Originally Posted by smoothc

First post to explain the 'easy' answer. Give me a code and ill give you my sister and a goat

Originally Posted by egoshin

Touch screen is sensitive although Nexus-S may have a little better sensitivity - while typing on screen I had a couple of errors, definitely more than Nexus-S but it may be counted to slightly different virtual KBD size and layout.

However, both buttons - UP/DOWN and POWER are located on the same right size, in N900 style. Plus POWER button is bigger (regular size) and it is difficult to avoid pressing it while keep N9 in left hand. At least I accidentally switched N9 off once. I am surprised why Nokia didn't put it on any short side.

(no host USB ). The adjacent SIM slot is actually a hole with SIM card holder (regular SIM for development edition which I played, it should be microSIM in production).

No visible way to open a body but SIM card hole has an adjacent screw deep in hole. There is no even thin gap between screen and body.

Forward camera is in right down side.
But I didn't noticed GTalk (may be lack of time or it is hidden in "messaging"), skype is a separate.

The downside is - it has only one home screen to place your widgets. In comparison with N900 all windows are sharp and you can see that is going on on any.

I should say that there is no Adobe flashplayer and (probably) - no Java (N9 is HTML5 based), so his result seems to be 50-50.

Multitouch works fine in browser and maps but browser wraps up only with some pages

Map was designed specifically for driving, at least Nokia people stated that. It seems fine in 2D and good enough in 3D. Positioning works with any GPS standard (A-GPS etc) and it may use "WiFi positioning" - I think it is a Google-like WiFi positioning. Maps for your continent are preloaded before device will be shipped to you and it can be used offline, w/out cell-phone coverage(!).

Also they said it has all 5 mobile world data frequencies and in fact only CDMA and Japan phone variants are missed.

Device has an embedded "development" setting - then I pressed it downloads 20+MB and Terminal apps occurs.

Originally Posted by kevloral

I have just found out that the NFC support the N9 has is severely crippled. It does NOT support SWP.

NFC in Nokia N9 Won’t Support Mobile Wallet or Payments

Therefore, it is essentially useless. I had said I was going to buy one next September in Oulu. Not anymore. What a pity.

"Nokia's view is NFC is about more than just mobile payments," says Englander. "We're probably a little while away from being able to go into a shop and easily use our mobile phone to pay for things with NFC. We think the phone as the mobile wallet, where it's simple to buy and it just works, is 12 to 18 months away. There are various trials out there and some services, like Orange's Quick Tap, but there are restrictions, like you have to be an Orange subscriber, a Barclaycard customer, and can only shop in certain places.

"NFC mobile payments won't take off until these barriers go, and while the recently announced UK joint venture for NFC between Telefonica UK, Everything Everywhere and Vodafone will help take those barriers away, it will take time to come to fruition," he reasons.

On the C7, Englander adds: "There was no standard in place for secure NFC payment when the phone was in production, so I think rather than wait, Nokia put an open, unsecured chip in the device, and decided to go to market with open NFC propositions like tags and Bluetooth pairing."

"Using open NFC, we can get more people engaged in using their mobile phone in a fun way, getting them used to using their technology in this manner, and in the meantime we can get everything ready together for mobile payments."

Originally Posted by klop

guys, i know i maybe losing my own chance of winning an N9, but considering i'm sick, and i want somebody to figure it out and be happy about it (if i think it is what it is).

in the official rules and regulations statement i noticed something weird. some words are spelled with a - in between and it doesn't make any sense.

so i wrote all the words down with a - in them:

world-wide
child-ren
gov-ernment
fed-eral
dis-cretion
inelig-ible
privacy-policy
mo-bile
e-mail
trans-fers
rele-vant
contest-related
e-mail
non-exclusive
royalty-free
sub-licensable
de-scribed
ap-propriateness
non-infringement
ap-propriateness
non-infringement
objec-tionable
publica-tion
contami-nating
infra-structure
promo-tional
e-mail
per-form
defama-tion
information
non-authorized
cor-rupt
opera-tion
2-4
sco-ring
op-erators
ser-vice <- this one has to be up front somewhere but i can't remember where.

let me know