It is just another Nokia unsupported platform with an extremely good UI.

Looks impressive in hand.

Light weight.

Has navigation.

there have been some complaints about the screens somewhere in TMO so not sure about the build quality.

I was almost going to buy it but then I thought I wont something which is not supported by Nokia and MeeGo project is closed.

It doesnt even come with punctuations beyond masses of exclamation marks so the answer is NO!!!!!
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On a more serious note:

You could get your hands on a 64gb device if youre aching for storage space. Personally I use dropbox, picasa, spotify, etc. so I really dont need a TON of space.

Anyways...

Ive gone from N97 to N900 (my GOD that was great...) to N8 (hmz) to SGS2 (YAY!) and now to the N9.

I can, hands on my heart, say the N9 is by far my favourite device.

To start: the N97 was horrible. Enough said.

The N900 was amazing! Albeit... slow on normal functions, no portrait, battery for me at least was meager, and the capacitive screen had its pros and cons.

The N8 was Symbian3 so that was its own hell to deal with, but faster as a phone so I stuck with it for a while.

SGS2 was amazing. Insane screen, fast as all hell, H+ connection, dualcore, customizable UI, the works. Kind of a hassle to work with several apps at once though... The thing I missed most from my N900.


Then the N9.

Screen is about as good as on the SGS2 imo, when Im not sitting half an inch from the display LOOKING for flaws. Its better than SGS2 in direct sunlight, its clear, crisp, and the way the content looks close against the screen looks pretty nice. IMO much preferrable to the N900s screen all in all.

UI is very well done, appswitching is fast and effortless, which brought a sigh of relief to my worried heart after N8 and SGS2.

I still, after all this time with the device, can sit reading my ebooks, halfsliding the screen to check notifications and the time, switching over to Opera Mobile 11.1 by drawing a B on my screen with a twofinger gesture (which I installed through terminal not long ago), checking the forums quickly, before switching to feeds to see if something interesting has popped up on my feeds, and juggling back to my book, all the while having my books TVshow soundtrack playing, and looking down at the nice screen and the great feel of the simplistic design of the device in my hand, I just... kind of smile, and go:

"damn, I love this phone".



TLDR: get one, its nice.

The biggest down sides for me are:
1) Lack of memory card - 16GB is small but could not think about the amount of money wanted in the US for the 64GB version
2) Limited applications and no access to community repositories similar to the N900, installing applications is easy without the store but the repos made updates easy.

The vkb is pretty decent, the feedback is nice although autocorrect still needs some work.

The screen is beautiful - I have mine at 20% brightness (lowest setting) and its perfectly visible.

The lock screen clock and notifications are pretty awesome - a small thing but something you do not find on many other devices (except symbian). The UI is pretty georgous and snappy, I have encountered a few lags here and there but overall it is very resposive - the few people I have demoed it to here have loved how it looks and how it runs.

From the limited pics I've taken so far the quality of the camera is great although this is to be expected with the zeiss optics. Swiping in the UI is very well done - again try watching a movie or playing a game and swiping away slowly to watch the app slide away while still playing as you slide (very impressive). For a single core processor this thing is great from what I can tell - I had an Xperia X10 temporarily before with Android 2.3.3 on it and that thing routinely ground to a halt with a 1Ghz processor!

Contact integration is as good as the N900, skype quality is crystal clear!

Its light, the screen is great, the device is beautiful and very well made... I am a long time maemo fan (770, n800, n900 and n9) and I struggled with buying this as Nokia have let us down so many times in the past and did again by dropping the N9 in favor of WP7 but I do not regret buying this.

I had considered getting the galaxy nexus and followed the android herd which would have been great from a support and apps standpoint but I like the uniqueness of this device and always loved the maemo.org community support and apps too! Having an open OS on a phone is really nice even though I dont really do anything with it... XDA for android is also great but having to hack roms all the time was getting old!

I've owned mine now for 6 days and I agree with Slai - Damn I love this phone!

Says you.

...and you immediately mark your opinion out as being not very valuable by saying "only has a 1Ghz cpu".

What does that mean? Without context, nothing. Have you used an N9? To recycle an analogy I have employed elsewhere on these forums, an American muscle car might have a 6 liter engine, but when you try to turn the corner it's crap, and it weighs twice as much as a European sports car with a tiny engine which will thrash the US monster. I'm looking at you, Android and iPhone 4S.

I'm holding an N9 in my hand right now and it is fluid and smooth, even with many concurrently running apps.

As for the no card slot, sure, that's a disappointment... but a deal-breaker? Not even close.

Depends what you want, but if you force me to Yes/No I will say a strong Yes! I bought one and I am thrilled with it.

