Honestly, the Lumia phone's design is so beautiful! For me, they're of the best designed phones ever. If Nokia were to release now an android phone with Lumia design, I would buy it.
Shame on Stephen Elop, who literally pushed the company into downfall to fulfill his own personal agenda. He wanted to become CEO of Microsoft, well he didn't became one and that is the reason why ethics and professional standards holds a very imp position. Nokia would have still been the greatest company. Imagine meego greeting ota updates in 2021 with Nokia's own flagship hardware.
@@AbdullaZaki I can tell, I assume some developers at Google or Apple still have this phone in their desk drawer, probably they have learnt a thing or two from this angel.
Ah was devastated when Evil Elop announce Nokia would move to Windows. There was so much outrage from the community but Nokia didn't listen to their customers. Every now and then I think about buying another N9 but then realised how redundant the software would be now.
Moving to windows was a part of the problem, but the biggest problem was trying to fix an unfixable symbian, even choosing to focus on symbian when they had meego which was superior in terms of UX and UI
my brother had nokia N8, nd i think that in 2010-13 that phone was one of the best ever camera nd strong phone. i m missing that type of premimum quality but worthy phone these days. if NOKIA will start their manufacturing with android nd with strong features but with best comparing price ithinK MY NOKIA will eat every brand in seconds. i miss u nokia.
@@CallumBrierly However they don't make a commercial move, and it relies on Android ecosystem, I expected Sailfish to evolve at least to Asha Platform level with its own original decent hardwares. Maybe they can collaborate with other mobile company and redeveloped the OS
For anyone who still wants to experience Meego, it continued development with the team who worked on the N9 when they started their own phone company, Jolla. They made their own phone with similar interface called Sailfish OS, have since released one other phone with Intex but are now limited to running on pretty much just Sony devices. Sailfish OS is still being updated and developed, and can also run Android apps!
I have been following Jolla and sailfish, but I still think the UX of Meego harmattan is much easier to use and live with. Sailfish is unique but can be a bit too overwhelming to people who pick it up for the first time.
I really appreciate your detailed story. I was and am still a hardcore Nokia fan. Hearing the entire saga described really made me feel nostalgic. Thank you for this.
Never heard of this phone, before your review... Wish it was still around since it's a beautifully crafted piece of technology, way ahead of it's time. You've made an awesome in-depth review, and you got yourself a new sub! Keep up the great work!
Would never happen. Android and iOS is it. The issue with any new OS is that it's a Catch 22 straight to failure. You need users to get developers to make apps but you need apps to get users.
A really poetic review that appreciates the beauty and inspiration behind the project. It really does stand the test of time and agreed breaks my heart that we never saw further. I had the n900 and loved it's ancestor. Looking back I can see the loss of the keyboard and stylus as a logical move particularly when you see everything out here now, but at the time really struggled to see the benefit as I had really got used to my portable linux pda with full OS. I really would like to be in the universe where Meego and Nokia soared past android and Ios taking nokia to the present day creating more things of this kind of beauty.
I'm glad you could see how passionate I was about MeeGo and the N9. Truly my biggest tech regret is not seeing MeeGo being further developed by nokia. I covered the Nokia N900 in another video. I loved that phone for its own set of different reasons. We were lucky to have experienced Maemo and MeeGo, 2 very different concepts that are both unique in their own ways.
I can feel your passion about this phone my man. You almost make me cry😢. I've never got into smartphones because I hate using android, but I'd love one of these. It's the most beautiful phone I've ever seen.
The swipe gesture is the feature that kinda mind-blown for me at that time. I didn't own one but I remember the feeling when I touch the demo unit in local retail store like "WTF smooth & easy AF !!" I hope Nokia don't bring back legendary N9 instead re-release a high end version with latest SoC, never update MeeGo OS and a removable battery in limited quantity campaign. Curious is still worth buying in 2020 ? Can the MeeGo OS still able to update to its latest version ?
Unfortunately you can't really use the N9 as a daily driver today. No 4G, no whatsapp, no app store. I would use it if it still had these features haha.
I think it would have been better if Nokia had chosen a custom ROM over pure Android! They could've made MeeGo like interface. Apple wouldn't have released their gestures with iPhone X then.
Even though I've never owned N9, I do own N810 and N900, and you reflect my exact sentiments on Maemo/Meego. Such a shame that Nokia was basically ruined and buried by Microsoft...
Agree. I miss old Nokia phones so much. 5-10 years ago we had much better choice and wider range on the market than nowadays and its a shame. All present phones look nearly identical having the same specifications...
Definitely the coolest phone I ever owned. I miss it dearly. I had a bittersweet look on my face hearing about innovative features like dobuod tap-to-wake on LG, always on display on samsung and then gesture navigation becoming a standard when N9 had all of those years before.
