operators: Maxis, Digicom and Celcom.
On September 20, 2011, Nokia France officially announced that the N9 would not come out in France. This announcement caused disappointment among fans of the Finnish brand, who saw it as a superb showcase for Meego OS in France. This choice was mainly motivated by Nokia's desire not to introduce competition, confusion (and choice), so as not to weaken sales of the arrival of the first Windows Phone 7 OS devices at Nokia.
Technical characteristics
processors
The Nokia N9 has an OMAP 3630 ARM Cortex A8 processor, which is a single-chip system of Texas Instruments engraved in 45 nm and operating thanks to the CMOS technology. The OMAP 3630 consists of three microprocessors: the 1 GHz Cortex A8 used to run the operating system and applications, the PowerVR SGX 530 GPU to 14 million polygons per second, created by Imagination Technologies which supports OpenGL ES 2.0 and a TMS320C64x, the 430 MHz digital signal processor used for camera image processing, audio processing (telephony), and data transmission. The main goal of the TMS320 C64x is to relieve the Cortex A8 from audio and video signal processing. The system has 1 GiB of dedicated RAM.
Buttons
There is an on / off / sleep button on the right side of the screen, and two buttons for adjusting the volume. As Nokia N9 has fewer physical buttons than most smartphones it relies only on the touch screen for navigation in the user interface. For example, to minimize an application, the user must drag his finger from one edge of the screen to the opposite edge.
Storage capacity
The Nokia N9 has a memory eMMC (mass storage memory) with a capacity of 16 GiB or 64 GiB depending on the model. It also has a non-removable NAND memory (ROM) of 512 MB. External memory cards are not supported.
Software
Operating system
Main article: MeeGo.
The operating system of the N9 is not MeeGo itself. In fact, some technologies from MeeGo are running as software, above the Maemo operating system. During the development of Maemo 6 and what would become the N9, Nokia merged Maemo with the Intel Moblin project, to form a new project common to both companies: MeeGo3. To avoid delaying the release of its new phone, Nokia has decided to keep the "core" of Maemo 6, for example some software components like GStreamer and the deb package management system (MeeGo uses RPM). The MeeGo interface has been integrated with Maemo 6, to form what Nokia has called Meego / Harmattan4
Reception by the public
The Nokia N9 was announced at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore in June 2011. The device was very well received. However, the fact that it is the last device under MeeGo Nokia5 has fanned many critics, users fearing that the device is not followed and updated6.
The Finnish firm has still created the surprise by deploying versions PR 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 of Meego Harmattan. Important updates notably improving the responsiveness of the terminal7.
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