Nokia Nseries
Encyclopedia
Nokia Nseries is a multimedia
smartphone
product family which is engineered
and marketed by the Nokia Corporation
.
The Nseries devices are known to commonly support multiple high-speed wireless technologies, such as 3G
, or Wireless LAN
.
Digital multimedia services, such as music playback, photo/video capture or viewing, gaming or internet services are also supported.
, N90
and N91
. On 2 November 2005, Nokia announced the N71
, N80
and N92
, and on 25 April 2006, Nokia announced the N72
, N73
and N93
, and on 26 September 2006, Nokia announced the N75
and N95
.On 8 January 2007, Nokia announced the Nokia N76
, Nokia N77 and Nokia N93i
. On 29 August 2007, Nokia announced the N95 8GB
, N81
, N81 8GB, and on 14 November 2007, Nokia announced the N82
, the first Nokia with xenon flash. At the 2008 GSMA held in Barcelona, the N96
and N78
were unveiled. Two new Nseries devices were revealed at the end of August 2008, the Nokia N79
and Nokia N85
. On December 2, 2008, Nokia Nseries announced the Nokia N97
. On February 17, 2009, Nokia announced the Nokia N86 8MP, which is Nokia's first 8 megapixel phone. The Nokia N8
with 12 megapixel camera was announced in April 2010 and now on 21 june'11 Nokia has showcased their all new Nokia N9
based on MeeGo
OS, their fourth Non- Symbian N-series (after N800 N810 & N900) phone which is all set to launch in Q4 2011
The numbers describe the traits of the phone:
, as did the N70. Subsequently Nokia switched to using SymbianOS 9 for all later Nseries devices (except the N72, which was based on the N70). Newer Nseries devices incorporate newer revisions of SymbianOS 9 that include Feature Packs. The N800, N810 and N900 are as of July 2010 the only Nseries devices to not use Symbian OS. They use the Linux
-based Maemo.
Nokia stated that Maemo would be developed alongside Symbian.
Maemo has since (Maemo "6" and beyond) merged with Intel's Moblin, and become MeeGo
, which will continue to be developed for mobile devices.
The Nokia N8
is the first device to function on the Symbian^3 mobile operating system
.
Nokia revealed that the N8 will be the last device in its flagship N-series devices to ship with Symbian OS.
Instead, Nokia will use Microsoft Windows Phone 7
for its high-end flagship devices, and revealed the Nokia N9
will function on the MeeGo
mobile operating system
.
In June at the Nokia Connections in Singapore Nokia launched the new N9 with Meego 1.2 Harmattan OS which the company calls Qt device as the whole app and UI framework is written in Qt. Its also the world's first pure touch phone with no buttons for home screen and a great new swipe UI. many pundits in telecom industry are hailing it and have been impressed with the UI and great Industrial design and given favourable
reviews. The device is expected to be sold in selected regions in Q3 2011
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
smartphone
Smartphone
A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...
product family which is engineered
Product Family Engineering
Product family engineering , also known as product line engineering, is a synonym for "domain engineering" created by the Software Engineering Institute, a term coined by James Neighbors in his 1980 dissertation at University of California, Irvine...
and marketed by the Nokia Corporation
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
.
The Nseries devices are known to commonly support multiple high-speed wireless technologies, such as 3G
3G
3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...
, or Wireless LAN
Wireless LAN
A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...
.
Digital multimedia services, such as music playback, photo/video capture or viewing, gaming or internet services are also supported.
History
On 27 April 2005, Nokia announced a new brand of multimedia devices at the press conference of mobile phone manufacturers in Amsterdam. The first three Nseries devices introduced at the conference consists of N70Nokia N70
The Nokia N70 is a multimedia 3G smartphone made by Nokia and launched in Q3 2005. This phone is one of the first phones released for Nokia's line of Multimedia computers, the Nokia Nseries. Nokia N70 is released alongside with Nokia N90 and Nokia N91....
, N90
Nokia N90
The Nokia N90 multimedia is a smartphone with two displays and Carl Zeiss optics . It has a 2 megapixel built-in digital camera with autofocus, 20× digital zoom, integrated flash, macro mode and the ability to record high quality video . The phone has no vibration feature...
and N91
Nokia N91
The Nokia N91 is a mobile phone that was released to the public in April of 2006. It is part of the Nokia Nseries range of mobile phones. At the time of release, it was the most advanced music phone ever launched by nokia. N91 also won the 'Most Innovative Product' award in recognition of its true...
