Gadgetory

well hi I'm Blair wood a virgin I'm here with the Nokia n9 this is the first and unfortunately only meego harmattan device for the consumer market it measures 12.1 millimeters in thickness which isn't competitive with the latest smartphones just in terms of measurements but in terms of looking field the n9 is actually one of the best phones of handle yet it really has great feel in the hand it also comes with an 854 by 480 AMOLED display it comes with a clear black branding that Nokia applies to displays it has awesome viewing angles terrific color reproduction there is a slight issue with whites and light Gray's when you look at them from the side they tend to have a bluish hue but generally it's a great display the Hamilton UI is unique in a couple of ways firstly it unlocks with a double tap or you wake the lock screen with a double tap then you have this swiping gesture which you can see here if you swipe only halfway up you get this four icon launch pad which is available when you are inside an application or from the lock screen you have three home screens this one here is the events now this is the application screen there is a drop down menu and the third screen is the open application screen which is essentially your visual multitasking overview but you can access your apps and switch between them very quickly performance is generally very snappy very quick but loading in some applications can be occasionally slow as you could just see there with the music player at the pre-loaded games included will go of 2011 Angry Birds with some NFC additions made there so that you can play with your friends and as you can see need for speed shift all of them work brilliantly they play brilliantly frame rates more than playable camera performance is very quick in terms of quality there are some issues it isn't perfect but in terms of taking both Stills and video the n9 is one of the faster phones out there it isn't quite on par with the iPhone 4s but then not a phone really is performance go browsing through the pictures again is very quick very snappy pinch-to-zoom is buttery smooth now issues whatsoever the same is also true of using it in the browser or in the preloaded Maps application one cool thing about the swiping this is the way you dismiss applications you swipe them away from one at the edges of the screen you could see there was that the video was still playing while you were swiping the application away on the applications menu you can move all the icons around and on the open applications menu you can kill applications individually or there's a button saying closed off so it all works very well you can have a four icon for call view or nine card view the browser when you first get into it brings up your latest and your most visited websites you could just see there the on-screen keyboard is also terrific it really works very well this haptic feedback which actually works and helps user experience browser performance is again for a quick there is no flash support but again pinch-to-zoom scrolling for there's an elastic animation there when you reach the end of scrolling or finished assuming there's the unlocking motion you can swipe you look screen away in any direction you just start from one edge of the screen and then swipe all the way to the other coming back to the AMOLED display it is obviously and typically for AMOLED displays very uniformly lit one thing that bears mentioning is that it comes with plants our matrix sub pixel arrangement which has been an issue with previous phones but looking at it here and close-up you just can't tell there are basically no issues relates to depends our matrix I wouldn't be worried about it again terrific viewing angles one thing also to note is that the Nokia n9 comes with a micro sim it's one of very few forms that use it Apple's iPhone is an obvious example so there we go there's the Nokia n9