Just read the cnet review linked a few posts back, and heres my take on the little they had to say. Its just me tho. Still a better review than most Ive read, even if its the least extensive review since my girlfriend said "looks cool! i like the video-slide thing. lets go shop groceries, baby".


"The swiping gesture is central to the way that you interact with apps on the phone, as well. Once you've finished using an app, you use a horizontal swiping gesture to "push" the app into the background, or swiping up from the bottom of the screen to close the app entirely."

Nope, swiping up will also send it to the background. Swiping down from the top though will close it entirely. If you set the settings just so.


"It's way too easy to close the browser when trying to horizontally realign a web page while reading text that runs off-screen, and for some unknown reason Nokia has forgotten to include a "Back" button or gesture, so once you move forward to a new webpage you can't really go back again"

Personally I never found it remotely easy to close the browser accidentally.

And as mentioned before there is a backbutton. How the ballsack did they not notice that?

Also, they neglegt to mention the cloudlike startpage of the browser that displays websites youve visited, acting like soft bookmarks of sort. Not a big deal though, theres a lot that is omitted and this is an understandable thing to neglect.


"Battery life isn't outstanding, though, with the N9 struggling to get through to the end of a work day. Granted, this is with us remaining connected to our various online messaging services for the duration, but as a core part of this handset's offering we imagine that this sort of connectivity would resemble the everyday usage of those who choose an N9."

Weird, my device holds a day and a half with no worries, and thats with me reading for several hours of the day, feeds updating on, etc. No pushmail though, and no FB chat. Maybe the chat sucks a lot of juice? Gonna try going the weekend with chat enabled to see whats up. I dont think the battery should miss out on a days use even with it, IIRC from other times Ive had chat enabled for days.


"Despite a laundry list of missing features"

I dont think they mentioned any? Did they?



edit: awesome news that we have Voddler now! go team go!