This was the start of the end of the original Nokia. Still remember how excited me and my friends were about this new Meego OS. Nokia totally miscalculated the Microsoft-Nokia deal...
I just love this phone. I had it from 2011 to 2014 and it was amazing, so much ahead of its time. The icons were in the flat design language 3 years prior apple. And all of those other things many more years ahead of its time. I love this device. Thanks for the video and nostalgia!
Even after several years the N9 is still one my favorite smartphone that I have ever use. The easiest phone for me to navigate and I felt unique using it in public because it wasn't very popular. Till this day I still miss the gesture controlled UI of that phone, I wish modern phones have it.
I'm in the same boat as you. Nothing has had that same impact on me ever since. Was happy when Android and iOS adopted gestures, but the N9's implementation was just much much better
stupid decision to chose Windows Phone over develop Meego, thx to Stephen Elop (former Microsoft executive-before CEO Nokia). Back then people were still searching best OS smartphone and Nokia had strong finance to make it's own OS.
Hindsight is 20/20. At the time, partnering (and receiving $250mil) with an established player, i.e. Microsoft, was a much more lucrative option than developing your own platform from the ground up. MeeGo simply came out too late at that point, and Windows Phone was a much better better bet. Of course, we all know now that MS ended up mismanaging their mobile OS, bringing the Lumia down with it.
@@juancarlossotobarrera3092 internal politics played a big role, the Symbian team fight for their job and kept the burning platform, does the meego came in too late.
That's my opinion. Why not? Elop used to work for ms after all. And what's at stake? All that tummy user data to sell. Which Nokia wasnt doing. Elop rode the company into the ground and never got fired. His predecessors for let go for far less. Yet he was allowed to keep driving Nokia into the ground.
I have 3 phones as daily drivers: iPhone 7 (I had a iPhone X but got water in it just by having a bath so never again I will buy a phone that is rated IP68 but has no warranty for water damage) , Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G and my 10 years old Nokia N9. Never in the history of smart phones will be another one so revolutionary for its time. It still has features that don't even exist this days on most of the phones: double tap screen to wake up, floating clock and accessing the phone, messaging, camera and browser from any app by slightly swapping upwards from the bottom. Nokia N9 is a masterpiece, is art is the best phone ever made and I will always have one as a daily driver.
@@AbdullaZaki That is the problem with the world today - everything is just profits and numbers. There is no art mostly and great brands are simply killed for profits.
I loved that phone even I wasn’t ready to ditch it until WhatsApp stoped supporting. I still love that fine beauty. I wish they could bring a 2021 model of the same design and feel. Nokia N9 i miss you a lot. Those who never experienced it: you really missed a fine art of the time.
Hey Buddy, Thanks for talking about MeeGo. Today, randomly I started researching about windows phones. I knew about Symbian and Windows running nokia phones,but never heard of MeeGo OS. But Today when I researched and watched couple of videos of N9 and Harmattan UI, "it truly saddens me" also today in 2020. Indeed Nokia N9 was the best phone Nokia ever made. RIP MeeGo ~ Love from India ~
I was doing everything I can to keep using it for as long as possible. Even remember using wazzapp as a whatsapp alternative at the time, but it was a struggle after a while because the apps weren't there :(
I think and hopefully that is how Nokia brought back these designs, to see if it refreshes the boring designs that there are today. The same design as this Nokia 9 but with a larger screen.
I owned one. A fantastic phone. Absolutely criminal that Nokia did not move forward with this. Windows phone was not even close to this. So something was up with that decision.
I still love Nokia, I could not buy this as it was not launched in India those days. I still own a nokia N8. This was supposed to be a game changer , but it was supressed
OMG, Absolutely Brilliant Video and Story Depiction, the Presentation and What Stellar Choice of Words! Believe it or not, I got a box-packed brand new N9 and I'm hoping to make an Unboxing, but you have summarized everything that I ever wanted to say! Kudos to you Habibi Great Work!
N9 was much advanced for it's time. It's meego os was fresh as air. Meego's successor Sailfish OS is still one of the best os today, too bad maximum people don't know about Sailfish OS. N9 is still one of my fav phones for reasons
Sailfish needs to be adopted by a big OEM in order for it to develop into a serious contender. Its also not as easy to use as Meego harmattan, which can be picked up and used by anybody.
I had Nokia N70 Music Edition and I used the phone for 7years ,changed battery twice & it was still alive and kicking when I finally switched over to android in 2013,still have it with me with original box intact
Actually MeeGo had a successor: Sailfish OS. The same team that developed Maemo And MeeGo left Nokia and founded Jolla. Sadly they only released one phone model, simply called Jolla in 2013. There were plans to release a tablet and a second phone but, due to financial difficulties they never could release any physical device. Today they offer Sailfish OS as a licenced software for Sony Xperia phones and other. And because it has open source license, there have been ports for other devices also. Sailfish OS inherited all the functions found in MeeGo and was a breeze to use. They still release software updates to this day for the Jolla phone.
