Trick your Nokia N9 into landscape mode with a simple modification [VIDEO]

In case you were a Nokia N900 owner who upgraded to N9, we have some good news for you. A simple software tweak will enable your Nokia N9‘s homescreens to go into landscape mode, thus bringing you some good ol’ Maemo memories.

The modification is unofficial and takes no time to setup. It enables you to view all three homescreens in landscape mode, as well well as switch them with a swiping gesture. Check it out on in action below.

Would you go ahead and enable the function on your Nokia N9? Tell us in the comments’ section below
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Video Nokia N8 runs Symbian Belle

The video shows Belle run smoothly on modest hardware of the N8.

Some screenshots from the clip. Photo: Gsmarena.

Whether to February next year, Nokia N8 is officially upgraded Symbian Bell, but a video on Gsmarenathat new platform for machine appeared.

The ROM code 111,030,609, or 10.1 Symbian quickly even on the N8 680MHz processor. This is not the first road run on N8 Belle clip, but this Nokia handset running smoothly, and most full-featured.

Nokia N9 European pricing confirmed by online stores

A Romanian online retailer has listed the MeeGo-running Nokia N9 for €550 on pre-order. If you want a more trustful source, Amazon.de takes pre-orders, too, but it's demanding €620. This Romanian retailer is taking the N9 pre-orders for €550 (a hat tip to Robert S. for pointing it out). For a gray market price it sounds reasonably for the launch, although it's more expensive than most of the high-end droids today. The German Amazon also has the N9 on pre-order, but it's even more expensive - €620.

So these prices should give us the basic idea of what to expect at Nokia N9's launch.So these prices should give us the basic idea of what to expect at Nokia N9's launch. It will cost a small fortune for sure, but we bet it will drop price in a month or so. After all the N9 is a smartphone with limited availability and doubtful support, so pricing should reflect that. Update: We also received a tip from a trustful source that Nokia N9 will launch in Norway at €570 (incl. taxes) near the end of this month.

Nokia N9 nine second adverts leave us briefly wanting MeeGo [Video]

Nokia has released a series of new videos squeezing adverts for the N9 into a mere nine seconds, pushing the idea of the MeeGo handset being particularly convenient and easy to use. The six clips – which you can see after the cut – give a very brief view of Swype, browsing, social media, maps, the camera, and the N9′s “all-screen design.”


According to Nokia, the ad team decided a regular 30 second slot would be “far too slow-moving,” hence these somewhat frenetic clips. Whether you would learn enough about the handset from them to actually leave you wanting to buy it – if you hadn’t heard of the N9 beforehand – is arguable, though.
Nokia’s message has been somewhat mixed in its launch of the N9, with the handset announced with great excitement and then quickly followed up by the first “accidental leak” of one of the company’s Windows Phone devices. It was widely suggested that Nokia leaked the Mango handset – which closely resembles the design of the N9 – purposefully, so as to diffuse complaints that the company should have stuck with MeeGo rather than look to Microsoft’s OS.
If we were of the cynical persuasion, we might wonder whether a phone – and platform – so easily made lustworthy in just nine seconds could suggest that there’s a whole lot more potential to MeeGo than Nokia is currently taking advantage of. You can find more on the N9 in our hands-on report, with some longer, slightly more comprehensive video demos.

Nokia commits to N9 support; “several” updates in pipeline

Nokia has confirmed it plans to support the MeeGo-based N9 “for years” and that the company’s software engineers have “several SW updates” planned for the niche handset. Nokia head of portfolio management, Klas Ström, took to Twitter to assuage concerns over the N9′s longevity, with would-be buyers seemingly keen to pick up the smartphone but wary of Nokia’s change of allegiance to Windows Phone.


Whether those reassurances will be sufficient to make the N9 a sales success remain to be seen, though there are signs that Nokia itself has only moderate ambitions for the MeeGo phone. Previous leaks have tipped small-scale production and modest sales projections – something Nokia itself has declined to comment on, naturally – with the primary focus remaining on Windows Phone 7.1 Mango.
Nokia has said that it sees MeeGo development as a test-bed for future disruptive mobile technologies, though it’s unclear exactly how many of those will find their way out to the N9 and any other devices running the OS that Nokia releases. The company is yet to commit to a specific launch date for the N9; check out our hands-on report here.
Nokia N9 hands-on


[via IntoMobile]

Nokia N9 photos look REALLY good

I am not a Nokia fan at all. The only Nokia device I have ever owned was a free phone a carrier gave me years, and years ago with one of my first wireless plans. I am still seeing little that would talk me out of my iPhone or an Android device for a Nokia today. What I will say is Nokia knows how to make a camera phone. The camera on my iPhone sucks to the point that I only use it in a pinch and then the photos are just not very high quality.


Nokia has been talking a lot about the camera module that its new N9 smartphone uses over the last few months. A week or so back we talked about Nokia boasting that the camera on the N9 was the fastest around and that it supported NFC image transfers. The key factoid in that claim if fastest camera is that the N9 cam can be on and ready to use in 2.9 seconds. The next closest was the iPhone 4 at about three seconds.
With all the talk about how fast and high quality the camera is the thing that I and a bunch of you really want to know is how the photos look. Nokia has posted up a complete gallery of photos taken by the N9. The photos are not edited or adjusted at all according to Nokia and are just as they came from the camera. The pics look really good. One thing that I really want to know I don’t see a photo to represent is how fast the shutter is. I can’t take a pic of my kids with the iPhone if they are moving because it won’t snap the photo before they are out of the frame. Check out a few of the gallery pics below, which I did resize for our website. The originals can be seen at the source link.