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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
A Delight To See & A Joy To Use
By projekt
Having owned and used an iPhone 3G for the past 3 years, I thought it was time for an upgrade. With fierce competition in the market from many manufacturers eyeing the throne for "Smart Phone" king with their splendid products, it was not going to be an easy task. I had settled for three contenders that I had thought were worthy of consideration. They were: Apple's iPhone 4S, Samsung's Galaxy S2 and Nokia's N9.Having owned an iPhone 3G, I didn't feel that iPhone 4S was considered an upgrade to my experience. Yes, there have been major advancement in the processor, the screen display is wonderful, the multitasking issue has been answered, and many features that you may know of. But, the experience and look, well to me, is still the same. And Apple's control over the OS mars the experience. It was until you performed the jailbreak that things started to get fun.The Samsung Galaxy S2, is a monster of a phone. It does everything apart from shaving your beard. Yet, there was always this doubt when deciding to go and purchase it. The Android UI, in my opinion is clunky. It's not very well layered as the iOS. Then the issue of future upgrades. With Apple you're in the loop, as for Android, you are compelled to purchase a new phone or read the numerous forums on how to install the upgrades manually, which is a task.However, with the Nokia N9, I was taken aback with its beautiful & simple design. There are no buttons apart from the lock & volume rocker on it's side. A cover is included in the box, to shield and protect the N9 from the bumps & blemishes. And it does not hinder the design nor obstruct the beautiful swipe gesture. The quality of the phone is great. You may at first be intrigued by the small button at the top of the phone that secures the sim card compartment and how to get it to open. It was frustrating at first. I even thought you are required to be double jointed to get the thing to open. But once you understand the design it all makes sense.The MeeGo OS is a wonder in itself. It is a well layered interface and the response is very fluid, despite the Nokia N9 not graced with a dual core processor. Yet the ingenuity of a swipe is so natural and so seamless that you're left to wonder of the simplicity of the gesture. The UI and the phone go hand in glove. To activate the phone you either press the on/off button on the side or simply tap the lock screen twice and swipe (either from left to right, right to left, top to bottom or bottom to top) you're presented with 3 home screens:' App Screen: Screen that lists all the apps' Open App Screen: Displays all the open apps' Notification Pane: All your missed calls, SMS text messages, emails calendar, feeds, Skype, Facebook, Twitter & notifications are displayed here in an organized manner.The N9 is very versatile and efficient. The battery under PSM (Power Save Mode) should last you 3 full days of regular use (making calls, sending text, emails & etc...). I had many contacts on my previous iPhone 3G, all I had to do was Bluetooth my entire contact list to the N9. That only took about 20 seconds. The Bluetooth feature was something very useful that I had sorely missed on the iPhone.The camera is wonderful, with a plethora of options that may render your compact camera useless. There is a front facing camera, but this hasn't been brought to use yet. However, there shall be an update soon to address this matter.Nokia have stated that they will stand by the Nokia N9 with updates and support till 2015. Since it's release last summer, there have been 2 updates so far with as stated above, one update promised for release by the end of the month to make the N9 experience all the more mesmerizing.Yes, there may be a lack of apps when compared to iTunes & the Android market, but the Ovi Store inventory is increasing week by week. And the N9 comes with Angry Birds, NFS Shift, RF 2011, GOF2, Facebook, Twitter & Skype dedicated apps.The Nokia N9 is a delight to see and definitely a joy to use. It should be considered if you are going to purchase a smartphone soon.
31 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
The Most Amazing Phone
By Vipresh
Key features- Quad-band (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) GSM/GPRS/EDGE support- Penta-band 3G (850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100) with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support- 3.9" 16M-color AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 480 x 854 pixel resolution- Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display with anti-glare polarizer- 8 megapixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash, 720p@27fps video recording and fast f/2.2 lens- Meego v1.2 Harmattan OS- 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP 3630 chipset, 1GB of RAM- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n- Non-painted color polycarbonate unibody, curved screen- GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation- Digital compass- 16/64GB on-board storage- Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic- Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack- microUSB port- Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and EDR- Nice audio reproduction quality- Impressively deep and coherent SNS integration throughout the interface- DivX and Xvid support[Revised- Latest Firmware Released : PR 1.2 on Feb 27th 2012- Front facing video chat enabled for Gtalk (Require Google video chat app to be installed).]Main disadvantages- No Flash support in browser- Limited set of apps- No office document editing- Non-user-replaceable battery- No memory card slot- microSIM card slot- No FM radio (Revised: FM Apps avaiable)[Revised- Flash supported through Firefox browser (Require Firfox browser and Adobe Flash Player apps to be installed)- Basic daily use apps are there, however can't be compare with iOS and Android app counts.- Paid FM Apps avaiable (with RDS option)]
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderfully integrated communications
By H. Waddell
The one thing this phone does incredibly well is integrate many different kinds of communication in a consistent easy to use way. Voice, SMS, MMS, IM, VOIP, all work well in concert with each other because of the the linux OS's underlying communications systems. On top of that, a very polished alert mechanism combined with the elegant swipe gesture system make this phone an absolute joy to use. Visually, the device is rather stunning -- the case design and AMOLED screen look fantastic. Also, the GPS sensitivity and battery life seem to be very good as well. That said, there are a few flaws that could drive buyers away to other devices. Compared to everything else on the phone, the 3 buttons the phone has left feel really cheap and plasticky. Also, this phone is pricy and since it's imported, you have no warranty for the device. There are lots of high quality apps available, many of which are free. It's a decent enough collection of apps numbering in the hundreds, rather than 10's or 100's of thousands. Gpodder, ecoach, sports tracker, angry birds -- lots of good stuff. In theory there will be an app that will allow this phone to run android apps next month. Bottom line, if you want an amazing communication device, have enough available money to buy an expensive phone without a warranty, then this could be your next device. If you want a wide variety of applications, especially games, or can't justify the financial risk, then you best look elsewhere.
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Refurbished and does not work at all
