About Nokia N9’s Photo Sharing

The N9 has the ability to take excellent photos of various sizes and resolutions up to 8 megapixels. It even has built-in white balance adjustments, filter options, as well as exposure and ISO settings which is more than can be said about built-in camera applications on other mobile platforms. There is little to complain about the N9’s photographic credentials. Except when it comes to sharing the photos to the Internet.

The N9 actually has a decent selection of sharing options. Upon opening the menu to share items within the Gallery app, your next step would be to select the photos you wish to share and then tap the Share button at the bottom of the screen. You are then presented with a list of sharing options which include Facebook, Flickr, MMS, email, bluetooth, and NFC. But there’s a couple of things overlooked.

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Nokia’s N9 gets its first update

If you’re one of the early adopters of the Nokia N9, get ready for an update. Nokia has just announced an over the air software update that’s being rolled out within the next few days and should be completed within two weeks. 

The update weighs in at 218MB so you would want your N9 to be within range of a fast wifi connection and plugged in to a power source. The process supposedly could take up to 40 minutes in which your phone would not be usable until it’s completed and you’re advised to back it up beforehand.

The current version of MeeGo on the N9 is the PR 1.1 (20.2011.40-2_PR_005), at least on the device I’m holding. The update will be designated 40-4 and is said to bring parity to the N950 developer device. 

A number of features are listed on Nokia’s developer blog but it seems rather odd because some of them are already available on my device which I picked up right after Nokia World, namely: 

  • Music controls on the lock screen
  • Multi-language Swype keyboard
  • Default swipe down to close an app 
  • NFC tag reading
  • Photo and video shoot with color filter
  • Notifications on the standby screen

That’s six of the ten listed new features. What’s left?

  • Noise canceling, (can’t say because I don’t use the N9 to make calls)
  • More powerful multitasking (it’s kind of slow right now)
  • Faster MfE (I have no idea what MfE means)
  • Multiple smaller improvements to the OS (can’t tell what these are)

If you’re an N9 owner, have you got those features already or are you looking forward to have them?

So this was announced earlier today in Singapore. Nokia’s upcoming N9, powered by a combination of MeeGo and Maemo software projects that mostly got canned on the company’s way to embrace Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform. Unfortunately the phone is not yet available to test or preview, let alone to buy.

I think a lot of people would be interested in this. Time will tell if the final product will be as smooth and seamless as Apple’s iPhone with iOS or if it will be stuttery and clunky like the current Symbian on the N8. At a glance the interface reminds me of Windows Phone 7 mixed with Android, and that’s not a bad thing.Being a fan of Windows Phone 7, I can’t wait to see how this compares with Nokia’s upcoming WP7 phones.

You can check out a more detailed look at This Is My Next.