The Nokia N9 (codename 'Lankku', Finnish for
"a flat plank of wood") is a smartphone made by Nokia based on the Linux MeeGo"Harmattan" mobile operating system, the first from Nokia on the MeeGo OS. It was released in three colors: black, cyan and
magenta, after Nokia announced on Nokia
World 2011 the white version of the phone it was available before the
end of the 2011 year.
Histoy
The successor of Nokia N900,
internally known as N9-00, was scheduled to be released in late 2010,
approximately one year after N900 launched. Pictures of the prototype leaked in
August 2010 showed an industrial design and a 4-row keyboard. A software
engineer working for Nokia's device division cited the N9-00 (the product
number) in the public bug tracker for Qt, an open source application
development framework used in MeeGo. This design was dropped; then Nokia
started working on the N9-01, codenamed Lankku, a new variant without a keyboard.
Nokia N9 was announced on June
21, 2011 at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore. At the time, the phone was
presumed to become available to the public in September 2011. Users can get notified via e-mail of
the availability of N9 in their country at the webpage of the Nokia Online
Store. Since Nokia closed its
Nokia Online Shop in many countries, including France, Poland, Spain, Italy,
Germany, United Kingdom and the USA on 30 June 2011 availability in those countries will
be in the hands of retailers and operators.(...)