Nokia just put up a countdown timer for the N9’s release on their Swedish site [translated page]. According to the clock, it’s due out in 49 days, which we had to count down to September 23rd. We almost felt good that we managed to track down the Meego-running smartphone’s definite release date (it took a whole lot of counting), until we remembered that they already announced that the N9 was launching on September 23rd in Sweden last month. Oh well.
Nokia gave out a launch date for the N9: it’s going to be out in Sweden first on September 23rd, from service provider 3. Probably not that much use for you if you’ve been waiting for this phone to come out (unless you’re in Sweden or happen to be in Sweden in late September), but at least you know when to start counting down since it’s sure to launch in other markets from this point. Pricing info still isn’t available, but it should be safe to expect this phone to come with a premium price tag. MeeGo-running smartphones with a 3.9 AMOLED screen protected by a nice, curved glass front, an 8MP Carl Zeiss camera, and Dolby Digital audio don’t come cheap. Actually, no one knows that for sure since this is Nokia’s first MeeGo phone, but yeah, the rest of the spec? Definitely not cheap. [via Electronista]
Nokia released details about a phone called the N950, a developer-only version of the just-released N9. They didn’t come out with a photo so we’re not exactly sure what the phone’s going to look like – and unless you’re a software dev interested in working on MeeGo apps, you’re probably never going to see this phone anyway – but going by the descriptions, it’s likely that we’ve already seen the N950. We just thought that it was the leaked “N9” photos when we first saw it.
If you’ve been following Nokia’s smartphone developments since 2010, then you might have heard of the long-rumored N9, a MeeGo-running device that’s been spotted rocking a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard. Well, the Nokia N9 is officially out now, but with a huge part seemingly absent. It still runs on MeeGo (making it the first ever smartphone to run on the OS), but they did away with the keyboard, along with every other button. The result? The N9 looks awesome, rocking a slim frame and a button-less front filled seemingly end-to-end with a 3.9-inch screen.
The mysterious Nokia N9… news rumors of this phone have been on and off since last year, but we’ve yet to see any sign that it was actually going to be launched. Actually, the last time we heard of it was in a report that Nokia already axed the phone last February. That’s until it turned up again in a leaked teaser video [check it out after the break]. Besides the telling form factor that all but confirms that it’s indeed the Nokia N9 that we saw in previous leaks, the video didn’t give out specifics. We did manage to spot a few details though.