Only Nokia Fan will Know the Current situation. 😭 😭 Nokia is always the Legend. used Nokia 2626, 5233, Lumia 1020 and Now nokia 7 plus always have a trust in hand. You are Great bro. ❤️ ❤️ Hope Nokia will understand the Value of Current market
This is such a great video presentation of the N9. I watched few videos of yours and finally convinced me to subscribe. Keep up, bro. Good day from Cambodia.
Also during the development there was a internal fight inside Nokia company between Symbian and Meegoo. This fight was one of the reasons for fall of Nokia. This reminds me a lot of my Lumia 1020
Yeah that was a real shame. Nokia could have focused on meego and moved on but the symbian team had a lot of power internally and tried their best to keep Nokia focused on symbian. The lumia 1020's design is continuation of the N9s design :)
@@AbdullaZaki Symbian had an active app store+3rd party app developers.meegoo was so radical, it was very similar to linux complied for arm chips.They could have put their energy on one OS.
My phones from the start to present : 5110, 3210, 3310, Nokia 5700 Xpress Music, Nokia N73 Music Edition, Nokia Asha 501, Nokia Lumia 730, and Nokia G50 5G(my present phone since November 2022) ,,,Im proud to be a Nokia User 😀
I still have my N9 and I charge it up and use it sometimes because the macro shots on the camera are still top notch, and it has 64gb storage, so I use it as a USB stick.
This phone and OS was waaay ahead of its time! So sad they didnt invest and further develop this OS and Nokia lineup.. just imagine that phone design and OS would look so elegant in a fullscreen front..
Agree with many of the sentiments in this video regarding the N9. Never has their been another phone for me blended hardware and software so perfectly and it was just a pure pleasure to use. The hardware feels amazing in the hand and MeeGo like the video states just begs to be used for no reason whatsoever just to experience the beauty of the swipe based gesture UI. The only other dead mobile OS for me saddens me today as much as MeeGo is webOS but the Palm Pre hardware only wishes it was as good as the N9.
@@AbdullaZaki I still pull mine out every once in a while but it's always a sad experience for me so I try to keep it locked away with my N8 and N900, phone's that were years ahead of their time and could be enjoying the fruits of being the top OS platform like Android does now if only released earlier and under different circumstances.
I could be wrong but I think the main thing that makes it hard for other systems like Windows phones and Nokia phones to really succeed (besides brand familiarity of apple and android) is app support.
Still after 10 years I am always looking for a phone that would have all these intuitive features and gestures. iPhone 11 has the notification screen, but that's it. No phone has been even close to the ease of use as N9. N9 had excellent navigation and combined it to great size. Today they could make it even better with the current super slim bezels and all.
Feel kinda guilty now because i really had quite a collision what to choose - n9 or one of the first Lumias. And this was so crazy and mind-blowing that i feared to take it and chose Lumia. Still liked my Lumia 800 and 1020, still regret WP failure (it was such a shame when Lumias were released by Microsoft, not Nokia), still believe 1020 was my best phone (having iPhone and Android now), but this n9 was a masterpiece. Thx for your review!
You made the more logical choice at the time as it was the future of Nokia. Still, if you have a chance to try the N9 you should. It's a masterpiece. I loved the lumia 800 at the time because of the resemblance :) btw if you liked your Lumia 1020, you can check out my camera review for it on my channel :)
At the time I was wishing Nokia went full on Android and kept a modernized version of the already very familiar Symbian interface as an Android UI & skin, while taking advantage of Android's features and app universe. Then Elop dragged Nokia into Microsoft.
Nokia even produced a feature phone with a similar look OS called Asha Platform. That was my favourite feature phone OS. The Asha 501 was the one I had.
Meego was also behind the inspiration of all the later Symbian updates like Anna and Belle. But it was much better than anything running Symbian when it comes to user experience.
I owned (still have) the N900, N9 and Jolla phone from back in the day, and boy do I miss using them. There are still things that modern Android cannot do that these phones had like true systemwide multi tasking, why is it still so fragmented? Or simple things like double tap on the screen to wake? The after so long the muscel memory is still very real, somethimes I still find myself swiping from the edge of the screen to go back into my last app.
I had an N8 (still have and still works) and when the N9 came out I was in love with the design that Nokia did. The idea of new OS was also great since I love new and experimental stuff but where Nokia and later on Microsoft failed was to anticipate how important was to have developers work on ypur devices and...make apps. An area where iphone and android where ahead. What the N9 started, MS and windows phone could have made into a true champion of os and hardware...could being the key word.
