Nokia N9 first hands-on!

The N9 has arrived. Functional units of Nokia’s long-awaited MeeGo smartphone have finally landed into our eager hands and we have now a gallery of pictures to produce you with below. What we are able to say from our first experience is that we’re inside the presence of a fantastically designed device with a good looking AMOLED screen and a few highly responsive performance. Hold tight as we’re updating our fuller impressions after the break, where you will soon be treated to our first hands-on video with the Nokia N9.

The N9 UI, as you’ll need learned from the product announcement, is Nokia’s Harmattan skin atop MeeGo 1.2, that is built around three core home views. The central one is your app organizer / launcher, to at least one side of that you have a notifications and activities section — to be able to be populated by phone calls, calendar alerts, and social network updates — and to the opposite you get a live app switcher. Double-tapping the screen wakes the telephone up after which you could unlock it with a swipe in any direction. Similar swipes, ranging from one fringe of the screen and going to the opposite enable you to exit apps into the house screen. What we will say about most of these aspects of the interface is that they are done exceedingly well and make the somewhat aged OMAP3630 processor look terrific. Fluid animation are evident throughout, navigation is natural, and this marks a prime advance to the rest Nokia has given us at the software front when it comes to touch-based UI.

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