Nokia N9 and MeeGo will be supported "for years"

In case you’re worried that the new MeeGo-based N9 won’t get much attention from Nokia after its launch, you shouldn’t. Reportedly, Nokia is committed to supporting the handset, as well as the MeeGo platform, “for years” to come.

That’s what Klas Ström, Head of Portfolio Management at Nokia, recently said on Twitter. He also said that several software updates for the N9 would be released

Sure enough, from now on Nokia’s efforts will be largely concentrated on Windows Phone and, to some extent, onSymbian, too. And although MeeGo will probably not make a huge impact on the smartphone market, it’s good to hear that Nokia stays committed to it – for a while, at least.

Announced a few weeks ago as “the world’s first pure touch screen phone without any front-facing buttons at all”, the Nokia N9 is expected to be released in select markets starting September. There’s no official word on its price, but we’ve heard it may be around €420. Most likely, there will be no other MeeGo smartphone from Nokia after the N9.

• The operating system is MeeGo – which is created by Nokia and Intel
• It’s the very first smartphone without any buttons on the front
• It’s a simple design – in either black, pink or turquoise
• There’s no air between the vivid 3.9” AMOLED display and glass
• You can shoot HD video with the 8 MP camera with wide-angle Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash
• You buy more apps from Ovi Store

It basically has 3 screens you swipe between; your feed or events, your apps – and a screen with all the apps that are open. It’s dead easy to swipe betweens apps and features. And it has this intelligent feature, I have chosen to call a curtain, because you pull, let’s say, a video away from the screen. Neat.

The speaker, which will also be available in stores in September-ish, is a Nokia Play 360° speaker. You just tap your N9 on the speaker, and bang, it connects because of this super cool NFC technology. I like! Couldn’t be easier.