As a Linux user since 2008 I was so stoked when Nokia 800 shipped with Maemo, followed by N810, and then N9, a flagship phone, was launched with MeeGo Harmattan inside, I thought at the time this is where Linux become mainstream: through mobile devices. Boy I was so disappointed with what happened next
Always loved Nokia hardware . Why Nokia failed for me it didn't change with time . I had Nokia Lumia 1020 which was excellent piece of hardware and camera 👌. Now I owned Nokia 7.2 which is Great in these times
Have you guys tried or owned the Nokia N9? What's your favourite Nokia ever made ?
Nokia c5-00 and nokia lumia 1020 nokia 7.2 and nokia 8.3 5g
Nokia 3310...
And Now Nokia 5.3
808 no competition
Did you buy the Nokia 8.3?
The 808 was a beast.
This was way ahead of it's time, Meego looks more mature than the android version of the time. It's a shame they abandoned the project
It still looks modern next to a modern phone with android or iOS.
This review sounds like a love poem for the N9!
It is a love poem to one of the best phones ever made :)
Yes exactly! My thought!!!! I love him for the way he explains his love. It's like the best essay or poem written ever!!!
Easy said... Meego........ It works nice, but slightly slower......
@@AbdullaZaki 🥲
It is ! I had the phone and totally loved it. It was the best phone on the market 2012-13.
NOKIA N9 : A LEGENDARY PHEONIX WAITING TO BE RISED FROM THE ASHES.
Honestly, the Lumia phone's design is so beautiful! For me, they're of the best designed phones ever. If Nokia were to release now an android phone with Lumia design, I would buy it.
Sony are close enough
They have finally released
Shame on Stephen Elop, who literally pushed the company into downfall to fulfill his own personal agenda. He wanted to become CEO of Microsoft, well he didn't became one and that is the reason why ethics and professional standards holds a very imp position. Nokia would have still been the greatest company.
Imagine meego greeting ota updates in 2021 with Nokia's own flagship hardware.
I genuinely loved this. An uncle of mine owned this, and I loved getting my hands on this whenever I had a chance. I still miss this.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I was completely in love with this phone, was the best phone I ever had at that time. It felt far ahead of its time , I remember it being so smooth
To be honest that phone really looks like it was released yesterday.. Darn!
It really does. Even the OS still feels modern and fast even today.
@@AbdullaZaki I can tell, I assume some developers at Google or Apple still have this phone in their desk drawer, probably they have learnt a thing or two from this angel.
It feels like it´s gonna be released in a few years.....What a beast!!
Ah was devastated when Evil Elop announce Nokia would move to Windows. There was so much outrage from the community but Nokia didn't listen to their customers. Every now and then I think about buying another N9 but then realised how redundant the software would be now.
Moving to windows was a part of the problem, but the biggest problem was trying to fix an unfixable symbian, even choosing to focus on symbian when they had meego which was superior in terms of UX and UI
Well, the man is called ELOP (or probably ELOPE) so why were we surprised when he ELOPED to go get married to MICROSOFT ?
@@AbdullaZaki at that time I read somewhere that there was internal politics and meego team was sidelined by the Symbian and nokia management
Just buy it for nostalgia. I recently bought Nokia E7 (Symbian Belle) and use it for my daily calls because I just love the keyboards
my brother had nokia N8, nd i think that in 2010-13 that phone was one of the best ever camera nd strong phone. i m missing that type of premimum quality but worthy phone these days. if NOKIA will start their manufacturing with android nd with strong features but with best comparing price ithinK MY NOKIA will eat every brand in seconds. i miss u nokia.
One of the best looking phones and OSses ever. I want something like the N9 right now, that design and feel still is superior
I'm tired of android and ios.please meego come back
Romeo Diyong I want To work In Nokia!!!
@@MAI-ADIL please submit your resume as soon as possible to Nokia my friend.may i know your qualification?
Look at Sailfish OS by Jolla, it's based on Meego and made by the same team who worked on the N9. It's available on some Sony devices!
I am indian...Studying Right now
@@CallumBrierly However they don't make a commercial move, and it relies on Android ecosystem, I expected Sailfish to evolve at least to Asha Platform level with its own original decent hardwares. Maybe they can collaborate with other mobile company and redeveloped the OS
I've owned this phone and it was way ahead of it time
Only those of us who owned it fully understand how far ahead of its time this phone and interface were.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I really truly wish Meego to come back on Nokia somehow
I loved my N9. It was indeed way ahead of its time...I was a lucky fella being able to own both Nokia N9 and the N900
For anyone who still wants to experience Meego, it continued development with the team who worked on the N9 when they started their own phone company, Jolla.
They made their own phone with similar interface called Sailfish OS, have since released one other phone with Intex but are now limited to running on pretty much just Sony devices. Sailfish OS is still being updated and developed, and can also run Android apps!
