Nokia unveiled Tuesday its new N9 smartphone that runs the MeeGo operating system , and is being market as a “ pure touch screen ” machine without buttons .
Nokia ’s new N9 smartphone , which uses the MeeGo operating system
The N9 will establish later this yr , and the company will unloose later the twist ’s pricing and availability in various market , Nokia CEO Stephen Elop order at a company event in Singapore .
Nokia’s new N9 smartphone, which uses the MeeGo operating system
Nokia said in February that it would establish a future smartphone strategy around Microsoft ’s Windows Phone 7 , to help the fellowship compete against Apple ’s iPhone and handsets using Google ’s Android operating system .
The company said it would still put out during the yr a smartphone with MeeGo , a Linux - establish OS developed in collaborationism with Intel .
The Windows - based production is scheduled to ship later this yr , Elop enunciate . Nokia had to begin with say the product would transport by the quaternary quarter .
Nokia also restated its commitment to the Symbian operating system at the event . The company said it will start shipping Nokia N8s , E7s , C7s and C6 - 01s with the newSymbian Annasoftware update in July . By the end of August , existing owner of these devices can also download Symbian Anna . Over the next 12 month Nokia design to land up to 10 new Symbian - base smartphones to food market .
Nokia plan the N9as an “ all screen ” phone with a 3.9 = in show that covers most of the front side of the gimmick . No home button is progress on to it . Instead , users sail back to the home plate sight by only lift across the sharpness of the phone ’s CRT screen .
People want more blind on their headphone , and want to be able-bodied to expend their phones when on the move , said Marko Ahtisaari , Nokia ’s senior vice president for design . That requires the phone to offer undecomposed one - handed use , and the power to regard all information at a glance of the telephone , he added .
The N9 features an 8 - megapixel camera . It also apply near - field communication engineering . During Tuesday ’s demonstration Ahtisaari showed that the gimmick can easily synchronise with a Bluetooth headset , simply by hold the telephone set touch the earpiece .
The phone will come in three colors : disgraceful , cyan and magenta . There will be two versions available with storage at 16 GB and 64 Gi .
The innovation of the N9 will be carry forward to other smartphones from Nokia , Elop said .