. On 2 November 2005, Nokia announced the N71
Nokia N71
The Nokia N71 is a multimedia 3G clamshell smartphone by Nokia with a 2 megapixel camera, a built-in flash, a front camera to allow real-time video calling, FM radio, Bluetooth, digital music player functionality, comes standard with a full , and has support for 3D Java games.Other features...
, N80
Nokia N80
The Nokia N80 is a multimedia 3G smartphone made by Nokia with support for high-speed UMTS/WCDMA connections. Features include a 3.1 megapixel camera with built-in flash , another camera for videoconferencing, Wi-Fi , Universal Plug and Play , FM radio, Bluetooth 1.2, digital music player...
and N92
Nokia N92
The Nokia N92 mobile phone is one of the Nseries mobile phones from Nokia. It is Nokia's first ever dedicated mobile television device.- Specification :*Manufacturer: Nokia*Type: Smartphone...
, and on 25 April 2006, Nokia announced the N72
Nokia N72
The Nokia N72 is one of Nokia's high-end Nseries mobile phones, it is effectively a re-branded Nokia N70 with a reduced feature set. It was launched in May 2006.-Features:...
, N73
Nokia N73
The Nokia N73 is a smartphone by Nokia officially described as a "multimedia computer". In common with other Nokia 'Nseries' and 'Eseries' phones of its time , the N73 comes loaded with many software applications, including contacts, messaging, picture and video galleries, a music player, a Visual...
and N93
Nokia N93
The Nokia N93 is a smartphone by Nokia especially designed for multimedia use. It was introduced in April 2006 and released in July 2006.The N93 has improved camera capabilities compared with the earlier N90. The phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and 3x optical zoom as well as a...
, and on 26 September 2006, Nokia announced the N75
Nokia N75
The Nokia N75 is a smartphone by Nokia. It uses Series 60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS. AT&T Mobility is a carrier of the N75 in the USA. It has been made specifically for the North American 3G market, supporting WCDMA 850/1900 frequencies, however it will still be available in other countries such as...
and N95
Nokia N95
The Nokia N95 is a smartphone produced by Nokia as part of their Nseries line of portable devices. It was released in 2007. The N95 runs Symbian OS v9.2, with a S60 3rd Edition user interface. The phone has a two-way sliding mechanism, which can be used to access either media playback buttons or...
.On 8 January 2007, Nokia announced the Nokia N76
Nokia N76
The Nokia N76 is a multimedia 3G Smartphone made by Nokia. It was introduced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 in January 2007 and was launched on 5 May 2007 with a sales price of 390 EUR. It is advertised as "The computer done beautifully" and as a "multimedia computer"...
, Nokia N77 and Nokia N93i
Nokia N93i
The Nokia N93i is a smartphone produced by Nokia. It is part of the Nokia Nseries line of high-end smartphones and is a redesign of the Nokia N93. The N93i runs on Symbian OS version 9.1, with the Series 60 3rd Edition user interface. The phone is a clamshell design with a camera and landscape...
. On 29 August 2007, Nokia announced the N95 8GB
Nokia N95
The Nokia N95 is a smartphone produced by Nokia as part of their Nseries line of portable devices. It was released in 2007. The N95 runs Symbian OS v9.2, with a S60 3rd Edition user interface. The phone has a two-way sliding mechanism, which can be used to access either media playback buttons or...
, N81
Nokia N81
The Nokia N81 is a smartphone announced by Nokia on August 29 2007. The phone is compatible with the N-Gage 2.0 mobile gaming service.- Problems :The Nokia N81 suffered from lower sound output due to the release of the new firmware version...
, N81 8GB, and on 14 November 2007, Nokia announced the N82
Nokia N82
The Nokia N82 is a smartphone produced by Nokia. It is part of the company's Nseries line of smartphones which features the N-Gage gaming platform and the Nokia Music store...
, the first Nokia with xenon flash. At the 2008 GSMA held in Barcelona, the N96
Nokia N96
Nokia N96 is a Nokia smartphone in the Nseries range of products. It is the official successor to Nokia N95.The handset was publicly announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 2008, and started shipping in September 2008. Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific are the first locations...
and N78
Nokia N78
The Nokia N78 is a multimedia 3G Smartphone made by Nokia, designed by Joeske Schellen. It was first introduced at the Mobile World Congress in February 2008, and was launched on 26 May 2008 for €350 before taxes and subsidies...
were unveiled. Two new Nseries devices were revealed at the end of August 2008, the Nokia N79
Nokia N79
Nokia N79 is a smartphone and a member of the Nokia Nseries multimedia smartphone family. It was officially announced by Nokia on 26 August 2008...
and Nokia N85
Nokia N85
The Nokia N85 is a smartphone produced by Nokia. The N85's functions include those of a camera phone and portable media player, in addition to offering e-mail, web browsing, local Wi-Fi connectivity, text messaging and a built-in GPS receiver, allowing satellite navigation using no external...
