Video: Angry Birds on the Nokia N9 (AND another huge Nokia N9 hands on gallery)
Chris Davies from Slashgear has a Nokia N9 to play with (not sure what press event) and has posted his hands on. In this you’ll find a huge gallery of the pink, blue and black N9 as well as a hands on video demo.
http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n9-hands-on-21160524/
In that demo, you’ll see Angry Birds out of the box ready on the MeeGo platform.
There’s other games installed too:
As you can see in the video, Chris tries out to see if landscape is supported but it’s a little limited (quite the mirror of early N900 that did only landscape and no portrait – unless induced by a bug). When it is present, you’ll be greeted by a pleasant rotation animation.
Browser’s very cool and all…what happened to Flash though?
The multitasking gesture makes multitasking so easy. No longpress or double tap, just swipe and bang you’re multitasking these windows.
Also check out Chris’ gallery. http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n9-hands-on-21160524/
It may help you decide which colour you most prefer for our poll: Black, Blue or Pink?
www.slashgear.com via http://mobilesguruji. Cheers for the tip, Ricky!
Category: Applications, Games, Maemo, MeeGo, Nokia
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funny that people seems to do be scared of swiping when they demo those phones. Beside you do not need to swipe out from the screen just edge where picture ends.
Also I don’t know why they swipe from edge when going between the the 3 basic home screens. that you can just swipe from middle same as move in web page in browser.
Those 3 pages are 1 big page actually like windows phone has. they just do not have any graphic design that makes those 3 home screens look like 1 area.
Do you work at Nokia? How long have you been playing with this?
long time and that why those videos looks funny. That screen is very sensitive and looks like they press the screen with force. You can actually use other side of your finger and use your nail to scroll.
and use your nail to scroll.
So the rumuors were true about the touch screen
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/13/nokia-hints-well-see-first-windows-phone-7-device-this-year/
The WP7 concept looks to have similar Polycarbonate and curved glass design
Seriously it’s resistive and capacitive?
No it is just sensitive that even nail has some electricity make it touch effect.
The C6-01 screen can conduct electricity even there is a 1mm gap between the finger and screen.
Wonder that is a good or a bad thing.
So is it the same principle with the N9? lol
Exactly what I was wondering – why must you swipe from edge to edge as it seems as though you can accomplish the same by simply ‘swiping’ the screen regardless of where on the screen you start. I realize that when the N9 was demoed at the conference, the Nokia presenter swiped from edge to edge, it just seems as though it isn’t necessary to do so in order to get to the next screen.
it will slide if you release your finger no need to swipe all the way. If you slide it only for 10-20mm and do not release your finger it will pop-up the short cut menu.
there was an youtube icon, looks like an official youtube app for the n9!? btw what about flash support in the browser?
Only possible problem for people in this UI swipe gesture can be when they swipe content example web pages they can accidental swipe too near from end of the screen and swipe out the app instead of just scrolling web page.
Mostly that is only problem from left/right than top/bottom as there is less surface area for finger and more likely to touch those pixels that will take it as “swipe away gesture”.
maybe the n9 has 4″ but only 3,9″ are visible/usable and the rest 0,1″ is there to prevent accidental swipes
Finger is like 15mm wide. When you have screen for about 50cm wide from left to right and when you scroll web content it can happen.
Anyway it’s not easy task to make that work and also have buttons near bottom side of the screen. I know I did play with first ones with swipe away gesture and well it was what it was first.
I hope Nokia has made that code in their IP portfolio how the phone is reading the touch information between pixel information in screen.
Does the N9 finally have multi-touch keyboard?
yes I think it has that also.
In that email/messaging screenshot, the button to add more recipients looks dangerously close to the send button.
Well spotted! Does anybody know whether Skype will support video calling, like the N900?
no. it mentions only voice at swipe.nokia.com > applications
Wonder what the hell is wrong with skype..
we want to see a browser focus, if there is flash ecc…
Strictly speaking of hardware and physical looks, this phone is sexy! There does seem to be noticeable lags in some areas though (I’ll forgive, though. Every OS has lags).
