First love, the deeper you love, the deeper you hate! Exclusive evaluation of Nokia N9

The author's testimony: In 2003, I took the college entrance examination. I was admitted to one or two universities in this city with a score of over 400 points. Although my grades were not satisfactory, my parents didn't blame me, but bought me a mobile phone with more than 2,000 yuan (at that time, it was in the middle and high grade), and Nokia 610-it was mine? First love? The first love in the mobile phone.

▲ yours? First love? who is it?

In the next few years, numerous temptations made me hesitate or even cheat, but I always believed that Nokia was my final destination. Until one day, I met it, a low-key and introverted figure with extraordinary pride in his bones. I know I want it, now, now! But later, I found that impulsive choices were blind and even ridiculous. ......

Many people may think I am melodramatic, but is this really the accumulation and continuation of my feelings for the Nokia brand and the one I met later? It? In fact, it is already? Popular lover? Yes, its name is Nokia N9.

Special statement:

1. This article is exclusively original for IT 168. Please look forward to the updates of top flagship PK such as N9/i9 100/iPhone4 and N9/N8 brother-sister duel.

2. I hope everyone who cares about Nokia and N9 can express your views on Nokia and N9 in the comments below, if it used to be yours? First love? I look forward to your reply.

IT 168 Evaluation The Nokia N9, the world's first mobile phone equipped with MeeGo operating system, was born at Telecom Asia held in Singapore in June this year. In this shit? How dare you eat? In the 1990s, the appearance of a mobile phone basically decided whether it could sell well. Many people like N9. I believe the first thing is to recognize its design.

▲ Ha, forgive me for using this picture, because it really matches the title of the article.

I just saw the beauty of N9 from various photos on the Internet before, and I thought it was beautiful at that time. This is the most design-conscious product launched by Nokia in recent years. But when I played for the first time, it didn't leave me too many amazing impressions: simple lines, square outlines, only a few metal ornaments, and so on. Are these really not revealed in the photos? Star style? .

▲ Are you excited about the first experience of Nokia N9?

However, the simpler it is, the more likely it is to become? Second-eye beauty? I think N9 is this type. Maybe I'm tired of watching too many fancy products, but the low-key and restrained temperament of Nokia N9 attracts my attention more. I like its shape design, it's that simple! If I have to tell you why, I can briefly summarize three points:

1. Nothing fancy, nothing complicated, simplicity is beauty.

2. The smooth treatment of edges and corners is just right, natural and not artificial.

3. Our first love, but we have feelings? Men? ~

What? These three points are not enough? Ok, ok, I admit, Nokia got this name? Polycarbonate? Gadgets and curved screens are not bad ... (introduced on the next page)

Polycarbonate injection molding

According to the official, the body of Nokia N9 is made of one material. This one? Polycarbonate? What exactly is Dongdong? I really don't know. I looked it up online. Someone said? Polycarbonate? It is an engineering plastic with good impact resistance, thermal deformation resistance, good weather resistance and high hardness, and is widely used in building materials, automobiles, aviation and other fields. ......

To tell the truth, materials are all floating clouds, and comfort is the most important thing. As far as the author's experience is concerned, the feel of Nokia N9 is not obviously different from that of ordinary plastic mobile phones, slightly softer (softer), but harder than rubber. By contrast, N9? Integrated injection molding process? Design is more worthy of attention. In my impression, plastic mobile phone products are really rare. From this perspective, N9 is a little innovative. Perhaps it is brought by this injection molding process? Magic? The N9 handshake is very comfortable, natural, soft and attractive.

Curved glass screen

The first time to use the curved screen was Google Nexus S, which was manufactured by Samsung. The feature is that the whole screen is recessed into the fuselage. In contrast, the Nokia N9' s screen is convex upward, and the radians on both sides are slightly downward and embedded in the fuselage. According to the official introduction, due to the polycarbonate injection molding process, the whole screen can be embedded in the fuselage very flush without exposing sharp edges.

Of course, the most important reason for using curved screen is that it supports N9' s seamless sliding gesture operation function (the video will be introduced later), which can bring users a very comfortable feel.

Q&A: Many people in N9 forum are very concerned about the effect of the curved screen film. Therefore, the author specially conducted a pasting test, and found that the protective film on the market is difficult to completely fit the screen radian of N9, mainly reflected in the two sides (as shown below). After a long time, it will inevitably turn to dust or become warped. Will there be a special film on the market? There are questions here. ......