. On December 2, 2008, Nokia Nseries announced the Nokia N97
Nokia N97
Nokia N97 is a touch screen mobile phone in the Nseries of smartphones by Nokia, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard...
. On February 17, 2009, Nokia announced the Nokia N86 8MP, which is Nokia's first 8 megapixel phone. The Nokia N8
Nokia N8
The Nokia N8 is a Symbian^3 smartphone of the Nokia Nseries and Nokia's flagship device of 2010. It was released on 23 September 2010 at the Nokia Online Store before being released in markets around the world on 1 October 2010. The N8 features a 12 megapixel camera, a pentaband 3.5G radio and...
with 12 megapixel camera was announced in April 2010 and now on 21 june'11 Nokia has showcased their all new Nokia N9
Nokia N9
The Nokia N9 is a smartphone made by Nokia based on the MeeGo "Harmattan" mobile operating system, the first from Nokia on the MeeGo OS...
based on MeeGo
MeeGo
MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project. Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market, MeeGo is designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry-level desktops, nettops, tablet...
OS, their fourth Non- Symbian N-series (after N800 N810 & N900) phone which is all set to launch in Q4 2011
Features
The Nokia Nseries is aimed at users looking to pack as many features as possible into one device. The better-than-average cameras often found on Nseries devices (with many using the higher-quality Carl Zeiss optics) are one such example, as are the video and music playback and photo viewing capabilities of these devices, which resemble those of standalone portable media devices. In all recently launched devices GPS, MP3 player and WLAN functionality also have been present.The numbers describe the traits of the phone:
- N7x - 7 series are the balanced, least expensive Nseries range with less features
- N8x - 8 series are the higher range Nseries range w/ cameras (ex. N90 and N93)
- N9x - 9 series are the highest end and the most expensive Nseries range models
Operating systems
The first Nseries device, the N90, utilised the older Symbian OS 8.1 mobile operating systemMobile operating system
A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...
, as did the N70. Subsequently Nokia switched to using SymbianOS 9 for all later Nseries devices (except the N72, which was based on the N70). Newer Nseries devices incorporate newer revisions of SymbianOS 9 that include Feature Packs. The N800, N810 and N900 are as of July 2010 the only Nseries devices to not use Symbian OS. They use the Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
-based Maemo.
Nokia stated that Maemo would be developed alongside Symbian.
Maemo has since (Maemo "6" and beyond) merged with Intel's Moblin, and become MeeGo
MeeGo
MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project. Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market, MeeGo is designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry-level desktops, nettops, tablet...
, which will continue to be developed for mobile devices.
The Nokia N8
Nokia N8
The Nokia N8 is a Symbian^3 smartphone of the Nokia Nseries and Nokia's flagship device of 2010. It was released on 23 September 2010 at the Nokia Online Store before being released in markets around the world on 1 October 2010. The N8 features a 12 megapixel camera, a pentaband 3.5G radio and...
is the first device to function on the Symbian^3 mobile operating system
Mobile operating system
A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...
.
Nokia revealed that the N8 will be the last device in its flagship N-series devices to ship with Symbian OS.
Instead, Nokia will use Microsoft Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...
for its high-end flagship devices, and revealed the Nokia N9
Nokia N9
The Nokia N9 is a smartphone made by Nokia based on the MeeGo "Harmattan" mobile operating system, the first from Nokia on the MeeGo OS...
will function on the MeeGo
MeeGo
MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project. Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market, MeeGo is designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry-level desktops, nettops, tablet...
mobile operating system
Mobile operating system
A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...
.
List of Nseries devices
Main article: List of devices in Nokia's modern phone seriesIn June at the Nokia Connections in Singapore Nokia launched the new N9 with Meego 1.2 Harmattan OS which the company calls Qt device as the whole app and UI framework is written in Qt. Its also the world's first pure touch phone with no buttons for home screen and a great new swipe UI. many pundits in telecom industry are hailing it and have been impressed with the UI and great Industrial design and given favourable
reviews. The device is expected to be sold in selected regions in Q3 2011
See also
- Nokia Cseries
- Nokia EseriesNokia EseriesThe Nokia Eseries consists of business-oriented smartphones, with emphasis on enhanced connectivity and support for corporate e-mail push services. All devices have advanced office features...
- Nokia Xseries
- List of Nokia products