Nokia N9 in 2021 | Nostalgia and Features Rediscovered!
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
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In this video, I kind of unbox the Nokia N9, talk about some of its key selling points, and rediscover some of the hardware nostalgia that made this phone my favourite Nokia device ever.
The video covers the hardware of the N9, MeeGo harmattan and its magic, the camera, the specifications, the key features, and some of the hidden gems that made the N9 so special.
00:00 - Introduction
00:19 - Why its Special
00:56 - Design
01:17 - Unboxing
01:59 - Software Features
04:38 - Hardware Secrets
07:18 - Specifications
09:05 - Which Nokia Next?
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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 :)
Every one
I heard Nokia is trying to make a new interface. What do you want to see in the new system?
Yes
❤️🔥🧡
Nokia N73 please.
The UI is ahead of its time.
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.
I remember wanting to buy this phone , but my friends discouraged me , for it did not have android play store or something ..
something samsung is trying to do now with its one ui
Yeah from 1820s it was pretty ahead
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 design still feels modern even by today's standards.
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.
I know the feeling. Moving to anything else after it was like taking a step back in time.
@@AbdullaZaki did it had a play store
Trojan? What Trojan bro?
@@mukwayaowens2762 😂
@@Giacomo_Nerone just Google "Elop Nokia" and you'll see.
Back when every different model had thier own look & personalities
these days, phones have only one generic design, which is the iphone-ish style hardware which are ugly-looking
@@randomly_random_0 tech reviewers and social media apps destroyed Innovation
Yup
Yes exactly. In those days We could actually remember the models seeing the phones
Apple ruined the entire industry
The sweetest Nokia device ever.
Did you taste it?
Brilliant vid ,HMD should seriously look into this again!! These phones were way ahead of the curve !!
Thank you friend :)
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.
Indeed! Indeed.
@@petrisalonen4893 Aren't they just a Chinese company without any affiliation to the Nordics except owning rights to the Nokia name?
@@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.
This looks good than phones today..
Yes, the nokia phones now look really really ugly and outdated
I agree
Can't agree more. That design 😍
better than some phones*
Good mood
A decade later and the Fabula design language is still, erm, fabulous.
Lauch kab honge ye handset
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...
Lol. It was Nokia who stole from Android and iOS back then when they started to lose market to Android and iOS.
@@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.
@@sheenpc Aha….sure…
@@sheenpc Not for the Nokia N9.
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.
this is more modern looking than Nokia's current phones
Nokia has lost the ability to innovate anymore
That's because the Nokia (phone maker) as we know it is no more - now it's Chinese OEMs churning out phones with Nokia logo
@@GGoblin1 their phone designs currently are boring and generic that runs to all their models, same pattern of design with little variations
Totally
Many tech companies learned from nokia
The current nokia is not the same as the old one.. now nokia is owned by HMD Global
Almost difficult to watch this review because I miss Meego and N9 so much.
:( me too man
They got infiltrated by a trojan from MS. Could have been different if they continued with this...
@@AbdullaZaki How can i get this device? In Bangladesh.
Can we appreciate how SMOOTH and FLUID those animations are?
Imagine using an android from 2011 in 2021, it will lag big time
@@The-Heart-Will-Testify exactly
The OS that could've actually compete with Android back in the day IMO.
And nokia abandoned it. Speak about dooming oneself.
It was miles better than android...
@@x0vg5hs1
Except we are not talking about Symbian.
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
I also kept waiting for it
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 ❤️
I used it my self in 2012 my girlfriend lost the phone six months later I love the machine master piece
Nokia is a emotion it's camera in lumia days was pretty awesome and near to natural tone
Absolutely loved this phone. I only buy Nokia phones even to this day. I wish Nokia would bring this back but with Android as the OS.
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…
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 love the user interface 😁
Down the memory lane once again :) I've never been so in love with a phone, this phone is ahead of its time. If more resources were put into develop the OS, I'm sure it would have been a great alternative to Android and iOS.
Me too man.. Hope I managed to convey how much I love this phone haha
As we see it here in Finland 🇫🇮 it wasn't an OS problem. The problem was apps (or lack of them) because US giants Google and Apple had their app stores winning the game with tremendous support to bring all kind of apps to their stores. I still remember how Nokia couldn't answer to that. Same story later with Microsoft onboard, Windows Phone was actually very good but it came too late to make any difference, and lack of most popular apps was the main problem again, resulting in failure and the death of Nokia Phones.
you mean Ios and Android would be great alternative to Meego?
@@petrisalonen4893 well Android and ios managed to surpass Nokia after Burning memo, before that Nokia ecosystem had more apps than IOS/Android. Nokia managed to sell 400 million phones every year from 2007 to 2010 so developers did care for Nokia that time. like whatsapp was anounced for symbian first before android. estimated number N9 managed to sell 5m units, for a flagship phone which wasnt sold worldwide and no marketing budget thats a lot, i do believe Meego would succeed,
windows phone at early point managed to give android serious pressure in lowend, lumia 520 outsold even galaxies, at that time android was know as lagdroid, meego could give smoothness of windows phone and freedom of android together with nearly perfect multitasking
The problem is Nokia didn't want to go too cheap. If Finland is Will to produce meego, and allow other phone manufacturers to use meego in their line of production things wouldn't have been so messy
Your channel deserves more attentions! 🇰🇭💖
thank you :)
Idol មកមេីលMeego OS ដែរ😍
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!
Thats why its my favourite phone of all time.... Android and iOS still don't look this elegant even today.
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.
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
E series... I will definitely be covering that as soon as I can :)
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.