System UI experience: How to play MeeGo? There are pictures and videos

Knowledge review: More than a year ago, Nokia announced that it would cooperate with Intel to launch an open source mobile platform, which will be based on Linux and integrate Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin platform. However, the terminal using MeeGo system was not put into commercial use until the second half of this year, taking the lead in testing the water in the notebook field. Nokia N9 should be the first in the mobile phone market.

This is the first time for me to experience the MeeGo platform (the samples exhibited before are really useless). Before introducing the basic operation of the whole system, let's watch a boot animation video, which is different from previous Nokia phones!

Nokia N9 new boot animation

Even the boot animation has changed. It can be seen that MeeGo is very different from the Symbian system we are familiar with. In order to make it clear to netizens, I would like to introduce the basic operation of Nokia N9 to you. Finally, as usual, there is a video with the truth.

Light up the screen in standby mode: the power button is on the right side of the fuselage, which can be directly lit when pressed. In addition, tapping twice with your finger can also light up the screen (to prevent misoperation, the tapping interval must be within one second).

Unlock: slide the four sides of the screen inward to unlock, pay attention! You must slide inward from the border, otherwise it is invalid. This is also an important reason why N9 uses curved screen.

Three-screen browsing: Nokia N9 only has three screens: main menu, multi-task background and dynamic update, which can be switched by gently sliding your finger, and the other three screens are switched circularly.

Multi-task menu switching: display at most 9 task thumbnails and at least 4 task thumbnails. The switching mode is stretching and sliding to both sides (from 4 to 9) or shrinking inward (from 9 to 4), which is cool, but generally useful.

Commonly used program banner: In any interface, if you slide up about one centimeter from the bottom and pause, a banner will automatically pop up at the bottom of the screen, which contains four commonly used program icons such as phone, SMS, browser and camera, similar to the commonly used shortcut keys at the bottom of iPhone, but this function of N9 does not support custom icons.

Program deletion: long press an icon in the main interface, a? Red fork? , click Delete (preset programs cannot be deleted); Long press a task thumbnail in the multitasking interface, and it will also appear? Red fork? , click delete, there is another one at the bottom? Shut it all down? Buttons don't need to be deleted one by one like iPhone, which is more convenient.

Special delivery: MeeGo system operation video

If you are still a little confused, then the author will explain it to you in detail through the real machine+interface screenshot.

Real Machine Interface: Real Experience of Nokia N9+MeeGo System

▲ After the screen is lit, slide from the left edge of the screen to the right to unlock it.

▲ Similarly, it can be unlocked by sliding to the middle from the right, top or bottom of the screen.

▲ Multi-task page is shot by real machine, and up to 9 task thumbnails can be displayed on one screen.

▲ Press and hold the icon to change the icon position at will. A red cross appears in non-default applications. Click it to delete the application.

▲ Standby interface and main interface. The former can display unread information below, such as short messages, phone calls, emails, etc.

▲ In addition to the main menu, the other two split-screen contents are dynamic update and multitasking.

▲ Slow-motion playback: the finger gently stretches and slides to both sides, which can be changed into 9 thumbnails for display.

The biggest harm: the application is crazy, is it non-mainstream?

Some people say that MeeGo system can not only transplant countless applications on Symbian 3, Symbian S60 and Symbian S40 platforms in the past, but also transplant a large number of applications on Android platform through Qt, because they are all Linux kernels. But at present, the development of MeeGo is still in its infancy (at least on N9), so let alone porting Android, even the applications on old Saipan can't be synchronized to MeeGo.

▲ Although it can be recognized, neither the past Saipan application nor the application on N900 can be directly used on N9.

In order to prove the compatibility of MeeGo platform, the author tried to install QQ software used in N97 on Nokia N9, and found that the program manager could recognize it but could not install it. Subsequently, the author tried to install QQ application on Maemo platform used by N900 on N9, and the result was that it could not be installed normally.

Note: Nokia N9 installs files with. Deb suffix Deb is just a package mode of installing software, similar to software package (. Exe) and can be decompressed in Linux environment.

▲ The number and quality of apps in software stores and preset applications are not flattering. ...

If you are not free to install third-party development programs, then you have to seek help from your own software store. Unfortunately, the AppStore of Nokia N9 is a bit scary, not only in small quantity, but also of low use value. It is true that a clever woman can't cook without rice. ......

I can't do it myself, the software store is half paralyzed, the only one? Hope? It is pinned to other preset applications. But ... I haven't found Tencent QQ yet, and the user experience of Sina Weibo MeeGo is crazy, which makes me feel very sorry. ......

