Shows The Nokia N9 Meego-based Smartphone

Nokia N9 is available in three colors.

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Nokia unveiled a new smartphone in the company's flagship N-series.

Dubbed as the Nokia N9, the unit comes with a curved design and a 3.9 inch AMOLED screen. According to Nokia, the N9 will come in three colors - black, cyan, and magenta - and offers 16GB and 64GB storage. The smartphone will ship with an 8 megapixel camera that allows the autofocus and the "capture HD quality video."

Unlike its predecessor, the Nokia N8, N9 Meego based, Linux-based mobile operating system, which should have been go-business platform in the future. Last year, a Nokia spokesman said an interview with Reuters that the N8, the "N-Series devices based on Meego." At that time, he should be running the Nokia Symbian smartphones.

But the future of MeeGo, at least on Nokia smartphones, is now much in doubt.

Earlier this year, Microsoft and Nokia today announced signed that would see a lot of Windows Mobile become the "main" operating system for Nokia line of equipment. The announcement by Intel, one of the companies behind the Meego, CNET said in an interview that he was not satisfied with the decision of Nokia to work with Microsoft, and was waiting to take the rest of the operating system.

"This is a decision to Nokia. Yes, we are disappointed with it," said a spokesman for Intel in the announcement of Nokia-Microsoft. "But we still believe it is a smartphone [MeeGo]. And we're talking with other partners. But it is also netbooks, tablets, set-top boxes, automotive systems. It is much more than the element just phone. "

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