Like someone else has pointed out this UI was the best at the time. This kind of easy to use UI came like 8 years after this to the iOS and Android.
absolutely love the design... always have since its first launch... wish Nokia would release their new phones with this design again...
Damn man this brings back tbe feeling of those days when there was quality music good products
my favorite Nokia is still Lumia 925, that was just a beast of a device with awesome design and when it was fairly new, I remember people loved it when I let them hold it in the hands
I had one, I loved it too but mine would get too hot easily and battery life was miserable.
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 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 😵😣)
nokia was actually ahead of its time
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…🙂
E6... Maybe :)
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 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.👍👍👍❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
That's all we need today nokia fans. That kind of phone.
Nokia ❤️. look at the design , still challenge to 2021 smartphone
Zaki bro uyir🔥
This was my dream phone, Sad to see that i never owned it😭😭😭😭
Yeah like me in 2011 😓😓😭😭
@@yasserchazzali8831 we are same bro 😖😖
Me too
Lol
😔😔💔
I got it back in Jan. 2012 and still using it as my daily alarm😂
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 have nokia lumia 925
@@balavignesh8500 price ?
@@ajayghosh4720 you want to buy mine?
Oh bro, How are you? I am your subscriber.
One of the best mobile and operating system combo.
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'm glad you think so. Thank you :)
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 :)
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I Need a comeback from Nokia Lumia series. Loved the plastic colorful back with an aluminium frame.
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 ❤️
Will try to feature as many cool phones from the past as I can :)
stumbled upon this channel just now... nice content and presentation
Thank you :)
Never clicked any video so fast, that's the first smartphone i bought!!!
I wish HMD made these type of phone with android
Nokia N9 the love of my life ♥️
Enjoying them very much, thank you
It's amazing to see things that are way ahead of their time
The Nokia E71 is my all time favorite with its stainless steel construction. It felt so capable back in the day.
I covered the E71 in a video :D
@@AbdullaZaki which one? I'm subbing
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.
This is really great. Good work
I’m a Nokia fan too. And it’s really sad to see a company like that fall.
Thank you :D
Ur videos are always interesting and nostalgic
Thank you!
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?!
Nokia is world best you are also best. Brilliant video
The iconic one, please keep it shining.
Thanks for making the video. God bless you. 🙏❤️
Nostalgia 😭 NOKIA please come back,,,
Nokia: niet
We need this kind of interface in Nokia android phones.
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
I also need this in Nokia Android
Actually Meego's UI is great, but I also want a modern version of Symbian Belle :D Bring back SYMBIAN!
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
@@satyadipansikdar4951 Are there any enthusiast out there keeping Meego alive and updated?
Design..... Oh my... Gooood
Great stuff my guy! I have a question regarding Nokia 5.4. Can you tell me how does audio sounds from the earphones that comes from inside the box? Really curious to know because I'm about to buy 5.4 soon
Legendary nokia ❤️🔥
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.
Awesome Phone Man, These phones are much Durable than other Budget blowers. Good Video Bro. Good Luck!!!
Far ahead of its time !!
Imagine if Nokia didn't switch to Windows phone and sticked with Meego.
exactly
@@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.
My childhood dream phone.😍
Great video on one of the most loved smarty from Nokia !
I had one but unfortunately got broken. Could you be kind enough to let us know that does the feed screen is still capable of pulling feeds from Facebook, Twitter & other apps. and hows the browser working and also hows the 3G connectivity of this device working on these days over 4Gs networks. Thank you.
Very useful: thanks. My next phone.
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.
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
Absolutely. But apparently they were running out of money quickly and had to jump ship. Sadly we saw what happened
That's cool, we still have my dad's copy he got at launch, has his name inscribed on the side. The phone is no longer in use but my mom maintains it's the best phone she's ever used. Nice to remember this lol
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.
I remember having my nokia 500, which updated to symbian Belle
I really dream to have one back then
Revived my memory👍🏼👍🏼
I finally bought a Nokia N9 today and I’m so happy!
In my personal experience, Nokia N9 is my favorite among all my Nokia collection.
Man... The design is so futuristic and way ahead of it's time.
I love the design.... Those sharp edges ❤️
It's a great tribute.
This was my dream phone before. N9 was ahead of it'ss competition. It's an iPhone killer. N9 was dead on arrival though. It's Nokia's fault.
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....
Windows Phone has some revolutionary UI only for it to be killed by Microsoft, so Nokia was doomed anyway
And most likely the UI along with the hardware designs are the IP of Nokia and HMD didn’t acquire those when they acquire the hardware business
@@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.
@@erick-gd7wo same thing happened when they decide to released W10 Mobile (let’s face it, W10 Mobile was nowhere as good as WP8)
@@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 feel like we lost someone who close to to watching this. Thank you for making our childhood awesome nokia.😢
This was way ahead of its time.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to N9
Happy birthday to you 🥳🎂
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.
The display and design are awesome.
Great video!
Where from do you get these phones anyway? I have wanted an N8 since eternity and that wish is still unfulfilled! 🥲
Thanks. ebay, but its refurbished so it won't work flawlessly.
@@AbdullaZaki works for me. Too bad eBay doesn't, in India. 🥲
Still looks better than today’s smartphones.
HMD should return to N9 or Lumia form factor. Their current design is kinda boring to me, I can imagine if they make a flagship phone that follows N9 or Lumia 1520 design with modern touch.
How perfect 😭...We want MeeGo🥳
Amazing phone in an amazing video.
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!
The maemo community was truly amazing!
This is definitely one of a best phone, not smartphone, in the history of phone. Inspired design with an OS that only run on this phone.
N9 was smartest phone
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.
This was my dream phone..so nice UI and build
i loved the hardware design