Nokia N9

The Nokia N9.

A beautiful slab of curved, coloured polycarbonate plastic with a Gorilla Glass display. Using Meego (a Linux/Intel collab) as the OS, Nokia is shunning it’s own gameplan by introducing a truly exciting UI and fantastic industrial design sans Windows Phone 7. Some say that the lack of a pre-existant Meego ‘ecosystem’ will stunt the success of this otherwise critically acclaimed phone, but in a time when technology is so disposable – and when stock smartphones are loaded with highly functional first-party applications – Nokia has a great opportunity to snatch back some market share, and more importantly street cred, with the N9.