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MeeGo on one Nokia handset before Windows Phone 7 takes over |
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The Nokia N9 is an all-touch device, with a 'swipe' gesture replacing the tradition 'home' key. The interface design allows direct access to using applications, receiving updates with notifications and social networks and multitasking between activities. It also builds in camera, navigation and audio technology. The device has a  3.9-inch AMOLED screen and a polycarbonate body that Nokia says enables superior antenna performance. The N9 runs MeeGo 1.2, features an 8MP camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, 1GB RAM and storage of 16GB and 64GB. Reports in the media, however, questioned the need and the logic for bringing to market a product that runs the MeeGo platform, from which Nokia withdrew some months ago. MeeGo was being co-developed by Nokia with other stakeholders since 2010, but Nokia chose to opt out of the project as former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop became company CEO and announced the broad adoption of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform for the Finnish mobile phone maker's smart phone portfolio. That move has cost Nokia considerable market value and market share in geographies that it earlier dominated. Nokia's biggest loss of market share has been in the smartphone segment, which has been virtually taken over by Apple, Google's Android, and RIM's Blackberry. Reports said a number of analysts viewed the N9 as a product that would be tough to sell and would soon be obscured by the impending launch of Nokia's Windows devices. "With the Nokia N9, we wanted to design a better way to use a phone. To do this we innovated in the design of the hardware and software together. We reinvented the home key with a simple gesture: a swipe from the edge of the screen. The experience sets a new bar for how natural technology can feel," said Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia's head of Design. "And this is just the beginning. The details that make the Nokia N9 unique - the industrial design, the all-screen user experience, and the expressive Qt framework for developers - will evolve in future Nokia products." Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, speaking at the trade show in Singapore, did reaffirm the company's commitment to its “primary smartphone strategy” of the Windows phone. "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012." |
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