I have been following Jolla and sailfish, but I still think the UX of Meego harmattan is much easier to use and live with. Sailfish is unique but can be a bit too overwhelming to people who pick it up for the first time.
I really appreciate your detailed story. I was and am still a hardcore Nokia fan. Hearing the entire saga described really made me feel nostalgic. Thank you for this.
You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed it :)
Never heard of this phone, before your review... Wish it was still around since it's a beautifully crafted piece of technology, way ahead of it's time. You've made an awesome in-depth review, and you got yourself a new sub! Keep up the great work!
Meego Must Comeback!!
Yes please!
if Only.
imposible
The current spiritual successor is
Sailfish OS by Jolla
Would never happen. Android and iOS is it. The issue with any new OS is that it's a Catch 22 straight to failure. You need users to get developers to make apps but you need apps to get users.
When n9 launched i was dying to buy it but couldn't afford it 😭 now can afford but.... 😭😭😭
Try wish. They have it for cheap
Me tooo...
@@velocitydata1894 don't use wish.
@@fzr850 aliexpress is better
@@namesurname4666 yes
I had this phone when it came out and I totally loved it ! It was definitely much better than the iPhone 4. unfortunately I lost it..
I had N9. The os was perfect in every way, however, there were no apps and that was its biggest problem. That was the last good Linux phone I saw.
A really poetic review that appreciates the beauty and inspiration behind the project. It really does stand the test of time and agreed breaks my heart that we never saw further. I had the n900 and loved it's ancestor. Looking back I can see the loss of the keyboard and stylus as a logical move particularly when you see everything out here now, but at the time really struggled to see the benefit as I had really got used to my portable linux pda with full OS. I really would like to be in the universe where Meego and Nokia soared past android and Ios taking nokia to the present day creating more things of this kind of beauty.
I'm glad you could see how passionate I was about MeeGo and the N9. Truly my biggest tech regret is not seeing MeeGo being further developed by nokia.
I covered the Nokia N900 in another video. I loved that phone for its own set of different reasons. We were lucky to have experienced Maemo and MeeGo, 2 very different concepts that are both unique in their own ways.
I can feel your passion about this phone my man. You almost make me cry😢. I've never got into smartphones because I hate using android, but I'd love one of these. It's the most beautiful phone I've ever seen.
man this video just made me feel sad .. RIP NOKIA
I bought Nokia N9 when it's released. Its user interface is ahead of its time.
What did you think of its hardware?
@@AbdullaZaki Awesome overall, in its time.
eMMC might be slow, but in Nokia N9 it's barely noticeable.
The swipe gesture is the feature that kinda mind-blown for me at that time.
I didn't own one but I remember the feeling when I touch the demo unit in local retail store like "WTF smooth & easy AF !!"
I hope Nokia don't bring back legendary N9 instead re-release a high end version with latest SoC, never update MeeGo OS and a removable battery in limited quantity campaign.
Curious is still worth buying in 2020 ? Can the MeeGo OS still able to update to its latest version ?
Unfortunately you can't really use the N9 as a daily driver today. No 4G, no whatsapp, no app store. I would use it if it still had these features haha.
I think it would have been better if Nokia had chosen a custom ROM over pure Android! They could've made MeeGo like interface. Apple wouldn't have released their gestures with iPhone X then.
Even though I've never owned N9, I do own N810 and N900, and you reflect my exact sentiments on Maemo/Meego. Such a shame that Nokia was basically ruined and buried by Microsoft...
I only got a chance to play with the N900 and loved it. Maemo was awesome...
I have had this phone. Im proud of it. Nothing beats this phone. Its fluid, 1gb of ram can open 60+ app with no problem. Such a wasted opportunity.
There's just feeling of regret whenever n9 comes across. why they didn't go with that.
I understand the struggle...
U re same like me bro...love Nokia Brand forever and ever, greetings from Indonesia..Nokia fans fmly
Welcome to my channel :)
Yes, I still can't forgive Elop for killing the nokia n9 and the Meego os.
Agree. I miss old Nokia phones so much. 5-10 years ago we had much better choice and wider range on the market than nowadays and its a shame. All present phones look nearly identical having the same specifications...
Remember how different the N9 looked compared to the iPhone 4S, Galaxy S2, etc. Now they all blend in together
I watch this video again,again,again and again.....
I will always miss symbian,meego,windows phone and NOKIA.
This video made me emotional
Love it..... I only had the chance to use it once when it was released
Such a unique phone
Definitely the coolest phone I ever owned. I miss it dearly. I had a bittersweet look on my face hearing about innovative features like dobuod tap-to-wake on LG, always on display on samsung and then gesture navigation becoming a standard when N9 had all of those years before.
