The N9 continues to top the worldwide charts for most interesting handset of the month and thats the way Nokia made it. We waited for the first MeeGo device for nearly two years and now that its finally official we cannot keep off it. Its made to blend in top notch design and innovative build quality with a fresh out the oven OS with Nokia’s knowhow of craftsmanship and technology all into one device. A powerful combo indeed.

 

Now the official Nokia blog Conversations, is dedicating an article to the new browser of the N9, detailing how it works, how it feels, how it scores and what were the ideas behind it. Nokia-appointed browser guru Christian Sejersen shares that the N9 Meego browser was designed with the idea not to annoy its users and keep out of the way while they are browsing. So the UI is quite minimalist much like on an Android powered smartphone.

 

 

 

Nokia announced the MeeGo-based N9 smartphone last week and so far it has received nothing but praise from everyone who used the phone. Even in our short stint with the phone, we were blown away by the design, build, display and the interface of the phone and are aching to spend more time with it.

 

You would think after receiving such positive response Nokia would give more attention to MeeGo, which is partly the reason why the N9 got such a fantastic response in the first place. But it seems Nokia does not want anything to do with MeeGo anymore.

 

In an interview with Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop confirmed that even if the N9 proves to be a massive success, there is no returning to MeeGo for Nokia. Nokia instead will be betting everything on Windows Phone 7 platform and Elop is confident that it will be well received.

 

Be that as it may, I personally think it would be foolish to abandon MeeGo completely. From what I have seen so far, people are now far more interested in the N9 than their Windows Phone 7 devices, that too without having used the device. But then again, a halfhearted support from the manufacturer will not do MeeGo any good either. If they launch just a handful of devices then MeeGo would find itself in the same situation that bada and webOS is in today.

 

So in a way it is good that Nokia is supporting Windows Phone 7 completely. That way the platform will grow, which will be a good thing for its users as well as the developers. Still its sad to know that that sexy interface on the N9 will probably be never seen on any device again.

 

 

It seems FCC has gotten their hands on the developer exclusive Nokia N950 and they have managed to tear it apart and expose its internals for the camera, which has led to a rather interesting discovery.

It seems that the N950 is rocking a 12 megapixel sensor, unlike the 8 megapixel unit on the N9. Although Nokia did say it will be different they forgot to mention it will be better than the camera on theN9, even though the N950 is a developer device.

Other interesting things that surfaced from the teardown are that the N950 has an LCD instead of an AMOLED display and a smaller 1320mAh battery compared to the 1450mAh battery on the N9, which would be fine for a developer handset.

 

Video Below!

 

 

When Nokia announced the N950 MeeGo dev kit, they did it without any fanfare without photos even. Now that injustice has been fixed and the aluminum-clad device is available to gawk at in a gallery of leaked official images.

 

 

 

 

 

The Nokia N9, the consumer-oriented MeeGo phone, got plenty of attention but all the N950 got was a text file detailing the differences between it and the N9. Sill, we know many MeeGo enthusiasts will prefer to get their hands on the developer-exclusive N950 than the touchscreen-only N9.

 

 

The images do not seem to be finalized (one of them actually has a label saying "This will be replaced with flash thingy" lol ) and we only get a glimpse of the QWERTY keyboard.

 

 

Also there are no photos of the back of the Nokia N950. We were hearing some rumors that the N950 actually packs a 12MP camera but we did not get anything solid to confirm this so we were hoping a view of the back will finally settle this dispute.

 

 

 

In case you were worried about application support for the N9, you have one less reason to worry now. Along with applications created specifically for the phone, you will even be able to run Android applications on it.

Thanks to a little something called the Alien Dalvik, a software that lets you run unmodified Android application on non-Android devices. All the developers have to do is repackage the .apk files and the applications can be used on other devices running Alien Dalvik. The application is able to utilize the full potential of the hardware and the user experience is virtually identical to that of using it on regular Android device. The software emulates the hardware controls on Android devices so the application can be controlled on non-Android devices.

 

According to Myriad, the developers of Alien Dalvik, it will be made available for MeeGo sometime later this year.