Nokia N9 16GB

Nokia N9 smartphone

The Nokia N9 is the best looking and slickest smartphone Nokia has ever built. It's a combination of superbly built hardware and slick, easy to use, elegant software. However, it's priced too high to compete with iOS and Android alternatives and we can't help but feel it's about 18 months too late. Beautifully simple. That's the marketing tag-line for Nokia's promotion of the N9 smartphone, the first and last Nokia phone to run the MeeGo operating system. The N9 is the best looking and slickest device the company has released in a number of years. Although it can't compete with Android's flexibility, or iOS's number and quality of third-party apps, the Nokia N9's great design, superb display and ease of use makes it a valid alternative if you're looking for something different. It's just a shame it's so late to market and is essentially running a dead operating system.

When we think of smartphones, simplicity isn't always the first word that comes to mind. But that's the word Nokia is using in the widespread marketing of its latest mobile device – the eye-catching N9.

Nokia N9

Despite a laundry list of missing features, the N9 is Nokia's best phone for a long time. The MeeGo OS feels lean and fast, and the messaging system is a winner. The web browser is limited in its features and controls, but is pleasingly zippy when loading pages.

Nokia N9

Hounded by critics and deserted by customers, Nokia has been forced to take a massive change of direction in 2011, with one of the obvious casualties of this new outlook being the Linux-based MeeGo operating system that Nokia has been developing with Intel.

Nokia N9 review: Nokia N9

If you don't know the difference between an iPhone and an Android, and you'd love a smartphone for web browsing and email, then the N9 could be for you. Hounded by critics and deserted by customers, Nokia has been forced to take a massive change of direction in 2011, with one of the obvious casualties of this new outlook being the Linux-based MeeGo operating system that Nokia has been developing with Intel. The N9 is the first and maybe the only smartphone to run on the MeeGo OS, and, in many ways, it will be a shame if this is true.

It's been a week since I picked up my (test-) Nokia N9 from the kind of folks of Grayling, an agency for Nokia Austria in Vienna. Of course, I was not too anxious to get it in my hands as soon as possible, i just wanted to save them some money for the delivery In this week I have tried and tested...

"Nokia's N9: A Damaging Love-Hate Relationship"

Nokia's N9 has a premium price tag and the potential to take on Apple and Google foes. Will its bet on the Linux-based MeeGo OS help it reclaim its lost market?

Nokia's N9 has a premium price tag and the potential to take on Apple and Google foes. Will its bet on the Linux-based MeeGo OS help it reclaim its lost market?

Nokia N9 review

The Nokia N9 is, without doubt, one of the most fascinating phones of the last few years. The tale of its development and launch interweaves almost all the multivariate strands of the Nokia narrative.

Nokia N9 (Unlocked)

The Nokia N9 ($700 street) has stepped through a door from an alternate reality with a lesson for us. Almost impossible to buy in the U.S., the N9 is rumored to use the same body, and many of the features of Nokia's upcoming flagship Windows Phone, known as "Sea Ray.