▲ Sina Weibo MeeGo version, dare to use it harder?

It is true that MeeGo platform is covered with gorgeous clothes, and it has broad prospects for Qt architecture used across platforms. However, for N9, I'm afraid it can only be an experiment of Nokia. Strictly speaking, there is really no decent third-party development program on N9. Not surprisingly, N9 will follow the old path of N900 and Meamo systems abandoned two years ago-non-mainstream.

Basic hardware: 3.9-inch AMOLED screen+8 million pixels

Nokia N9' s screen size is not the largest and its resolution is not the highest, but there are a lot of gimmicks.

▲ Nokia N9 screen is full of gimmicks, and the actual display effect is really good.

According to the official introduction, the Nokia N9 adopts an AMOLED touch screen made of Corning Gorilla scratch-resistant glass, with a resolution of 3.9 inches of 480x854 pixels and a hair color number of16.7 million colors, and adds Nokia's own Claear black display? Yueping technology? (CBD), of course, including the aforementioned 2.5D curved glass design, these adjectives have created enough momentum for the Nokia N9 screen.

▲ Screen test data: 96x96(DPI), which is much worse than the screen fineness of iPhone 4.

So, what is the screen display effect of Nokia N9?

▲ The screen display effect of N9 under outdoor strong light.

From the actual experience, although this screen made by Samsung is obviously not as gorgeous as the Super AMOLED Plus screen of i9 100, it has moderate definition and contrast, and the visual effect is very comfortable, especially with the improvement of resolution, which makes the overall display effect significantly higher than that of the previous Nokia mobile phone (it used to be 360x640 pixels, which is not a grade at all). In addition, Nokia also added an anti-glare polarizer in the middle of the screen, which has better visibility than ordinary mobile phones in strong light environment.

Next, the camera of Nokia N9.

▲ The N9 has a built-in 8 megapixel camera.

Nokia N9 has an 8-megapixel carl zeiss-certified lens with a focal length of 3.77mm/28mm and a maximum aperture of F2.2 (greater than n 8). At the same time, it is equipped with dual LED flash, which supports facial recognition, touch focusing, ISO adjustment (up to 800) and other functions. In terms of camera shooting, the machine supports the mainstream 720P video recording function. Now? Carl zeiss? The name N9 has long been ignored. Whether the camera is strong or not depends on the result. Let's take a look at the performance of N9 through proofs and videos.

Showed some proofs:

▲ outdoor perspective shooting proofs (click to view the original picture)

▲ outdoor near-object shooting proofs (click to view the original picture)

▲ outdoor shooting proofs at night (click to view the original picture)

720P video sample demonstration:

Core hardware: non-dual-core, 1GHz processor+1GB RAM.

Many people are asking: Is Nokia N9 dual-core? The answer is no!

Nokia N9 adopts ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3630 processor, and its main frequency is 1GHz. In addition, the machine is equipped with 1GB RAM, and there are two memory capacity versions of 16GB and 64GB. On the GPU side, N9 adopts PowerVR SGX530 graphics processor, which is the same as Motorola Milestone 2.

▲CPU software test screenshot, other competing products can not be compared, so the results are for reference only.

Judging from the parameter table, the core hardware of Nokia N9 is really not strong. Except for 1GB RAM, the rest are not top devices, especially the processor is still in the single-core era, which makes many people feel embarrassed. But in terms of system operation, the fluency of Nokia N9 is absolutely no less than that of Android, and even better than that of ordinary Android terminals. What's going on here?

▲ Nokia N9 adopts MeeGo 1.2 system platform.

The reason is that MeeGo system is controlled by the bottom driver and directly guides the operation of the software. In contrast, the applications of Android system are all running on Java virtual machine, not directly booted by hardware, so a lot of hardware resources are consumed. The rapid development of Android mobile phone in hardware (1.2GHz, 1.5GHz CPU) has a lot to do with this.

Daily application experience: SMS/address book/music/map

Short message-virtual keyboard input is very easy to use, but it does not support continuous phrase association and does not support the installation of third-party input methods for the time being. I hope the retail version will be improved.

▲ Nokia N9 SMS input interface

Dialing+Address Book-The dialing interface is much better than Symbian^3, and it also supports large font display; Like the menu icon, the avatar icon of the address book is round and more loving. In addition, when querying contacts? Pinyin initials? Very eye-catching and human.

▲ Nokia N9 Dialing Interface and Address Book

Clock and alarm clock-use? Friendly? It is more appropriate to describe it. The whole interface design is simple and clear, especially the way to set the alarm clock is very special (fingers rotate the hour hand and the minute hand)

▲ Nokia N9 Clock and Alarm Clock

Music playing-nothing to say. Support album cover display, and the UI design style is simple and clear.

