Nokia N9

The Nokia N9 (codename 'Lankku', Finnish for "a collapsed axle of wood") is a smartphone fabricated by Nokia based on the MeeGo "Harmattan" adaptable operating system, the aboriginal from Nokia on the MeeGo OS. It was appear in three colors: black, cyan and magenta, Nokia appear on Nokia World 2011 that a white adaptation of the buzz will be accessible afore the end of the year.

In August 2011 Nokia appear that it will not be introducing the Nokia N9 to key markets such as Japan, Canada, Sweden, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S admitting beforehand announcements.456789

Nokia acquaint on the official blog in the endure anniversary of September 2011 that the N9 is branch to stores. The antecedent retail amount was appear to be about EUR 480 (16GB) and EUR 560 (64GB) afore applicative taxes or subsidies

History and availability

The almsman of Nokia N900, internally accepted as N9-00, was appointed to be appear in backward 2010, about one year afterwards N900 launched. Pictures of the ancestor leaked in August 2010 showed an automated architecture and a 4-row keyboard. A software architect alive for Nokia's accessory analysis cited the N9-00 (the artefact number) in the accessible bug tracker for Qt, an accessible antecedent appliance development framework acclimated in MeeGo.11 This architecture was dropped; again Nokia started alive on the N9-01, codenamed Lankku, a new alternative after a keyboard.12

Nokia N9 was appear on June 21, 2011 at the Nokia Connection accident in Singapore.13 At the time, the buzz was accepted to become accessible to the accessible in September 2011.14 Users can get notified via e-mail of the availability of N9 in their country at the webpage of the Nokia Online Store.1516 Since Nokia bankrupt its Nokia Online Shop in abounding countries, including France, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and the USA on 30 June 2011,17 availability in those countries will be at the sole acumen of third-party retailers and cellular blast account providers. On 10 August 2011, Nokia appear that they had no affairs to absolution the buzz in the UK or the United States

Processors

The Nokia N9 is powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 which is a System-on-a-chip based on a 45 nanometer CMOS process. It includes three processor units: a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU which runs the operating arrangement and applications, an Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 530 GPU acknowledging OpenGL ES 2.0 and able of processing up to 14 actor polygons per second; and a 430 MHz TI TMS320C64x, a agenda arresting processor, which does angel processing for the camera, audio processing for telephony and abstracts transmission. The arrangement aswell has 1 GB of low ability individual approach RAM (Mobile DDR). Compcache uses allotment of this anamnesis as aeroembolism fast swap.

Audio and output

The N9 has two microphones and a loudspeaker anchored at the basal of the phone. The additional microphone is amid in the physique abreast beam LED and capital camera, it is acclimated by MeeGo arrangement for babble abandoning which accomplish buzz conversations clearer in blatant environment. On the top, there is a 3.5 mm AV adapter which accompanying provides stereo audio output, with abutment for Dolby Headphone, and either microphone ascribe or video output. Next to the 3.5 mm connector, there is a High-Speed USB 2.0 USB Micro-B adapter provided for abstracts synchronization, accumulation accumulator approach (client) and array charging. The USB adapter is adequate by a baby door.19

The congenital Bluetooth v2.1 +EDR (Enhanced Abstracts Rate) supports stereo audio achievement with the A2DP profile. Congenital car hands-free kits are aswell accurate with the HFP profile. File alteration is accurate (FTP) forth with the OPP contour for sending/receiving objects. It is accessible to limited ascendancy the accessory with the AVRCP profile. The Bluetooth dent aswell functions as a FM Receiver/Transmitter, acceptance one to accept to the FM radio by application headphones affiliated to the 3.5 jack as antenna. As with the Nokia N800, N810 and N900, it will address after software support.23

NFC is aswell accurate for administration photos, contacts, or music with added accessories acknowledging NFC (e.g. Nokia C7, Nokia 701) and aswell bond (connecting) stereo speakers (e.g. Nokia Play 360) and angle (e.g. Nokia BH-505). More than one accessory can be affiliated accompanying with N9 via NFC.

