The N950 is the beautifully crafted, but sadly developer only counterpart to Nokia latest commercially available MeeGo device, the N9. Running MeeGo Harmattan, the video below gives a detailed look at the UI, along with the dialer, contacts, web browsing, Facebook, the camera settings, turn by turn navigation and a whole host more.

This expansive 17 minute video (in Thai) will get you better acquainted with the device you just cannot have.

The main differences between the N9 and the N950 are that the N950 receives a slightly smaller battery (1320mAh rather than 1450mAh), uses a 4″ LCD rather than a 3.9″ AMOLED, packs a full QWERTY hardware keyboard and after the FCC got their hands on it, it was discovered the N950 also has a 12MP camera on the back rather than the 8MP unit found on the N9, all interesting stuff but you still cannot have one, so check out the video below, maybe get some popcorn too, its a long one but a good watch.

Video Review Below!

The Nokia N9 certainly made a great first impression and a lot of people are eager to get their hands on it. Thats why Nokia put up a webpage, that should help you find out when the device becomes available in your area. Interestingly though, the Finns seems to have no plans of releasing the N9 in some of the biggest markets in the world. Some of the countries, which will surprisingly miss on the MeeGo smartphone are USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada etc.

Incidentally those countries are the ones rumored to be in the first wave to get the Nokia first WP7-powered device - the Sea Ray. It seems that Nokia does not want its two flagships competing against each other.

You can check out this link to see if your country will be getting some MeeGo love from Nokia or not. And do not forget that even if its not you can always import the handset from elsewhere.

We bet many of you are curious what the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 camera is capable of. Well, you can stop searching for leaked camera samples right now, Nokia has just released untouched official ones.

As it turns out the N9 camera produces really nice shots with lots of resolved detail and nice lively colors. The effects of the large aperture (f/2.2) lens are easy to spot in the shallow depth of field. This makes it easier (as far as easy is at all applicable to cameraphones) to separate the focused objects from the background.

The Nokia N9 processing seems really mature, though it cannot completely make up for the smaller (compared to the N8) sensor. For example the N9 does not render out-of-focus areas as attractively as its Symbian sibling.

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The 8 megapixel snapper at the back of the Nokia N9 might not be as much of a selling point as the 12 megapixel monster that the N8 packed, but that doesn't mean that its development took less effort. If you doubted this fact, you should definitely check out the interview with the Nokia Senior Manager for Solutions Planning Damian Dinning.

The man who played a key role in developing the imaging experience and the camera/video quality for a series of Nokia flagships including the N95, N86 8MP and, of course, the Nokia N8 camera, stepped on stage to reveal some of the secrets that the N9 snapper hides. Here are some of the key points that Mr. Dinning talked about.

Now you might have noticed that earlier, but the N9 camera is not exactly 8 megapixels. The number MeeGo flagship sensor actually has 8.7 million active pixels and an unorthodox 1.45:1 aspect ratio. This allows it to shoot in both 4:3 and 16:9 modes without much resolution loss.

So while the N8 loses a quarter of its 12 megapixels to produce a 16:9 image, the N9 only sacrifices 1.6 megapixels to go widescreen. The price that the Nokia N9 paid is that its unable to shoot at its full 8.7 megapixel resolution at all and 8 megapixels is the best it can do. Check out the illustration below to see how this actually works.

We try to bring you as much news as possible about the new Nokia N9 because we are excited about the device and the platform, even if Nokia is not. So when we came across a whole stash of interesting facts about this phone, we could not resist posting it here.

Website ShootSpeak has compiled this list of facts about the Nokia N9 and if you want to read all of them we suggest you hit the source link but here are the ones we found the most interesting.

• There is currently no way to create folders in the main application menu although it may be added later.
• You can close applications instead of just minimizing them if you swipe from the top of the display instead of the side, although this function has to be enabled first from the settings menu.
• N9 can play Flash videos in the video player, along with other formats such as MKV up to 720p resolution but it cannot play Flash videos in the web browser due to a lack of Adobe Flash player plugin.
• The N9 has hardware support for an FM radio but currently there is no software for it, although it can be added later. This is similar to the N900, which too shipped without an FM radio application.
• There is a possibility that the homescreen will be open-sourced so that its functionality can be increased by adding widgets and stuff.
• Colin Guiles, Executive VP of Sales for Nokia, said in a meeting with Malaysian journalists that the N9 will be retailing for $600 and $749 for the 16GB and 64GB respectively, although the prices could change later.
• Games can include the ability to disable the swipe feature to prevent accidentally minimizing the game while playing.
• The camera architecture is open on the N9, so third-party camera applications and RAW access is possible later on.