Tried uploading this exactly 10 years after the Nokia N9 was announced.. Which nostalgic Nokia would you like to see on the channel? I'll do my best to find and feature it :)
I loven it, but was too Hard to learn and it missed google play store. If nokia wuold continue whit this, iPhone wuold be dead atm. Better hardware and software.
Yes the UI looks way ahead and better than the old Android UI just compare jellybean or KitKat with this UI u will definitely Notice the huge difference
This phone was so ahead of it's time. It's my favorite phone ever. No other has made such an impression on me as a mobile geek. Took a long time till other brands stole all of the ideas Nokia introduced with the N9. Still makes me angry thinking about what happened to Nokia by the Trojan.
Yes, of course you're right and they were amazing! But no, it will not happen. HMD Glabal is so conservative, their design language makes me think of old Volvo and Saab cars here in Scandinavia.
@@oskar6747 HMD is Finnish, it was founded by former Nokia executives after Microsoft took over and they bought what was left of Nokia back from MS.
It's crazy that Nokia N9, a phone that came out in 2011 still looks better and is more practical in some ways than half the garbage Android phones out here. It's UI and functionality is still awesome! As for the software, you can clearly see how much Google and Apple stole, sorry, "borrowed" from...
@@sheenpc LOL..of course sure they did…because excuse me, heaven forbid that there were other OS versions like Windows Mobile, BlackBerry 10 and a few others that were better and more innovative back in the day than Android and iOS. For some people who drank the cool aid it just doesn’t compute. In a normal world Android and iOS would long ago have disappeared and been forgotten. But hey money, power and influence count…so now as consumers we are stuck in this binary choice of OS with no variety…
@@abcun17 Android and iOS succeeded because of first mover advantage. Not with money power. And in those days Nokia, Microsoft and Blackberry were more powerful than Google and Apple. Can’t they use their money power. It’s all because of ignorance which they failed. Once Steve balmer mocked Apple for iPhone. They took it lightly and refused to change according to the changing market scenario. Thus all the developers went to Android and iOS. Then the old giants later realised that they need to change. But it was too late. So the developers didn’t accepted them. It’s because of the app ecosystem Android and iOS is hard to beat now. Which ever player who comes up with new OS should support Android apps. Otherwise there won’t be any developers who rewrite apps for a new operating system which has only few users.
20 years ago, I bought my first mobile phone. A Nokia 5110. I held on to it almost 10 years, and got a Samsung. But I kept it, and I was bonded to it so much, that I still use the Nokia ringtone on my Samsung today. Anyway, the old champ still works, I bought a new battery for it, and it works just like in 2001.
My first was a 2110 about 30 years ago. Almost all of my phones were Nokias until n95. Then I switched to Samsung because Elop destroyed everytrhing and after few Galaxy S phones I switched to Oneplus. I don't know what's going to be next. Maybe Jollyboys, if they get a phone to market at the time I'm upgrading. Or an supported Xperia.
Never got the chance to use Meego as it was not launched in India,but got to use Lumia 920,somewhat a refined version of Lumia 800. Really love your content as you bring nostalgia back. Love you
To me this is the best phone ever made. Owned one of this back in the days. It felt ahead of everything else back then. At the same time it was very user friendly. The design was just perfect.
A friend had the N9. I've seen the phone in person, it's display is really something to talk about. My sister had the Lumia 800 which was almost the same hardware as the N9. The 800 still lies around at home ❤️
There is no phone in the world that I adore as much as this one. Since then I had a couple of other phones but none of them compare to this amazing device. The Design is brilliant inside and outside. The Color Design was years ahead! This came out while iPhones had iOS 4 and Android was on Honeycomb. Just look at screenshots how those looked. This phone is 10 years old and could still be confused with current devices. I just loved this device. Gestures 8 years before iPhone and multitasking like no other device so far. I wish there was a new version of this with newer hardware, i would definetely get one!
I still remember seeing an ad for this phone and falling in love with the design so bad that when I was able to finally buy a phone, i bought the lumia 730 whose design was inspired from this phone.
I totally agree with you , I was going to buy the L735 in 2017....because I fall in love with N9 and lumia 800 design , but I didn't buy it due to the bezels , they are so provocative comparing to N9 , what's about you ?
@@Analucia-qw1wc N9 design was way better than 730/735 in my view. But 730 was the only option in my budget at that time that bore at least a little resemblance to the N9 design. I bought the 730, and I still have it packed somewhere. Which phone did you get though?
