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

kidproquo

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

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

andre

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

kamalakshantv

[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

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

kamalakshantv

[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

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

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

Eddy

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

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

andre

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

TobbY

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

kamalakshantv

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

jim_kaiser

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

[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

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

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

baysmith

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

aureshinite

Wow now I seriously consider writing Qt apps for MeeGo and Symbian. I hesitate because not only Nokia didn't expose a clear future for MeeGo, but I heard the process to submit and maintain your application on Ovi store is a real pain. Do somebody have more info about the latter ?

thisisbhaskar

[quote author="aureshinite" date="1308932804"] I heard the process to submit and maintain your application on Ovi store is a real pain. Do somebody have more info about the latter ?[/quote]

May not agree with you on this.. I have submitted 2 applications recently. The process is very much straightforward and does not take much time to publish it once your application is ready. And you get to see detailed report of your application performance everyday and you can see how many people have downloaded your application in each country and for each phone model.

check www.publish.ovi.com for more details and Qt SDK 1.1 is helping me a lot.