It’s somehow fitting, running our review of the much-anticipated Nokia N9 smartphone on the eve of Nokia World 2011. The company is expected to reveal its plans for salvation, namely adopting Windows Phone, while the N9 runs what Nokia used to believe would save it, MeeGo. A splash of uniqueness never hurt any device, and the N9 has built up a vocal following, convinced MeeGo should have been the Finn’s focus instead of a deal with Microsoft. Has rarity blinded rationality, or is the N9 really a bittersweet slice of not just what could’ve been, but what should’vebeen? Read on for the full SlashGear review.

Hardware

Even the harshest Symbian critics have struggled to criticise Nokia’s hardware, and with good reason: the company has consistently pushed out slickly-designed phones and smartphones. If we had a dollar for every semi-recent Nokia handset review we’ve seen that concludes “If this phone were running Android” or similar, well, we’d probably have enough to buy ourselves an N9 outright.
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