Hi again Yeah i totally agree with you the L735/730 cheaper than the the N9. I think to buy Lumia 920 or 1020 yellow color , sadly usely I find only refurbished, and rarely when I find new ones . Recently I found L1020 on ebay , but I have to find a middleman since I don't have a card to buy it ( visa , mastercard , PayPal 😵😣)
This is a phone that I am still mad that I never got to use as a daily driver. Would love to see a revisit of some of the old Lumias (like 925) if you haven't done them already. Also wouldn't mind a look back at some of the E-series devices, loved those back in the day
Yeah it's insane. Meego (The Nokia developed linux-based OS the phone used) was so much ahead of its time. I bought this phone when it came out and it's the best phone I've ever used, relative to its time. I'm a bit of an enthusiast in these things, and had the Nokia N900 before this, and I loved Maemo (the linux-based OS that the phone used. It later became Meego). This was the first, and for a long time, the only fully gesture-based UI in a real phone, and they really nailed it.
I was just watching one of your older videos and bang, notification of your new video comes. Nokia N9, full of Nostalgic beauty😍😍😍😍😍 Why not a Nokia E6…🙂
N9 was my first personal phone back in 2012 but I didn't know much about the phones then, but when I watch reviews, I wonder how amazing the phone was it was way ahead of its time. I truly miss my phone.
I didn't have this phone at the time in 2011, but I bought one in excellent condition on ebay in 2020. It works perfectly, looks great, it's the KING of my Nokia collection.👍👍👍❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
The most impressive thing in this mobile is its touch response. Very smooooth... If these devices could come with Android, it would have made a great impact on Other smartphone manufactuters. Still love Nokia for its build....
android is shit, just like windows for pc is, and both will ALWAYS be shit because of the one glove that tries to fit 100 different palms/hands. why u want mediocrity?!
What a great product! I would buy this design today over most phones out there, The seamlessness and attention to detail is incredible. Wouldn't mind opening and closing the charging ports for a more seamless look to the device for sure! Super work done ny the team who put thought and attention to this device! Kudos!
I'm still in search of this phone ❤ Nokia n9 the beast ❤ if anyone have this phone please let me know I'll buy from you want to use as a daily driver ❤
I miss this legendary smartphone: all-day battery life, color sharpness, AMOLED display, noise canceling feature on microphone, Dolby on speaker, and other features. This time Nokia has lost the characteristics, no more than other Android smartphones.
Nope. One of the big selling points of this phone IS the unique software. Using Android would just make it like every other phones. Blackberry tried moving to Android and they lost their uniqueness in the process. Didn’t work out too well for them…
Can't believe the N9 is 10 years old! I'd love to see the Nokia X series (Nokia X Platform) on this channel Otherwise, great video! Really feels nostalgic
Theming and icon pack, it's easy. frameworks, that's a tough job unless you have heavy support like Huawei's Harmony that seems to be AOSP fork rather than ROM
Nokia have to understand what is a customer need . If now a days Nokia releases a updated version of symbian bele or meego . People will definitely buy that Nokia device
@@kelvs45 they had ego clash with android. meego needed to get establish from scratch windows was more promising compared to meego. but problem with Windows was it wasn't open source.
It breaks my heart that when it comes to Nokia, all we're left with today are nostalgic memories. This was a company that dominated the market back in its day.
Such a refreshing feeling to look at these iconic devices 🙏 thanks Abdullah ❤️ Also could you get your hands on the N93, the Handycam one? That was such a unique phone ❤️
If the development still continue for MeeGo system, I bet it can be one of the popular OS with iOS and Android.... Nice video! Keep up the good work! Want to see more nostalgia Nokia phones video from you :) XpressMusic Supernova L'Amour ...
I had this phone, and even today I still miss it. I loved that it had an always on display, maybe the first I saw with that feature, and back in the days that was awesome. Sadly, nokia went with windows.
If there was one phone Nokia should have kept producing and releasing new versions of, it would be this one. Imagine this phone design with a modernized MEEGO OS, and a Modernized Version of the camera module from the Lumia 1030 or Pureview 808. It would have been amazing!
It should be remembered that the move to the Windows OS was initiated by Nokia's CEO who had come from Microsoft which subsequently bought Nokia's phone division for a knock down price. I still have my N9 which I bought upon it's release in the UK.
TROJAN HORSE meaning: 1. Greek Legend in the Trojan War, a huge, hollow wooden horse with Greek soldiers hidden inside that is left at the gates of Troy: the Trojans bring it into the city, thinking it a gift, and the soldiers creep out and open the gates to the rest of the Greek army, which destroys the city. 2. If you describe a person as a Trojan horse, you mean that they are being used to hide someone's true purpose or intentions. [Stephen Elop is seen by some as this kind of evil. ]
I had this one from ebay because it was not available in India to purchase. They were promoting Windows phone one year later. Best phone ever in terms of the feeling it gives. Swipe was very addictive and fluid.
