 Hi, I'm Vlad with The Verge and I'm here with the Nokia N9. This is the first and unfortunately only MeeGo Hamilton device for the consumer market. It measures 12.1mm in thickness which isn't competitive with the latest smartphones just in terms of measurements but in terms of look and feel the N9 is actually one of the best phones I've handled yet. It really has great feel in the hand. It also comes with an 854x480 AMOLED display. It comes with a clear black branding that Nokia applies to its displays. It has awesome viewing angles. Terrific colour reproduction. There is a slight issue with the white and light greys when you look at them from the side they tend to have a blueish 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 half way 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 where you can access your apps and switch between them very quickly. Performance is generally very snappy and very quick but loading in some applications can be occasionally slow as you can just see there with the music player. The preloaded games include Real Golf 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. Zoom rates are 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 no other phone really is. Performance browsing through the pictures again is very quick, very snappy. Pinch to zoom is buttery smooth. No issues whatsoever. The same is also true of using it in the browser or in the preloaded maps application. One cool thing about swiping, this is the way you dismiss applications. You swipe them away from one of the edges of the screen. You can 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 close all. So it all works very well. You can have a four card view or a nine card view. The browser when you first get into it brings up your latest and your most visited websites as you can just see there. The onscreen keyboard is also terrific. It really works very well. There's haptic feedback which actually works and helps user experience. Browser performance is again very quick. There is no flash support but again pinch to zoom, scrolling, very quick. There's an elastic animation there when you reach the end of scrolling or pinch to zooming. There's the unlocking motion. You can swipe your lock 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 a Pentile matrix. There's a pixel arrangement which has been an issue with previous phones but looking at it here in close up you just can't tell. There are basically no issues related to the Pentile 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 phones that use it. Apple's iPhone is an obvious example. So there we go. There's the Nokia N9.
 Hi, I'm Vlad with The Verge and I'm here with the Nokia N9.
 This is the first and unfortunately only MeeGo Hamilton device for the consumer market.
 It measures 12.1mm in thickness which isn't competitive with the latest smartphones just
 in terms of measurements but in terms of look and feel the N9 is actually one of the best
 phones I've handled yet.
 It really has great feel in the hand.
 It also comes with an 854x480 AMOLED display.
 It comes with a clear black branding that Nokia applies to its displays.
 It has awesome viewing angles.
 Terrific colour reproduction.
 There is a slight issue with the white and light greys when you look at them from the
 side they tend to have a blueish 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 half way 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 where you can access your apps and switch between them very quickly.
 Performance is generally very snappy and very quick but loading in some applications can
 be occasionally slow as you can just see there with the music player.
 The preloaded games include Real Golf 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.
 Zoom rates are 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 no other phone really is.
 Performance browsing through the pictures again is very quick, very snappy.
 Pinch to zoom is buttery smooth.
 No issues whatsoever.
 The same is also true of using it in the browser or in the preloaded maps application.
 One cool thing about swiping, this is the way you dismiss applications.
 You swipe them away from one of the edges of the screen.
 You can 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 close all.
 So it all works very well.
 You can have a four card view or a nine card view.
 The browser when you first get into it brings up your latest and your most visited websites
 as you can just see there.
 The onscreen keyboard is also terrific.
 It really works very well.
 There's haptic feedback which actually works and helps user experience.
 Browser performance is again very quick.
 There is no flash support but again pinch to zoom, scrolling, very quick.
 There's an elastic animation there when you reach the end of scrolling or pinch to zooming.
 There's the unlocking motion.
 You can swipe your lock 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 a Pentile matrix.
 There's a pixel arrangement which has been an issue with previous phones but looking
 at it here in close up you just can't tell.
 There are basically no issues related to the Pentile 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 phones that use it.
 Apple's iPhone is an obvious example.
 So there we go.
 There's the Nokia N9.