just slowly slide your finger away from the button before releasing, then photo won't be taken and you can re-focus by pressing on the button again.

i tested out the camera, the ISO settings la. you put ISO 100 vs ISO 800, the difference is ISO 100 darker than ISO 800. ideally the exposure should be the same lor, after all that's what the exposure compensation setting for.

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Added on October 13, 2011, 12:31 amerm. i tried that. lemme go try EVEN SLOWER then ............

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Added on October 13, 2011, 12:36 amhrmm. ok here's what i found out..........

1. all this while I was sliding it slowly but I was sliding it OFF the screen. Apparently the system doesn't take that as slide away but as taking a shot.

2. all you have to do is slide away, doesn't have to be slow, but just as long as away from the button but finger still on the screen.

Anyone use msn messenger on nokia N9?

First of all, is there a MSN Messenger on Nokia N9?

erm... one little question here from my lil bro, where should we download the themes and non-store games ?
so far as i seen, the forums out in the web... they referring n9 as n900.. and i was like :facepalm:

i can not find it,lets why i ask.haha

Atm i cant find that too. Lets hope for soon but for nokia N900 there is

Foursquare for MeeGo is really COOL! Even better than Android's version.. Love the transition and effects in this app. Plus N9 locks the position faster and better than my SGS

+1 for Foursquare

Yea its lovely but 1 thing I dislike u can't add people. I need switch to my nokia x7 to do so lol

Hope they will fix it on the next update

Love the most is the animation of the crown for the mayor lol. Bu I notice this version of foursquare takes more data to load compare to squick

As previous mentioned, just slide it out of the focus/capture "button".

Try turn on face detection as well. Like aspire mentioned, there's continuous auto-focus, just it's not very fast, but it works. I just point the camera let it auto-focus itself then just snap as it goes.

The good thing about this over the N8 is that, the shutter speed seems is higher priority in auto mode (just like iPhone? probaby also due to no dedicated camera button), so it takes less blurry shot and it's easier/better experience to take photo compared to N8.

Yup, this part N900/Maemo still way better; Wonder why they didn't implement this, since they have it in Maemo; Plus, in Maemo, you can choose the upload quality from low to high up to ORIGINAL.

Can even post photo to wall. Only cannot post photo to others wall; Have to login to browser and post from there.

Yup, I've said it before long ago adn many times; not a true replacement for N900, it's just different; It's more like a refined N8, a better Symbian? It's just so much changes from Maemo.


The faster shutter in priority is nice, less blurry shot and better experience; Plus the continuous auto-focus. Nice.
The quality is not so bad for lowlight just that it's a bit dark or underexpose by default, or probably already maxed out the ISO, and still intend to keep the higher shutter priority.

Wonder how slow can the shutter go.


This post has been edited by Andy214: Oct 13 2011, 09:48 AM

erm, yeah i mentioned that earlier on how i did wrong.



me no need that.



usually la, camera on phone, you set low ISO it will slower the shutter, high ISO it will faster the shutter. just like any other digital camera out there.

retaining the same exposure level. for the N9 I find that the shutter speed maintains, so the lower the ISO the darker the picture. I haven't view the EXIF.



I like Maemo / N900 because it works EXACTLY like my computer! It's really a Linux in tiny-tablet.




you spoke similar to what I posted on Facebook last night, in a comment about the N9

"N9 is still not a N900 replacement. OS feels more like an improved Symbian than Linux itself, but very fluid!"

Let's just say it is a first version OS and still unpolished. The music player need some work. No cover flow and no graphic equalizer. When you select a recently used album there is no way to display the tracklist. Ability to search download lyric would be great. But the audio quality is superb.

oh boy cant wait for an update to iron out all the wrinkles. wonder when it will be out

This post has been edited by blurrik: Oct 13 2011, 10:54 AM

Yup, but this phone seems to have higher priority for shutter in auto mode. I don't have to set the ISO high (unlike N8 or most digital camera, it will prioritize using lower ISO), the N9 will use higher ISO to compensate the higher shutter, OR maybe the shutter has a limited low speed to minimize shake when using on screen capture button?

Have to experiment to see what is the lowest ss it will go.

Yup, afterall, it's a Tablet OS
Loved the Desktop, you can have very unique and customized desktop. Just so much potential in that OS, sadly, it's stops there.



Perhaps the MeeGo Tablet version will be a more proper replacement

i second your statement on the lower the ISO the darker the picture....seems like N9 have set minimum shutter to the camera to avoid camera shake but sacrifice the light capture ability

N900 indeed still the best pocket PC I have ever had....

hmm anyone disappointed with n9 battery life?, almost all the comment i read so far is people saying battery can last 2-3 days with high usage.

But from what i can see so far base on my usage pattern is it can only last like 1day.

This is my usage pattern
6am full charge 96%(this phone dosent charge 100%)

7.30am surf some web for 30 minutes using 3g (77%)

9am-6pm dint touch phone much no calls or sms (55%)

In contrast with iPhone 4/ galaxy s 2 i am getting much better battery life especially on iPhone 4

This is what I did to get nearly 2.5 days battery life (short of 3 hours).

1) Brightness - set to the minimum.
2) Usage - push email (3 emails), Facebook, Twitter and web surfing (about 30 minutes in total during the 2.5 days).
3) No, I didn't activate power saving mode like what others claim I'm doing. Push email will not work with that.
4) Connected only via WiFi. And I am on 2G mode (but not using mobile data).

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Added on October 13, 2011, 11:38 amCalls, SMS etc are as usual lar.

This post has been edited by ViRaViRa: Oct 13 2011, 11:38 AM

3G data is known to have suck up battery life....so if possible try to avoid using 3G data at all cost

so far the further I can go 36 hours with dual network mode. but no mobile data usage.

viravira....you sure are super light user! hahaa