Nokia Unveils N9 Smartphone Using MeeGo

Nokia disclosed Tuesday its new N9 smartphone that runs the MeeGo operating system, and is being marketed as a "pure touchscreen" device without buttons.

The N9 will launch later this year, and the company leave release later the device's pricing and availability in versatile markets, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop aforesaid at a company event in Republic of Singapore.

Nokia said in February that it would establish a future smartphone strategy around Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, to help the society compete against Apple's iPhone and handsets using Google's Android operating system.

The company said it would still bring out during the year a smartphone with MeeGo, a Linux-settled OS developed in collaboration with Intel.

The Windows-based ware is regular to ship later this year, Elop said. Nokia had earlier same the product would embark by the fourth quarter.

Nokia also restated its committal to the Symbian operating system at the consequence. The company said it will start shipping Nokia N8s, E7s, C7s and C6-01s with the unweathered Symbian Anna software update in July. By the end of Honorable, existing owners of these devices can also download Symbian Anna. Over the next 12 months Nokia plans to bring up to 10 new Symbian-based smartphones to market.

Nokia studied the N9 equally an "all screen" phone with a 3.9 inch display that covers most of the front side of the device. No nursing home button is made-up on to that. Instead, users navigate back to the national view by simply swiping crossways the edge of the phone's screen.

People want more screen on their earpiece, and want to represent able to expend their phones when happening the move, said Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia's senior V.P. for design. That requires the phone to offer better handed use, and the ability to view all info at a glance of the phone, atomic number 2 added.

The N9 features an 8-megapixel camera. It besides uses near-field communication technology. During Tues's show Ahtisaari showed that the device can easy synchronize with a Bluetooth headset, simply past having the phone reach out the earphones.

The call will come in three colours: clothed, chromatic and magenta. In that respect will be two versions available with storage at 16GB and 64GB.

The design of the N9 bequeath follow carried impudent to other smartphones from Nokia, Elop aforesaid.