I know I’ll get flamed for this, but I need to say this observation. Ever since Apple and Android have been out, one of the biggest complaints people have mentioned was the fact that the app menus aren’t organized. They’re just one huge (icon) list of everything on the phone. Meego appears to be exactly the same way, but I haven’t heard/read 1 complaint about that. Why the double standard? It appears that if another OS does it, it’s an unorganized mess. But if Nokia does it, no problem. I’ve noticed this in other areas as well (e.g. iOS’s lack of flash, but Opera is the way to go on Symbian). Flame away. But you can’t tell me I’m full of it.
yes sure, the lack of folder is a disadvantage. but its the very first version of meego/harmattan and i think we can expect this feature to be added by future fw updates. its not an THAT important feature if you ask me
On talk.maemo.com an N9 developer said they’re already working on folders for it, so it’s likely to be there once the N9 comes out.
This guy actually, assuming he doesn’t get fired first for talking about something other than WP7: http://konttoristhoughts.blogspot.com/2011/06/respect.html
Much respect to him!
Sounds cool. I don’t want to be a harbinger of bad news or sound negative, but I would caution people about the prospects of Meego going too far. The developers may say this is coming and that is coming, but I made the same mistake w/ Symbian^3, and I’m still waiting for the new browser and fixes for push email. More importantly, we KNOW how Nokia feels about Meego. They only consider it an “experimental” OS to see where the next “disruption” (whatever that means) will be. Just a friendly caution to those putting all their faith into Meego.
True. I wouldn’t have recommended the N8 end of 2010 to my friends if I had known it would be THIS bad with the updates.
I guess what I meant is that it least does not seem to be a random manager deciding any kind of icon management is not “pure” enough (perhaps same guy who thinks homescreen swiping in S^3 should not follow finger
Anyone know if you hold down the A or O on the QWERTY you get options of Æ, Ø and Å?
Because need that in my stupid native language…
You can swipe from english keyboard to your own language if its included in that harmattan language list. Actually you can all languages they have and swipe between keyboard to keyboard what ever language you need. if you only select one then there is no swipe between keyboards.
I am not sure about long press functions in that keyboard. Can’t remember as I have no use for that feature when typing.
Well, if you ever touch the N9 again.
Could you tell me if Norwegian is listed?
Can’t really remember what languages there is and I would think that is something that will change as long as they get localisation done.
I would think there was all Scandinavian languages.
There’s no need to hold down either A or O because it will support your native language in both menues and on the keyboard.
I’m surprised to see a decent QWERTY keypad (landscape and portrait) in this. Hopefully the reason of delaying Anna is to incorporate the MeeGo QWERTY style into it.
It very similar in layout. The latest build is SO close to this MeeGo layout.
MeeGo is starting to look more and more basic.
Can you play video in the background?
Why don’t the music player or the video rotate?
Why do I want to play videos in the background?
Who uses music player in landscape anyway or see videos in portrait?
Maybe you want to listen to the news, don’t need or want to watch the video, just listen to the audio.
As for the music and video, maybe you don’t want to constantly rotation the phone around?
iOS does both of the above.
As does Android and I’m pretty sure RIM is the same way.
With Maemo, you could get a different media player that would play video in the background. I’m guessing that it will be the same with this phone. There is, as always, a balance between “power user” features and the KISS philosophy for most people.
The great thing about a linux distro is that it will be very hackable, so power users can go to town. I believe that Nokia has been wise to make this UI so easy for the baseline. I’m sure that it will be days not weeks after release until there are hacks for:
Right swipe for most recent app
Left swipe for multitasking
Bottom swipe for applications
Top swipe for notifications
and many other convenient things. The trick is to make it simple enough not to scare people away. Once people are comfortable with the UI, complexity can be added.
I can’t believe I’m replying to the mynokiablog troll here…
Symbian 3 rotates b/w landscape and portrait for almost everything.. it is nice. Does MeeGo do the same ? I mean, even in the menu/main screens ?
well I can see sina weibo and kaixin…so fast move……，
We want Nokia to keep MeeGo
http://twitition.com/3c3ah
just saw this… please do vote, i don’t know but maybe this can affect nokia just give it a try and share to others…
does anyone know if this phone will be available in south africa?
The N9 browser scores 257 points + 14 bonus points on html5test.com …yay …!!! (my n8 scores just 111)
watch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GbxrtHOrP4&feature=player_embedded#at=478