▲ Nokia N9 music playing interface

Picture Library-Similar to other systems, except that NFC function is added in the picture sharing link (which will be explained in detail later).

▲ Nokia N9 gallery interface

Map function-Nokia N9' s preset map has been upgraded to version 4.0, which increases the driving function and 3D function compared with the past, but I am used to Google Maps, and I really don't feel much when looking at other maps.

▲ Nokia N9 map interface

More functional tests: 720P playback +NFC+ network flash

At present, mainstream smartphones basically support 720P video playback function, and some even have 1080P playback level (Samsung i9 100). As the top flagship product of Nokia, it is officially confirmed that N9 supports 720P playback.

▲ Play its own 720P video, which can be run as a process.

However, during the test, the author found that the built-in 720P video of N9 can be played smoothly, but when playing some 720P video sources (MP4, 30fps) downloaded from the Internet, there was a serious frame skipping phenomenon. I hope this is just the reason why the system version is not completely optimized.

Nokia N9 720P Network Movie Source Playback Test 1

Nokia N9 720P Network Movie Source Playback Test 1

NFC near field communication

NFC is a near-field communication technology, which can realize multimedia transmission functions such as pictures and music at close range. In particular, the author used N9 and Nexus S (which also supports NFC) to test, and the results were unsuccessful. I wonder if the system is not perfect.

▲ The NFC chip of Nokia N9 is at the top of the fuselage, which can be transmitted with a touch.

▲ System prompt before using NFC function.

Web browsing +Flash experience

Due to the limited time, the author just experienced a link that had to be tested. From the results, it is still smooth, but the N9 does not support the flash function. Fortunately, at present, most video websites support the video format of HTML5, so it is no problem to watch websites such as Youku and Tudou with N9.

Nokia N9 Web Browsing Test

Nokia N9 Flash Test

If you still love it: Nokia N9 from Zhang Yuzhao.

If you came here after reading the comments on the previous page, it means that you are really attached to Nokia N9. Are you really enough? Love? It's ... in return for you. Perseverance? The author specially prepared several photos of N9 jadeite, which is not a tribute. I know, it's not important for your final choice ... (* _ _ *) Hee hee?

Experience Summary: You are most concerned about the six problems of N9.

At this point, this review has basically come to an end. I know N9 has too many things to finish, but time is limited. I'll fill them one by one later. As the end of the whole article, I want to sum up my experience in testing N9. The following is purely personal experience and is for reference only.

▲ For more discussion and questions about Nokia N9, please leave a message at the bottom of the article.

1. About plagiarism-Many people say that N9 not only continues the idea of Saipan platform in the past, but also plagiarizes some designs of Apple, Android, WP7 and WebOS in the UI interface. I think MeeGo is really familiar with some details, but it's not important. Design from the user's point of view is king, and everything else is bullshit!

2. About usage habits-During the use of N9, more than 90% is controlled by gestures. Days without physical buttons? I believe many people are worried that they will not be used to it. Personally, I think MeeGo's gesture operation threshold is not high, and it is only a matter of time before he gets used to it. Interestingly, after I reuse the iPhone, I often think of the gesture operation on the N9, which shows that the humanized design of the N9 still has a set.

3. About misoperation-No matter how perfect the gesture operation of ——N9 is, it will be misoperated. Especially some operations on the edge of the screen, it is easy to quit the current operation or conflict with the running application, which is indeed inevitable, but it is tolerable.

4. About APP-I firmly believe that N9 will have more applications, but time waits for no one, and it is difficult for N9 to compete with Apple and Android in application. Application is king? S, N9 are likely to become victims, blame only Nokia for starting too late, and hate only Nokia itself for being too disappointing!

5. About the listing-it was rumored that it would be listed in September, but due to the release of an upgraded version of Symbian Anna system-Symbian Belle this week, the listing time of the ancient N9 is likely to be delayed to 10, alas ~

6. About the price-how much will you spend on the N9? I'm afraid many people have asked themselves this question. Judging from the current testing situation, N9 performs well in all aspects, and its application is not strong, but what's the use of buying it without application? The worst-case scenario is the same as now. I won't start with more than 2000 yuan. If the application is improved, the price within 3,500 yuan should be a more suitable price for N9. If everything stays the same, but the system changes to Android, then N9 will definitely sell like crazy, but I know this is only if. ......