I feel with you man, but rest assured you will soon be joined by many others in this experience.

I was trying to take a picture of my wife in front of an ancient harbour with some light plastic bag of noodles hanging on my arm.

The phone, which identified immediately as slippery b!tch, flipped into my in my rather dry fingers as I tried to reach for the on screen shutter button and made it's escape downward the beton tile floor..

I caught it almost against my belly, but it jumped away again, then I had nothing in my hand, no phone on the floor.

We discovered the phone hanging between my jacket and the light grocery bag.

Marginal adhesion to nylon and cotton

Since I had raised my voice "don't touch the bag" my wife smiled: "there we go being the servant of the next shiny toy".

This was my first weekend. Never happened with N900 from which I confidently take pictures out of vehicles from hight or from my riding bicycle.


This N9 has certainly an auto-destruct mode by design. A HW Camera shutter button would surely help to prevent dropping of the phone when rushing to take pictures.

Who was the idiot that decided against a "string attach hole" (sorry don't know the word in EN - to save design / production costs - read what is applicable)

Note that this phone has the ambition to be called "object of beautiful design"
Since design ask for being exposed I use only the Nokia certified carying case (that cost me Euro 27)

http://europe.nokia.com/find-product...3-for-nokia-n9

Should read: Protect your Nokia N9 from damage and dirt *when you don't use it* with this sleek CP-553 carrying case.