This really looks like a potential contender to IOS by original Nokia , I always feel Nokia may have taken some bad decisions but one problem for them was they really were way too ahead for it's time and understand this kind of technology. I wish original Nokia innovate and bring this os and hardware back with whatever they need it to be more futuristic like a 2022 flagship or premium mid ranger. Also with as many original team members and employees they can bring back and whatever they need to set up a mobile division with latest technology.
It was originally designed to competed with android and ios at the time, and I think it would had won the major part of market share for what it was and what it could do. Sadly, it was killed by “the CEO”. And the tech team tried to develop Sailfish, which is a more refined version of Meego, but their effort was in vain.
This is modern af even by 2021 and that thing is 2011, that's insane! The UI blew out of the water by Android and iOS, but the only problem was 3rd Party App Support
I loved the n9, nothing came close to it. MeeGo was one of a kind. The swipe gestures that the iPhone and Android now enjoys, Nokia already did it. If Nokia was fully committed to MeeGo, got devs on board, and hired anyone else but Steven (Microsoft Trojan horse) Elop, we would have seen follow up models. Nokia had so many fans, they would have been a powerful third player
Your channel and your videos are just blessing as I can watch this best phones of their time in 4K. I remember watching them 144p and the best I could afford was 240p on a 2.4" display.
I remember this being Harmattan UI, the very first all gesture UI alongside Firefox OS. Too bad Elop killed it for the infamous Window Phone. It took Android to reach it's version 10 to have similar gesture after going left and right. If only HMD has that will, HMD could have ported the UI into Android... But.... Whale.... We know the outcome....
@@gywghhb agree... WP UI was interesting for being very efficient and cool look, but ... 1. Google decided not to support it 2. 2 times OS update without any upgrade path to WP7 then WP8. This one is Microsoft's own stupidity.
@@gywghhb yes i read some of the early review. From the get go, the die hard WP fans were throwing their towels for Microsoft being soooo inconsistent and even depraved it's own WP and made far better apps for Android and iOS. 2 years ago interestingly Bill Gates lamented that misfortune in an interview. Regret comes always late...
I used it till the last apps died, and it is still the phone I love today. No other phone came close to the synergy of hardver and software like this phone did.
This phone and meego was the future. It was way ahead of its time. Gestures only just catching up now even. Meego should have been used instead of windows but truth be told Nokia really should have jumped on Android. Even by 2011 the 2 legged race had already been won by IOS and Android. BB10 and windows just didn't stand a chance. Even palmOS went down around this time, BB10, palm0S, meego were all way ahead of iOS and Android at the time. I remember a reviewer from the verge saying that the N9 is dead on arrival. He described it as a unicorn beast of which the world will never see again. I bet he had no idea what that statement really would truly come to mean years later.
microsoft ceo joined nokia and butchered meego development and forced nokia to use winndows os, was working in nokia when they did this announcement, was total disappointment
@@sunnyteki even went to the lengths to develope Here maps. Nokia really could have achieved its ultimate goal. Maybe with meego but certainly with Android. Nokia had it all from music to various other apps. Really was a case of corporate disruption. And of course when the XXXX hits the fan, all these people like Elop and Balmar are nowhere to be seen.
Oh my. I remember playing with a retail demo N9 at a StarHub shop back in the day, but then I already had and was too accustomed to the iPhone 4S I had at the time. The UI was quite cool!
@@AbdullaZaki Yep! However, I had to miss out as I couldn't afford to get one without a contract, and I could only afford the phone I had because I got it on a contract that had yet to expire at the time. I also could only afford to get a phone on a contract and plan from M1, the service provider I actually used and still use. I was very much a teenager at the time, attending secondary school, and that was also during the dark ages of my life, where I was a very different person to who I am today.
I had a HTC One X over this at the time, the main reason was due to the app ecosystem. But guess what? Halfway down the line, I bought my very first N9! And boy was it an experience! Also a huge thanks to the Maemo forums and it's contributors for creating customs apps to make it usable even back in 2014!
Tell me your definition of the Smartphone. I have used N9 back in the days and I can tell you that it was very smartest. Man if they had continued with this OS I would be have been keep buying them.
'MeeGo is a discontinued Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation, using source code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel) and Maemo (produced by Nokia)' Yup, definitely a smartphone. Miles ahead from android that time, especially with that now very low end specs(compared that to modern low end android of today). With features only adopted later by modern mobile OS.
I'm a hardcore Blackberry 10 user and I see similar swipe features. Love the open apps window, not sure why iOS and Android can't to the same. It shows that the the fastest CPU isn't the way for true multitasking, it's software optimization.
I fell in love with it's design that it's hard for me to find a phone more beautiful than this... The features are so cool and smooth, the downside when I had this phone was the availability of apps...
