N9 has it's many flaws as already pointed out in many threads here including this one, but these days there seems to be too much of negativity. N9 _has_ it's good points compared to N900 (or iPhones or Androids).

Speed and smoothness. This feels so much better after N900 system wide general slowness (yes yes, N900 OC'd and all).

Swipe is the most intuitive UI there ever has been for a touchscreen device, even with it's quirks in some specific things. It is so good that I think it will become a standard in a way or another (yes, patents may prevent this but I hope not, and RIM and Apple might have something to say about it too).

Multitasking still rocks. People are too afraid of keeping their stuff running background. I admit that you just have to know the ones that are heavy on battery, and it'd be good to have some kind of "battery friendly" label stamped on programs.

Browser, while lacks settings, works very fast, very smooth and accurate. The forced main column text size is actually pretty good, and I never had it this readable on MicroB (font sizing setting didn't work that well in MicroB, and often not at all and portrait was useless). Opera has it's very bad design decisions too.

You can keep 3g data always on, and it uses much less battery than on N900. (Unless you happen to meet the bug of stuck 3g-connection due bad roaming.)
Constant 3g data is important because N900 was so fricking slow in fetching the IP every time you needed internet fast, and having it always on used up battery fast even when there was zero traffic.

MfE and email client generally. So much smoother and faster. Calendar actually works with Exchange. On N900 something always forced calendar sync off 8 times out of 10, even after I had cleaned up account on N900 and all possible broken items on server side (indeed, even all items).

One hand usability. Now I can text in a crowded bus. It was technically possible with N900, but since the options were cumbersome, didn't support scandic characters or did use up awful load of memory desperately needed by OS elsewhere, I chose not to use virtual keyboard options.

The standby screen clock. This is priceless. Many of us need clock all the day, and the era of big phone screens kicked us in the nuts on this, but at last I can check my clock without pressing any buttons. Handy in the meetings, your very private moment with a big white phone etc.

Size and slimness. Again something you enjoy all the time.

The looks. Just look at it. At last it is on par with Nexus S, SGII and iPhone, beating them all in my opinion.



Too much negativity is bad because everything in today's phone devices can be countered, just depending on ones use case. The looks equals to no bezel and thin, curvy glass, but the side effect is less protected screen. These kind of things is what happens when you put style, touch usability and general durability into the same scale. With regular design the swipe would not work as well, nor the looks of the device would be as good. So durability in form of bezel and out of the harms way flat screen with it is out of the window. Some durability might be gained back with curved glass, as it resists bending inwards in pocket against keys and plain hits, but since they have it so thin in favour of looks, it probably is not enough. Again with plastic and pressure sensitive screen (otherwise my preference because of unmatched precision) getting it curved and thin enough wouldn't work.