Introducing the Nokia N9: all it takes is a swipe!

andre · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 05:36

And yes, it is Meego :-)

Next to this N9, there has also been a quiet introdoction of the N950 for developers, which will not appear in stores.

kidproquo · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 05:41

I got the impression that the n9 and n950 are pretty much identical as far as hardware goes.

What would be awesome is if they did a limited edition "Qt green" version...

kidproquo · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 06:08

@andre

Seems I was mistaken. It looks like the n950 is actually pretty close to the phone in the video from a few months ago.

Specs:

Nokia N950 phone uses same hardware components as the Nokia N9 phone
with the following exceptions:

N950 is physically larger and is made out of aluminum, whereas N9 has
a polycarbonate unibody.
N950 has a physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The N9 is a touchscreen
-only device.
N950 has a 4 TFT LCD display whereas N9 has 3.9 AMOLED display.
Display resolution is same on both devices (854x480). Due to the use
of different display technologies, developers should avoid one pixel
with fonts and graphical objects with lines one pixel wide. Also avoid
the extensive use of bright colors, especially white, when developing
for OLED displays as this increases the power consumption (typical
for OLED displays).
N950 has a different physical camera module than N9. Both camera
modules have very similar image quality (Carl Zeiss branding in N9)
and both modules support 8Mpix image mode.
In the N950 the front facing camera is in top right corner and on N9
it is in the bottom right corner. The actual camera module is same.
N950 supports Bluetooth version 2.1+EDR, whereas N9 supports
version 4.0
N950 does not have support for NFC
N9 has slightly more sensitive magnetometer and ALS
N950 has 1320mAh battery, the N9 has 1450mAh battery

from the "release notes":http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/3744886f-69c1-4544-8ad3-72b352b4a832/Nokia_N950_OneClickFlashers_Release_Notes.html

kamalakshantv · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 07:08

Any idea if N950 developer kit be made available for any developer programs offered by http://developer.qt.nokia.com.

andre · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 07:15

I don't know about those programs, but yes, there are kits available (already received an offer).

kamalakshantv · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 07:27

[quote author="Andre" date="1308640544"]I don't know about those programs, but yes, there are kits available (already received an offer). [/quote]

So was the offer a part of being Qt Ambassador

andre · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 07:35

Basically, yes. Ambassadors have been offered one on loan if they could tell what they want to use it for.

kamalakshantv · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 07:41

[quote author="Andre" date="1308641704"]Basically, yes. Ambassadors have been offered one on loan if they could tell what they want to use it for.[/quote]

Thats a good news for all those Qt Ambassadors wanting to work on MeeGo platform.

Edorian · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 08:00

Too bad that only the N950 has a hardware keyboard, and i cannot get one of those.

In the "N9 specification":http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/N9-00/ there is a "Qt Games API" mentioned.
Does anybody know what is meant by this?

mario · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 08:27

I'm so excited! Currently downloading the harmattan extension for QtSDK

Eddy · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 09:26

bq. Basically, yes. Ambassadors have been offered one on loan if they could tell what they want to use it for.

I hope our Qt ambassadors can inform us about their findings/tests using the Qt sdk on it. If feedback is positive i'm very interested in buying one

thisisbhaskar · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 09:33

N950 is not for sale and looks like Nokia is releasing limited number of phones for developers.

andre · wrote on 21 Jun 2011, 09:38

Indeed: it seems they are only available on loan from Nokia, not for sale.

TobbY · wrote on 22 Jun 2011, 05:34

its just awsom, i have watched the videos. nice features

kamalakshantv · wrote on 24 Jun 2011, 05:54

Also Nokia N9 happens to be the first mobile device running WebKit 2. N80 was the first one running Webkit 1.

jim_kaiser · wrote on 24 Jun 2011, 06:25

Can I pre-order this? ;;) I need to buy a smart-phone anyway and what better than the Qt and Meego based N9! Oh and it looks so coool!

kamalakshantv · wrote on 24 Jun 2011, 06:32

[quote author="jim_kaiser" date="1308896705"]Can I pre-order this? ;;) I need to buy a smart-phone anyway and what better than the Qt and Meego based N9! Oh and it looks so coool![/quote]

Yes, go to swipe.nokia.com and there is all the information you need.

jim_kaiser · wrote on 24 Jun 2011, 06:46

bq. Yes, go to swipe.nokia.com and there is all the information you need.

Hmm... I checked there, but only found a "check availability" button. And the countries drop-down has no "India". In fact, China is the only Asian country on the list.

TobbY · wrote on 24 Jun 2011, 06:52

its really a good phone, i would like to create app for it. :)

baysmith · wrote on 24 Jun 2011, 15:28

While I don't agree with their pessimism, here is an opinion piece on Ars Technica about the N9:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/06/nokias-new-meego-based-n9-is-set-up-for-failure.ars