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.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.[3] This design was dropped; then Nokia started working on the N9-01, codenamed Lankku, a new variant without a keyboard.[4]
Nokia N9 was announced on June 21, 2011 at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore.[5] At the time, the phone was presumed to become available to the public in September 2011.[6] Users can get notified via e-mail of the availability of N9 in their country at the webpage of the Nokia Online Store.[7] Since Nokia closed its Nokia Online Shop in many countries, including Poland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and the USA on 30 June 2011,[8] availability in those countries will be in the hands of retailers and operators.[9][10]
In August 2011 Nokia announced that Nokia N9 won't be available in United States.[11] Other reports tell that the device won't be available in such markets as Japan, Canada and Germany.[9][10][12][13][14][15]
Nokia posted on the official blog in the last week of September 2011 that N9 phones are heading to the stores. The initial retail price was announced to be around EUR 480 (16GB) and EUR 560 (64GB) before applicable taxes or subsidies.[16]
In Germany, devices imported from Switzerland are available online from Amazon and German Cyberport GmbH. In January 2012, they were also made available in some major stores of the Saturn Media Markt chain.[17]
In February 2012 Nokia N9 appeared on the Italian Nokia site, which is supposed to be a sign of N9 being in official Nokia distibution for the Italian market.[18]
Prices in January 2012 were, depending on the size of the internal memory, between 500 € and 630 €, being higher than the Windows Phone-based Nokia Lumia 800 and in the same range as the Apple iPhone 4s.
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