Nokia unveils the N9

This is not a scoop: Nokia bleeding right now. To stop the bleeding, the Finnish company has partnered with Microsoft to use Windows Phone 7. But until the first models (late 2011 or early 2012), Nokia introduced on Tuesday in Singapore, N9, his first - and last-MeeGo smartphone OS, the system derived from Linux, created by the merger between Maemo Nokia and Intel's Moblin.

On the hardware side, Nokia has a sexy phone in three colors (black, cyan, magenta) without any button on the touch screen of 3.9 inch AMOLED. As for the iPhone 4, the design gives the impression that the image is the "surface" of the screen. The camera rises to 8 megapixels and shoots in 720p. The N9 embeds an NFC chip (for contactless payment) and 1 GB of RAM. Only disappointment, the processor 1 GHz (the same as the Droid and Pre2 X) is not dual-core and will be a bit exceeded the output of the device, just announced for "later this year."

On the software side, 1.2 MeeGo Harmattan, which is reminiscent of his WebOS interface based on the "swipe" (lateral move), leaves a bitter taste. Modern and well thought out, it should be the system of the future for Nokia, which has finally decided to change strategy for Windows Phone 7. Although native apps (Nokia Maps, Facebook, Twitter) are there, and that others will follow if MeeGo continues his life with other manufacturers (including shelves), this launch with great fanfare sounds like a song of the sign.