MeeGo-powered N9 official, paves way for Windows Phone 7 Nokia smartphones

The Finnish mobile maker Nokia has has recently unveiled the MeeGo-powered N9 smartphone. The Nokia N8 successor is to come up with a number of inspiring features and potentials. MeeGo Harmattan, which was released at the Mobile World Congress 2010, is now going to get an impressive smartphone with the projected Nokia N9. The new Nokia smartphone is to be equipped with a chic QWERTY landscape-oriented keypad and certain loving features.

Nokia N9

Functionality

The Nokia N9 smartphone will sport a 3.9-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 960 x 540. An 8-MP camera with autofocus will be mounted on the device. Under the hood, Nokia N9 will highlight a 1.2GHz Atom processor, a 512MB of RAM and a huge 64GB of internal storage capacity. The device also has a 16GB version, though. The advanced smartphone from Nokia will support quad-band GSM/EDGE radio and a 3G HSPA/UMTS radio for data connectivity.

What to expect?

First of all, the key feature of the forthcoming Nokia N9 is that it ruMeeGo, a mobile OS platform that came to reality when Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin converged. It will be a new experience for tech world to see an advanced Nokia phone on MeeGo. The Nokia N-Series upgrade will have the curved edges of glass making it in harmony with the MeeGo OS platform. The device’s simple look and smooth design are fantastic things.

MeeGo-powered Nokia N9 Factbox

What not to expect?

We may not expect a perfect smartphone from Nokia on MeeGo since the company has inked an agreement with Microsoft for a Windows Phone 7 and Nokia collaboration. It will be doubtful whether there will be enough apps for N9 smartphone. As well, the smartphone comes with no psychical buttons in the front panel. The slide-out keypad may also be a shortfall for those who adore the touchscreen-only smartphones.

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Nokia N9

Nokia N9 is a bold, all-screen phone that's incredibly fast and simple to use

Nokia has formally ditched the MeeGo project. Nokia’s companion with the project Intel has severely criticized the phone maker for its tie-up with Windows Phone. Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft executive, is not at all interested with the MeeGo OS project. Hence we can not tell how perfect the device Nokia has launched on MeeGo will square of in its terminal period of relation with the OS.

WP7 Nokia smartphones, what future holds?

Microsoft has churned out a strategic partnership with the Finnish phone maker eying at a new Windows-Nokia mobile ecosystem. Microsoft was desperate with the failure of its Windows OS in the smartphone industry. Though having a superior UI, Windows OS did not attract much support from app developers. On the other hand, Nokia could not create any movements in the high-end phone industry even with its diverse OS experiments such as Maemo, Symbian and finally MeeGo.

It is here Microsoft and Nokia have joined hands together to develop a new mobile ecosystem to fight Google Andorid and Apple iPhone. However, months after the so-called “broad strategic partnership,” Nokia and Microsoft have not announced any devices on the new ecosystem. Hopefully, there are reports that Nokia is working on a tablet PC to run on Microsoft’s Computex Taipei demoed Windows 8. The Nokia Windows 8 tablet PC may probably come into the scene next year.