I also like how all these companies claimed they were innovations when they ripped everything off from the N9 :(
This was the start of the end of the original Nokia.
Still remember how excited me and my friends were about this new Meego OS. Nokia totally miscalculated the Microsoft-Nokia deal...
And that design remains unrivalled to this day. I love my iPhone but this is on another level of cool.
I just love this phone. I had it from 2011 to 2014 and it was amazing, so much ahead of its time.
The icons were in the flat design language 3 years prior apple.
And all of those other things many more years ahead of its time. I love this device.
Thanks for the video and nostalgia!
Everything about the n9 was ahead of its time. My biggest disappointment is that we won't see a successor to this amazing phone
Even after several years the N9 is still one my favorite smartphone that I have ever use. The easiest phone for me to navigate and I felt unique using it in public because it wasn't very popular. Till this day I still miss the gesture controlled UI of that phone, I wish modern phones have it.
I'm in the same boat as you. Nothing has had that same impact on me ever since. Was happy when Android and iOS adopted gestures, but the N9's implementation was just much much better
I still have this phone.was a masterpiece .very beautiful and unusual
It truly is a masterpiece. Which color do you have?
@@AbdullaZaki black.
This video made my day :') you deliver perfectly, everything i admired about the N9.
Wish you had the cyan color
Glad you liked it!
Cyan was really nice, but Black is perfect for the N9
stupid decision to chose Windows Phone over develop Meego, thx to Stephen Elop (former Microsoft executive-before CEO Nokia).
Back then people were still searching best OS smartphone and Nokia had strong finance to make it's own OS.
As far as I remember ms have Nokia 100 million dollars which was a lot back then
Hindsight is 20/20. At the time, partnering (and receiving $250mil) with an established player, i.e. Microsoft, was a much more lucrative option than developing your own platform from the ground up. MeeGo simply came out too late at that point, and Windows Phone was a much better better bet. Of course, we all know now that MS ended up mismanaging their mobile OS, bringing the Lumia down with it.
@@juancarlossotobarrera3092 internal politics played a big role, the Symbian team fight for their job and kept the burning platform, does the meego came in too late.
Partnering with microsoft... the worst decision ever, though probably calculated by microsoft to ruin the european competition
That's my opinion. Why not? Elop used to work for ms after all. And what's at stake? All that tummy user data to sell. Which Nokia wasnt doing. Elop rode the company into the ground and never got fired. His predecessors for let go for far less. Yet he was allowed to keep driving Nokia into the ground.
This was very modern for it's time. Things which we see them in nowadays
I bought one in 2013 and i was suprised. Best phone I used ever and a great deal. I only bought it like 180 euros brand new in cyan.
Thats a bargain. For me I had to let go of it because of the lack of official whatsapp
Best Looking phone ever. Nokia should make an updated version of N9 now
I would love that
I have 3 phones as daily drivers: iPhone 7 (I had a iPhone X but got water in it just by having a bath so never again I will buy a phone that is rated IP68 but has no warranty for water damage) , Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G and my 10 years old Nokia N9. Never in the history of smart phones will be another one so revolutionary for its time. It still has features that don't even exist this days on most of the phones: double tap screen to wake up, floating clock and accessing the phone, messaging, camera and browser from any app by slightly swapping upwards from the bottom. Nokia N9 is a masterpiece, is art is the best phone ever made and I will always have one as a daily driver.
I totally understand you. Using it today, it still feels incredible. Such a shame Nokia gave up on it so quickly.
@@AbdullaZaki That is the problem with the world today - everything is just profits and numbers. There is no art mostly and great brands are simply killed for profits.
I loved that phone even I wasn’t ready to ditch it until WhatsApp stoped supporting. I still love that fine beauty. I wish they could bring a 2021 model of the same design and feel. Nokia N9 i miss you a lot. Those who never experienced it: you really missed a fine art of the time.
Hey Buddy, Thanks for talking about MeeGo.
Today, randomly I started researching about windows phones.
I knew about Symbian and Windows running nokia phones,but never heard of MeeGo OS.
But Today when I researched and watched couple of videos of N9 and Harmattan UI, "it truly saddens me" also today in 2020.
Indeed Nokia N9 was the best phone Nokia ever made. RIP MeeGo
~ Love from India ~
Thank you :)
Very poetic. The N9 poem.
Yeah I used to be good in English literature :p
I also had one.
Great device to use with Meego. Why it wasn't just developed further ... Then Elop came!
I was doing everything I can to keep using it for as long as possible. Even remember using wazzapp as a whatsapp alternative at the time, but it was a struggle after a while because the apps weren't there :(
Plz comeback MeeGo 🥺
I think and hopefully that is how Nokia brought back these designs, to see if it refreshes the boring designs that there are today. The same design as this Nokia 9 but with a larger screen.
