How to use a Nokia N9 in 2020, the starting guide.

This article is a guide for you, that bought this masterpiece of Industrial Design… but some things have changed since 2012!

Giovanni Minelli
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Article rev 1.7 — Updated April 2020

The nostalgia phone: a new Nokia N9, in 2020

We are in 2020 and you know that the actual “lineage” of Meego Harmattan is represented by Sailfish OS: an updated OS created by Jolla, that you can flash into some Sony Xperia devices.

But you wants the Nokia N9 for a different reason, because of nostalgia.
Nostalgia of what it could be instead, or you just ant to collect the item.

In the end you bought on ebay the phone: if you’re lucky, it’s a new old stock item with plastics.

I did the same few years ago — I re-bought a Nokia N9 —and this article is the beginning of the path.

The #unboxing

The item I bought had a blue packaging made of cheap cardboard, as if it were part of an initial test run, or one of the last.
My previous N9 Cyan had a packaging printed on glossy paper, with a paint effects on…

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Giovanni Minelli
Jolla-Devices bulletin

Art director & Designer. Writing about Apple, alternative OS, marketing and photography • www.minodesign.it