The N9 is able to playback FLAC files, including top resolution ones (96 kHz/24 bit). Whether the absolute achievement arresting is down-sampled to 44.1 kHz/16 bit or not is not known, about the Texas Instruments dent amenable for administration audio achievement is absolutely able of at atomic accouterment the 192 kHz signal

Software

Despite the fears of -to-be buyers about Nokia's abridgement of charge to MeeGo, aural three months of the N9's premiere the aboriginal software amend for the N9 was released. The update, called PR 1.1, bumped the adaptation from 10.2011.34-1 to 20.2011.40-4. The amend is a about 218MB (varies by country) and can be installed by user manually appliance the software NaviFirm and Flasher or OTA. It contains over 308 bug fixes and new appearance which conspicuously include:

alive babble abandoning during buzz calls appliance freespeaker microphone below the LED beam on the backside

adeptness to ascendancy the music amateur via the lock screen

adeptness to exchange/send links, contacts, abstracts appliance NFC

Swype

abutment for accumbent approach - not present previously

afflicted the absence ambience for a bottomward bash from abbreviate appliance to abutting application

acceleration improvements to the WiFi bore while affiliated to an "n" network

improvements to: QWERTY awning keyboard, notifications, internet browser, Facebook support, array cachet controller, WiFi and Bluetooth controller, and abounding others

Nokia has arise the next update, called PR1.2, which is planned to acquaint 3500 improvements which include:

folders on the "Home Screen"

accepted copy/paste

faster codecs for video coded in H.264 standard,27

USB On-The-Go (AKA USB OTG) which will acquiesce assorted accessories to be absorbed such as keyboards, mice, and alien anamnesis and abounding added improvementscitation needed

quick change of beam LED in foto mode, aswell quick change of LED in video camera mode, w/o abrogation appliance (camera)

bigger arena H.264 video

Update PR1.2 is declared to arise on 29 of February 2012

MeeGo 1.3 Nemo CE (Community Edition) for N9

The MeeGo association has put calm a “Community Edition” of the OS, dubbing it “Nemo”. Nokia N950 gets MeeGo 1.3 CE Nemo and N9 adaptation getting formed on. The affair of dual-booting on MeeGo is aggravating to be solved. Maybe a Nitdroid will be available. The amount of Nemo is aswell alleged Mer (from Meego relaunched) and aswell from Mer project.2930

MeeGo

Strictly speaking, the Nokia N9 does not run MeeGo 1.2 as its operating system. It instead runs what Nokia refers to as a "MeeGo instance". During the development of Harmattan (previously marketed as Maemo 6), Nokia and Intel alloyed their accessible antecedent projects into one new accepted activity alleged MeeGo. Not to adjourn the development schedule, Nokia absitively to accumulate the "core" of Harmattan, such as middleware apparatus (GStreamer) and packaging managers (the Harmattan arrangement uses Debian bales instead of RPM packages). Nonetheless, Harmattan is advised to be absolutely API accordant with MeeGo 1.2 via Qt. As far as end users and appliance developers are concerned, the acumen amid Harmattan and MeeGo 1.2 is minimal.12 Since all business accomplishment would accept been directed to "MeeGo", Nokia alone the Maemo branding to accept MeeGo as to not abash customers.31

The Nokia N9 user acquaintance provides three panes, alleged Home, and a Lock Screen. Dragging or flicking angular navigates amid the three panes of the home. 1 The Home consists of :

Events : It holds all the notification such as absent calls, accessible affair and benighted messages/emails.

Applications : Card with all the installed appliance shortcut. It displays 4 columns that can be circling up and down as bare by the amount of application.

Accessible Applications : A assignment administrator that can be beheld either as a 2 columns or 3 columns (a compression action will about-face amid anniversary mode). If added appliance are accessible that can be displayed on the screen, the user can annal the accessible applications account up and down.

When in an appliance a bash action from one bend of the awning to the added one will acknowledgment the user to one of the three angle of Home. This will not abutting the application, it will either be abeyant or accumulate alive in the background, depending on the application. To abutting an application, the user have to columnist and authority until a red "X" appears on the high larboard bend of the appliance thumbnail in the Accessible Appliance view, which will acquiesce to abutting it. You may aswell abutting apps by annexation from the top of the accessory and down while in the application, if enabled via settings. Beat on the cachet bar on the top of the awning while appliance an appliance or on the Lock Screen, will affectation a card acceptance the user to acclimatize the volume, change the alive contour (airplane mode, silent, etc...) and about-face off the bluetooth, WiFI, 3G and 2G radio. The Lock Awning affectation the cachet bar, a alarm and some notifications. This awning aswell holds music controls (introduced in PR 1.1) if the music amateur is active. It is customizable by the end user.

The buzz can be apart by bifold beat on the screen. Sliding the lock awning up reveals 4 shortcuts, alleged the Quick Launcher. The Quick Launcher can aswell be accessed while appliance an application