I hope so :)
Love the video content, you just earned yourself a new subscriber
Awesome, thank you! :D
This lowkey made me cry.
One financial decision shattered it all.
I owned one. A fantastic phone. Absolutely criminal that Nokia did not move forward with this. Windows phone was not even close to this. So something was up with that decision.
The cinematic on your videos are just outstanding
Thank you for the kind words :) I try my best to keep things interesting
I still love Nokia, I could not buy this as it was not launched in India those days. I still own a nokia N8.
This was supposed to be a game changer , but it was supressed
The N8 is a very cool device. It feels like a tank!
Nokia N9 was the best phone I ever had, made me fall in love with Nokia More than I already was
It was the best phone experience I ever enjoyed
OMG, Absolutely Brilliant Video and Story Depiction, the Presentation and What Stellar Choice of Words! Believe it or not, I got a box-packed brand new N9 and I'm hoping to make an Unboxing, but you have summarized everything that I ever wanted to say! Kudos to you Habibi Great Work!
Thank you, very happy to hear this :)
N9 was much advanced for it's time. It's meego os was fresh as air. Meego's successor Sailfish OS is still one of the best os today, too bad maximum people don't know about Sailfish OS. N9 is still one of my fav phones for reasons
Sailfish needs to be adopted by a big OEM in order for it to develop into a serious contender. Its also not as easy to use as Meego harmattan, which can be picked up and used by anybody.
I had Nokia N70 Music Edition and I used the phone for 7years ,changed battery twice & it was still alive and kicking when I finally switched over to android in 2013,still have it with me with original box intact
Actually MeeGo had a successor: Sailfish OS. The same team that developed Maemo And MeeGo left Nokia and founded Jolla. Sadly they only released one phone model, simply called Jolla in 2013. There were plans to release a tablet and a second phone but, due to financial difficulties they never could release any physical device.
Today they offer Sailfish OS as a licenced software for Sony Xperia phones and other.
And because it has open source license, there have been ports for other devices also.
Sailfish OS inherited all the functions found in MeeGo and was a breeze to use. They still release software updates to this day for the Jolla phone.
Only Nokia Fan will Know the Current situation. 😭 😭 Nokia is always the Legend. used Nokia 2626, 5233, Lumia 1020 and Now nokia 7 plus always have a trust in hand. You are Great bro. ❤️ ❤️ Hope Nokia will understand the Value of Current market
Thank you :)
This is such a great video presentation of the N9. I watched few videos of yours and finally convinced me to subscribe. Keep up, bro.
Good day from Cambodia.
Thank you. :) Cheers from Dubai!
@@AbdullaZaki Next up is a full camera review of Lumia 950 XL please.
Also during the development there was a internal fight inside Nokia company between Symbian and Meegoo. This fight was one of the reasons for fall of Nokia. This reminds me a lot of my Lumia 1020
Yeah that was a real shame. Nokia could have focused on meego and moved on but the symbian team had a lot of power internally and tried their best to keep Nokia focused on symbian. The lumia 1020's design is continuation of the N9s design :)
@@AbdullaZaki But then comes ELOP!
@@AbdullaZaki Symbian had an active app store+3rd party app developers.meegoo was so radical, it was very similar to linux complied for arm chips.They could have put their energy on one OS.
I still have this phone. The only problem is with the sim card slot not working. The display, the build quality, everything is so beautiful still.
It's sad this phone didn't get the appreciation it deserved back in the day! 😯
Absolutely. This video is so people never forget :)
My phones from the start to present : 5110, 3210, 3310, Nokia 5700 Xpress Music, Nokia N73 Music Edition, Nokia Asha 501, Nokia Lumia 730, and Nokia G50 5G(my present phone since November 2022) ,,,Im proud to be a Nokia User 😀
I still have my N9 and I charge it up and use it sometimes because the macro shots on the camera are still top notch, and it has 64gb storage, so I use it as a USB stick.
The camera user experience on it is awesome. Although I always felt like quality wise it was lacking
Did the supportWhatsApp?
Nokia N9 was my dream phone in 2011
This phone and OS was waaay ahead of its time! So sad they didnt invest and further develop this OS and Nokia lineup.. just imagine that phone design and OS would look so elegant in a fullscreen front..
that design is TIMELESS! if only HMD GLOBAL would bring back that design language!
The only phone where I never hated the tutch feature.
Agree with many of the sentiments in this video regarding the N9. Never has their been another phone for me blended hardware and software so perfectly and it was just a pure pleasure to use. The hardware feels amazing in the hand and MeeGo like the video states just begs to be used for no reason whatsoever just to experience the beauty of the swipe based gesture UI. The only other dead mobile OS for me saddens me today as much as MeeGo is webOS but the Palm Pre hardware only wishes it was as good as the N9.