The N9 is an amazing day-to-day device for, you know, keeping in touch with people, listening to music, taking photos, browsing the web. Dunno about you but I like to do all that stuff every day. The user experience in all of those areas is better than anything I've had before, including the N900... and I'm still on N9 PR1.0

Of course, for server admin tasks or anything which has a hack-y sort of flavour, the N900 is a far superior beast. To recycle and expand upon another one of my analogies used elsewhere on TMO:

• the N900 is a pickup truck: tough, functional, not very pretty, and perhaps not ideal for day-to-day living in the city, but it has a winch, incredible towing power and you can do all kinds of crazy stuff with it
• the N9 is a Maserati Quattroporte S. Not many people have one, but it turns heads and kicks some serious behind. Yes, it's quite expensive and has some quirks, but these minor complaints pale in comparison to what a joy it is to use. It is fast, it looks as good as anything out there, and people will be jealous when you have it on display - and I'm talking real people here, not just geeks

I've been waiting for a long time for the N9 and I'm almost overwhelmed by how good it is. I recommend it.

Geez, I always thought that I could pass on the N9 (being happy with the N900 and all), but after reading the last couple "testimonies" I'm about to pull out the credit card!

I tried buying one of the B-Stock, last night when I saw the post on Endgadget.

They sent me an email saying that my credit card's address was wrong (some stupid screw up on their part, even though I had just barely fixed it (again!).

So at 11:17am this morning, I got an email from Expansys saying that my card was declined. I called them up, corrected it... then got home just now and saw an email from them saying it was no longer available??!? wtf?

slaapliedje

I'd buy a N950 without any doubt, but I'm addicted to qwerty I guess. So that makes me undecided :/

I am still expecting some surprise from Nokia, "We decided to sell them !!"

if you need to be convinced to buy a N9, then don't!
You can try one in a phone shop for free!

Many times, I feel it's not worth the effort to flip open the keyboard. The VKB pulls up quickly and it's easy to type, especially after recent updates it seems much more accurate

I'm in the middle. I'm having great success with the battery life - better than some unfortunate others, and I'm a fan of the UI and the phone portion(s) of the phone is much better than say the N900 - I actually do call people.

The screen is great. The feel and build quality is great. Hell, even the silicone sleeve supplied with the unit is great.

Here's my problem with the phone. It's as small as an iPhone - meaning the 3.9 inch screen is rather small compared to my last few options that were 4.1 inch in the least - that's a quarter of an inch difference basically - I personally cannot go any lower. The vkb, while responsive - best use of haptic so far - I've gotten way too used to Android or WP7 where press and hold for extra punctuation is the norm. I really miss that and yes folks... I know that the vkb is incredibly flexible, but so far, I've yet to see those changes on the vkb.

I'm having a problem with Drive. It will not work for me at all. I'm perhaps the only one, but there are other apps that will not work out of the box for some folks. My updates on Twitter are seamless... e-mails though? Not so much. The fact that Android and WP7 both can pull my contacts on just one account yet I had to set up my Gmail account and a Mail for Exchange (MfE) for the very same Gmail account that housed all of my contacts... which I had to gleam from an YouTube account and not from any other official documentation.

It's a phone for tweakers, hackers and people that like to play. But it's not a "hacker phone" like the N900. I don't have Git, Capistrano, or a lot of other stuff. Heck, I don't even have reboot from command line like I did on the N810.

And to be honest, that does bother me. It would bother me if I had paid $700 for a phone that doesn't have an expandable memory, nor a way to shift pictures from camera to Twitter (it doesn't exist) or to push directly to some Drobox, Box.net, Amazon S3, or something another to just get it off of my phone and into the cloud saving me paranoia about space since I have a 16gb - Dropian might just change all of that though. I don't have Flash, nor do I have the trend graph - not the pie chart - on Google Analytics. I have to hard edit the location(s) I've used the AccuWeather app in the conf file. And I'm missing some other things - namely video Skype and an iffy issue with Google Talk... and there's no MSN, AIM, Yahoo either.

The arrows for going back sometimes are up top (browser), sometimes way at the bottom (most other apps) and sometimes I have to tap into the application just to get access to the back button. Swiping exits the app, but that's fine. It's another swipe to go back.

Multi-tasking... N9 has it. Period.

But it's a good phone. Excellent device. Has some rough edges. Will probably never get some killer 3rd party support, it works great, has a few quirks that bother the ever-loving crap out of me, but has a workflow that so far has been way more positive than negative for me. And that's after going from iPhones to Android to N900 (back) to Android to WP7. iOS is out as an option forever for me and I'm a Mac user.

I'm honestly liking my N9. Didn't even expect to - thought I'd be able to come onto these boards, trash this, gain some extra hate points and walk out with both middle fingers extended.

Nope. I'm here, I'm still learning, trying to help like 23+ more people to get a N9 so they can experience what I like and dislike about this phone.