14 DAY TRIAL // The first MeeGo-based smartphone from Nokia, none other than the all-touch Nokia N9, is set to make an appearance on the market in Australia as soon as October.
The Finnish mobile phone maker has just announced the official arrival of this device on the market in Australia on the airwaves of three wireless carriers, namely Optus, Telstra and Vodafone, as well as via all major retailers.
Moreover, the company confirmed that the new device will be released in three color flavors, namely black, blue and pink, and that it will sport a RRP (Recommended Retail Price) AUD$799.
The new Nokia N9 smartphone was unveiled to the world at the beginning of June, and sports a 3.9-inch AMOLED touch screen with a ClearBlack display, making all colors more vivid that on other panels.
The new mobile phone also comes with an 'all-screen' design, which means that there will be no physical home button on it, and that users will have to take advantage of touch and swipe gestures to navigate around the homescreen.
“The Nokia N9 is where form meets function- this is a sleek, stylish and highly intuitive smartphone, offering customers a device that looks as good as it feels,” said Ross Parker, general manager of Devices and Pricing at Vodafone.
“The N9 will be Nokia's flagship device for 2011 with good reason, and we are thrilled to be delivering the N9 to our customers on Australia's best value mobile plan range, Vodafone Infinite.”
The Nokia N9 was also unveiled to the world with an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, with Carl Zeiss optics, wide-angle lens and HD video capture capabilities.
Moreover, the new device sports NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities, which provides users with the ability to share images and videos between devices as long as they are near one another.
The mobile phone also sports a user interface designed mainly around things that users do the most, such as using apps, socialise and multitask. The handset features three homescreens, arranged in a carousel.
“The first homescreen is for accessing your apps; the second for social networking, calling, texting and calendar; and the final screen shows which applications are open. The screen can be pinched or zoomed to show either four or nine open app icons,” Nokia explained.