Its truly a shame that such a masterpiece will only be remembered fondly by the few number of people that used it!
@@AbdullaZaki I still pull mine out every once in a while but it's always a sad experience for me so I try to keep it locked away with my N8 and N900, phone's that were years ahead of their time and could be enjoying the fruits of being the top OS platform like Android does now if only released earlier and under different circumstances.
Oh man Nokia was so ahead of it's time
Best design ever made by Nokia - Nokia N9 truly deserve the title
I could be wrong but I think the main thing that makes it hard for other systems like Windows phones and Nokia phones to really succeed (besides brand familiarity of apple and android) is app support.
That is true
Nobody will create apps for a os that will only exist on a single phone. Microsoft killed the n9 that's why the phone did not get apps.
So proud to see an Arab delivering such quality content! Best of luck bro!
شكرا لك على كلامك الجميل ودعمك يا عباس :) تسلم
Heart-touching voice. You made me emotional.🥺
Still after 10 years I am always looking for a phone that would have all these intuitive features and gestures. iPhone 11 has the notification screen, but that's it. No phone has been even close to the ease of use as N9. N9 had excellent navigation and combined it to great size. Today they could make it even better with the current super slim bezels and all.
I would love to see a modern take on the N9. Imagine Meego kept getting perfected till now, with the hardware modernized. That would be something
Feel kinda guilty now because i really had quite a collision what to choose - n9 or one of the first Lumias. And this was so crazy and mind-blowing that i feared to take it and chose Lumia. Still liked my Lumia 800 and 1020, still regret WP failure (it was such a shame when Lumias were released by Microsoft, not Nokia), still believe 1020 was my best phone (having iPhone and Android now), but this n9 was a masterpiece. Thx for your review!
You made the more logical choice at the time as it was the future of Nokia. Still, if you have a chance to try the N9 you should. It's a masterpiece. I loved the lumia 800 at the time because of the resemblance :) btw if you liked your Lumia 1020, you can check out my camera review for it on my channel :)
@@AbdullaZaki I've already watched it, bro :) and i had a chance to try n9 and actually used it, that's why i wrote it was kinda mind-blowing.
Nokia for me is not just a company it's a feeling that can only be experienced. Nokia is the only company which takes innovation seriously.
Or at least used to. Its not the same anymore.
At the time I was wishing Nokia went full on Android and kept a modernized version of the already very familiar Symbian interface as an Android UI & skin, while taking advantage of Android's features and app universe. Then Elop dragged Nokia into Microsoft.
The underrated smart phone
Samsung stole the squircle icon shape from them.
They sure did.
Nokia even produced a feature phone with a similar look OS called Asha Platform. That was my favourite feature phone OS. The Asha 501 was the one I had.
Meego was also behind the inspiration of all the later Symbian updates like Anna and Belle. But it was much better than anything running Symbian when it comes to user experience.
i miss those old nokia phones. i wish nokia would re-introduce those old stylish mobiles with an upgraded software. n97 mini, n93, n8, n9...
Wouldn't that be amazing!
Idk why but before i had this android phone, i was wondering to buy nokia n9 even it older. I love it
More Retroview videos please :) Lots of Nokia phones to go back on :)
Sir.. you deserve more than million subscribers..
I owned (still have) the N900, N9 and Jolla phone from back in the day, and boy do I miss using them. There are still things that modern Android cannot do that these phones had like true systemwide multi tasking, why is it still so fragmented? Or simple things like double tap on the screen to wake? The after so long the muscel memory is still very real, somethimes I still find myself swiping from the edge of the screen to go back into my last app.
I had an N8 (still have and still works) and when the N9 came out I was in love with the design that Nokia did. The idea of new OS was also great since I love new and experimental stuff but where Nokia and later on Microsoft failed was to anticipate how important was to have developers work on ypur devices and...make apps. An area where iphone and android where ahead. What the N9 started, MS and windows phone could have made into a true champion of os and hardware...could being the key word.
As a Linux user since 2008 I was so stoked when Nokia 800 shipped with Maemo, followed by N810, and then N9, a flagship phone, was launched with MeeGo Harmattan inside, I thought at the time this is where Linux become mainstream: through mobile devices. Boy I was so disappointed with what happened next
:( I know how you feel.
King back
Always loved Nokia hardware .
Why Nokia failed for me it didn't change with time .
I had Nokia Lumia 1020 which was excellent piece of hardware and camera 👌.
Now I owned Nokia 7.2 which is Great in these times
Symbian held nokia back imo. Especially the transition to touch screens. I created a video for the 7.2 vs the 5.3 if you want to check it out :)
I remember how eagerly I was waiting for this device when they announced and killed the platform altogether later. 😵