Technology|June 21, 2011 11:03 am

Nokia’s N9 official: a luscious slab of MeeGo coming later this year

Stephen Elop pronounced that Nokia would betray the initial MeeGo device this year, as good as he only done great on his word with the N9 (also good known as Lankku). Just as we speckled earlier, the N9 is the plain chunk of 3.9-inch AMOLED shade (854 x 480) sans the set of keys or earthy switches of any kind (well, in reserve from that oh-so-necessary volume rocker as good as camera button). The phone comes with 16GB or 64GB of onboard mental recall as good as 1GB of RAM wrapped in the polycarbonate bombard that’s colored all the approach through, so dings as good as scratches won’t uncover — unless the wounds run deep, of course. An OMAP3630 1 Ghz processor does the computing whilst the PowerVR SGX530 GPU is around for graphical deep grown work. Connectivity comes pleasantness of quad-band GSM as good as penta-band WCDMA radios, as good as Bluetooth 2.1, NFC, as good as GPS. There is additionally the dedicated camera symbol for the 8 megapixel wide-angle shooter, that is means of orifice F2.2 for low light design receiving as good as loyal 16:9 720p video recording. Oh, as good as it’s an AF shooter, not EDoF.

The complete thing measures 116.45- x 61.2- x 7.6-12.1mm as good as weighs 135 grams, with the battery means of durability up to 50 hours (music), 4.5 hours (720p video), or in between 7 as good as eleven hours (GSM yappin’). You’ll additionally get free of charge turn-by-turn expostulate as good as travel navigation with voice superintendence in Maps, the dedicated Drive app, vicinity sensor as good as the preference of hue: black, cyan, as good as magenta. Other hardware specs embody 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, an ambient light sensor, compass, course sensor, the micro SIM slot, tethering await as good as the 3.5mm “AV connector.” It’ll be humming along on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan, with apps being agreeable with Qt 4.7 as good as HTML5 await bundled in.

As for software? Aside from Angry Birds Magic, Galaxy on Fire 2, Real Golf 2011 as good as OpenGL ES 2.0, those who take the thrust will be greeted with the Webkit2-based browser, pinch-to-zoom support, one notifications for Facebook, Twitter as good as RSS feeds in the Events perspective as good as amicable networking profiles as good as standing updates joined in to phone contacts. MeeGo touts the user interface made easy to 3 home views — events, applications as good as open apps — with the appropriate gesticulate means to take we behind to the home view. For those seeking to enhance on what’s installed from the factory, Ovi Store entrance is included, though we’ve no thought what kind of pricing will be affixed. We’ll be removing the satisfactory bit of hands-on time with this man in only the couple of hours, so keep it sealed here for the initial impressions!
Nokia’s N9 official: the cosmetic chunk of MeeGo entrance after this year

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