SlashGear’s Nokia N9 Review (+video) – double punch of compelling software and beautiful hardware.

SlashGear’s Chris Davies has published his Nokia N9 review.

http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n9-review-23190157/

It’s a whopper of a read. Here’s the highlights of the text review. There’s a video too!

•  Chris notes Nokia’s usual excellence in hardware in previous devices, just lacking in software, often wishing it had Android.
• Now on N9. Hardware, “Nokia has certainly excelled itself with the N9”.
• NFC Works surprisingly well
• N9 – a shining beacon of what MeeGo could have been
• MeeGo feels like it has been designed with multitasking and social integration from the outset.
• whole interface is awash with neat little animations and usability tidbits, all with touch at their heart.
• Lists spring and bounce when scrolled to their end, and there’s no lag to be encountered in swiping
• N9′s 1GHz single-core handled things well, though occasionally we’d see a little sluggishness as apps loaded.
• (in comparison with flimsy touch on Symbian) great to see that Nokia’s software engineers do actually know what they’re doing with touchscreen technology
• Nokia doesn’t stint on preloaded applications with MeeGo: the N9 comes out of the box with just about everything you’d expect from a recent smartphone
• The on-screen keyboard is particularly good, offering both portrait and landscape variants and supporting a sharp haptic buzz that does a great job of feeling localized to your fingertip.
• Maps - solid alternative to Google Maps Navigation on Android
• Camera – end result is excellent. Video clips solid if not outstanding.

• Radio performance – something Nokia getting consistently right.
• Battery – lasts till the end of the day with a fair chunk of juice for the next.
• “It’s not often we review what’s effectively a dead product.”
• “Our frustration is that the N9 doesn’t deserve to die.”
• “Nokia has delivered a double-punch of compelling software and beautiful hardware: a device that earned curious, envious glances while we played with it in public, and a platform that was both instantly usable and consistently slick. “
• “We can’t blame Nokia for the direction the company has chosen – there’s more to it than mere software; Windows Phone gives them a platform, a developer ecosystem, and the might of Microsoft among other things – but we can be more than wistful that the N9 and MeeGo came that little bit too late to have their true worth recognized.”

http://www.slashgear.com/nokia-n9-review-23190157/

Category: Maemo, MeeGo, Nokia, Video