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Nokia launches the world's first button less smartphone

Nokia launches the world's first button-less smartphone

By Sahil Mohan Gupta | Updated: 15 June 2012 15:11 IST

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The N9 will boast of some other formidable features such as an Unibody design, a 3.9-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 854x480, a 8-megapixel autofocus camera featuring a Carl Zeiss lens with 720p HD recording capabilities, NFC (Near field Communic

At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore Nokia unveiled their first MeeGo based smartphone the N9.

Interestingly the device will feature no front-facing hardware buttons making it the world's first button-lesssmartphone. Users will just need to double tap the display to activate the phone instead of pressing a hardware button.

The N9 will boast of some other formidable features such as an Unibody design, a 3.9-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 854x480, a 8-megapixel autofocus camera featuring a Carl Zeiss lens with 720p HD recording capabilities, NFC (Near field Communication), Dolby surround sound and 1 GB of RAM.

The device will be come in two variants, one a 16 GB and a whopping 64 GB one. The N9 will be available in three colors black, cyan and magenta.

The use of the MeeGo operating system will be a departure from Nokia's aging Symbian platform. It will feature a carousel-like view for the home screen with the space divided into calls, applications and social media. Users will be able to now swipe from edge-to-edge of the display to switch between applications making the user interface intuitive in-comparison to Symbian, which required users to go through various steps. MeeGo will feature a powerful web browser based on the webkit engine.

Previously, MeeGo was supposed to be Nokia's next generation platform but in February Nokia entered into a landmark partnership with Microsoft which resulted in Nokia adopting Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform in process rendering Symbian obsolete and leaving MeeGo's future in doubt.

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