Nokia N9 camera in action

Watch the Nokia N9 camera in action in videos bellow. In first video you can see 8MP Carl Zeiss camera lens is use while recording video and taking pictures. The camera resolution measures: 3248 x 2448 pixels for 4:3 ratio, 3248 x 2160 for 3:2 and 3552 x 2000 for 16:9. There’s digital zoom up to four times and the camera focus range is from 10 cm to infinity.

In second video you can see HD video recorded with Nokia N9.

The video recording frame rate of N9 is 30 fps. There’s the continuous auto focus, geotagging, dual-LED flash, automatic motion blur reduction, face detection and exposure settings of various types. 

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Nokia N9's camera isn't fastest?

When Nokia released Nokia N9, they said that N9 will have fastest camera in mobile world, which is 2.6 seconds.
HTC wouldn't agree with that.  In video bellow you can see that HTC Sensation needs only 2.39 seconds in first try, and 2.21 seconds in second try to take successful photo. We can see that HTC is working hard on improving their cameras. As Nokia always had best cameras at market, this is not good news for them.

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Nokia N9 Maps and Drive

Here are some pictures of Maps and Drive on Nokia N9. As you can see on the pictures bellow, there is a search option where you can search for different locations, as your current location is shown when you load up Nokia Maps first time.
Of course, there are options to search through categories for things like transports, shops, companies, objects, food and drink, museums, etc.
If you want car navigation, then there is Drive, Nokia separate application used for car navigation.
So, Maps will find places where you want to go, and Drive will take you there.

Watch pictures gallery bellow:
Maps:

Drive:

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Download Opera Mobile 11 for MeeGo Nokia N9

Opera have released Opera Mobile 11 for Maemo, MeeGo and Windows mobile phones, which include Nokia N9.


Take a look what is new on Opera Mobile 11:
Features

• Modernized new user interface
• New UI optimized for tablet devices
• Faster framerates when panning and zooming
• No checkerboard, ever
• Text stays sharp during zooming
• Improved text-wrap on zoom
• Smart-tap, auto-zoom and highlights links if ambiguous link click
• Incremental zooming for devices w/o multi-touch
• Buttons for jumping to the top/bottom of the page
• Haptic feedback (if supported in hardware)
• Share URL on social networks, email etc
• Improved Geolocation support
• Session restore

Rendering

• Presto 2.7.81
• JIT for greatly improved Javascript performance (was supported in 10.1 on some Symbian devices)
• Adobe Flash support (Android only, Flash player available separately in Android Market)
• Click-to-play, load Flash content on demand only
• Application Cache
• WebStorage and WebDatabase
• DOM touch and multi-touch events
• HTML5 Audio/Video
• Support for CSS @viewport
• Improved support for meta viewport
• Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
• Support for Arabic ligatures
• Improved form fields skin

Symbian specific

• Support native clipboard on Symbian 5th ed and Symbian^3
• Support for half-screen keyboard on Symbian^3 phones
• Added Thai, Hebrew and Arabic fonts
• Added localization for Malay language (APAC build)

MeeGo (Nokia N9) users can download Opera Mobile 11 by visiting labs.opera.com.

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Nokia N9 browser - What it brings

Nokia N9 browser will come with support for HTML5 video and CSS 3D. Tests have shown that the speed of N9's browser is even better than the speed of some desktop browsers.


Unfortunately, and this Nokia will not have support for Flash. Some people will miss that, but on the side, 
there are many websites that deliver video content through HTML5.
Here is a full list of browser technologies: 
- CSS 3
- DOM Level 3
- HTML over TCP/IP
- HTML5
- Javascript 1.8
- Webkit 2 based
- XHTML
- XML

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Nokia N9 release date

There is a rumor that Nokia N9 will be available for sale on September 23rd 2011. Nokia didn't reveal the price of their newest device yet, but pricing and availability will be announced closer to the sales start.

If you can't wait for release date, you can check availability of Nokia N9 for your country on official Nokia page.

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NFC on Nokia N9

New Nokia N9 will come with NFC, but many people doesn't know how will that work exactly? Let's start.


NFC – or Near Field Communication –  is a technology that enables the transfer of data over a short distance, typically between 4cm or less. So, we’re talking about touching your phone against another to send or receive files.
The Nokia N9 isn't the first Nokia phone that comes with that option.  The Nokia C7 also has the hardware on-board for this feature to work.


The Nokia N9 will have the ability to pair with other NFC devices, such as the Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-505, or various NFC enabled photo frames.
You can even send your contact if other phone equipped with NFC isn't manufactured by Nokia. There are also some NFC-enabled games, such as Angry Birds Free with Magic.


Sending photos from your Nokia N9 is performed in the same way as contact sharing, however only videos filmed from the Nokia N9 can be shared. Meaning any other videos you may have will have to be transferred using alternative methods.
There will be upgrades to the NFC features that will come via future software updates. These will add the ability to send documents of various types and URLs from your phone to another.
Now watch video bellow to see how it works:

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Nokia N9 - Camera story

As we already know, Nokia N9 has an 8-megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss lens and autofocus and the hardware to take great photos and videos.


Since they removed the hard key on the side of the phone, Nokia created a soft key, so  when somebody loads up the camera, the camera key is located on the screen. 
The Nokia N9 has continuous auto focusing. Whenever you want to take a photo or film something, the Nokia N9 is constantly looking for a subject and adjusts the focus. When it’s in focus, the box on the screen turns to blue, letting you know you’re ready to take the shot. Also, tapping the screen in a certain area will concentrate the phone’s focus on that area.


Once you press the on-screen camera key, the image is taken immediately. It’s the fastest image-capturing phone on the market. In order to take a photo, a series of events must occur: the camera is turned on, viewfinder is ready, focus on the subject and the image is captured. On the Nokia N9, this all happens in 2.6 seconds – much faster than our competitors. For example, the HTC HD7 does all this in 8.3 seconds, the Samsung i5500 Galaxy 5 takes 5.8 seconds and the Apple iPhone 4 does this in 3 seconds. 


The camera resolution measures: 3248 x 2448 pixels for 4:3 ratio, 3248 x 2160 for 3:2 and 3552 x 2000 for 16:9. There’s digital zoom up to four times and the camera focus range is from 10 cm to infinity. And for filming, the video recording frame rate is 30 fps. There’s the continuous auto focus, geotagging, dual-LED flash, automatic motion blur reduction, face detection and exposure settings of various types. For full phone specs click here.


The Nokia N9 also has something called non-destructive photo editing which lets you edit a photo, with a way of reversing all the edits should you change your mind. A first in mobile phones. Then you have the option to share your photos to online services, such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa or even using the built in NFC for device to device transfer.

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Nokia N9 UI and Specifications Video

Here is another interesting video of Nokia N9's User Interface (UI). You can see full specifications here.

In video you will also see some of Nokia N9's apps in action. 

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Android apps supported on Nokia N9?

We have already see that Nokia N900 was running Android apps with Alien Dalvik. Now SlashGear reports that this will also be possible for Nokia N9 running on MeeGo OS. This is a great news for everyone who was worried that there would be lack of games for Nokia N9 (MeeGo OS).

Chris notes availability for Dalvik some time this year for MeeGo, but there are no specific dates yet.

On teh other side, Nokia has Qt, and growing number of Qt apps have already been developed for Symbian^3 which shouldn’t take too much effort possibly to recompile for MeeGo Qt. Nokia has invested in developer version of the N9 (N950) not just to improve the platform but also get some apps in development.

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