The Nokia Nseries was a high-end lineup of

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s, and

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s marketed by

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from 2005 to 2011. The Nseries devices commonly supported multiple high-speed wireless technologies at the time, such as 3G, or

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. Digital multimedia services, such as music playback, photo/video capture or viewing, gaming or internet services were the central focus of the lineup. The lineup was replaced in 2011 by the

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line as the company's primary smartphone lineup. The

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tablet was introduced in November 2014 and so revived the 'N' prefix, but it was not marketed as 'Nseries'.

History

On 27 April 2005, Nokia announced a new brand of multimedia devices at the press conference of mobile phone manufacturers in Amsterdam. The first three Nseries devices introduced at the conference consists of N70, N90 and N91. On 2 November 2005, Nokia announced the N71, N80 and N92, and on 25 April 2006, Nokia announced the N72, N73 and N93, and on 26 September 2006, Nokia announced the N75 and

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. On 8 January 2007, Nokia announced the

Nokia N76 The Nokia N76 is a multimedia 3G Smartphone made by Nokia. It was introduced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 in January 2007 and was launched on 5 May 2007 with a sales price of 390 EUR. It is advertised as "The computer done beautifully" and as a ...

Nokia N77 The Nokia N77 is a 3G smartphone from Nokia, introduced on 12 February 2007 and released in June 2007. It runs on Symbian 9.1 ( S60 3rd Edition). The N77's specs were somewhat basic compared with most Nseries devices at the time, but it include ...

and

Nokia N93i The Nokia N93i (also known as the N93i-1) is a smartphone produced by Nokia, announced on 8 January 2007 and released the same month. It is part of the Nseries line and is a redesign of the Nokia N93. The N93i runs on Symbian OS version 9.1, ...

. On 29 August 2007, Nokia announced the N95 8GB, N81, N81 8GB, and on 14 November 2007, Nokia announced the N82, the first Nokia with

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. At the 2008 GSMA held in Barcelona, the N96 and N78 were unveiled. Two new Nseries devices were revealed at the end of August 2008, the Nokia N79 and Nokia N85. On 2 December 2008, Nokia Nseries announced the Nokia N97. On 17 February 2009, Nokia announced the Nokia N86 8MP, which is Nokia's first 8-megapixel phone. The

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with 12-

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camera was announced in April 2010 and on 21 June 2011 Nokia showcased their Nokia N9

based on the

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OS, their fourth non-Symbian Nseries device (after the

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OS-based

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and

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Internet tablets, and N900 smartphone). The Nseries was retired and replaced by Lumia that year. The company introduced the

tablet on 18 November 2014, which marked the return of the N prefix, but 'Nseries' branding has still been absent.

Features

The Nokia Nseries is aimed at users looking to pack as many features as possible into one device. The better-than-average cameras often found on Nseries devices (with many using the higher-quality

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optics) are one such example, as are the video and music playback and photo viewing capabilities of these devices, which resemble those of standalone portable media devices. As of 2008, in all recently launched devices GPS, MP3 player and WLAN functionality also have been present. The numbers describe the traits of the phone: * N7x - 7 series is the balanced, least expensive Nseries range with fewer features * N8x - 8 series is the higher range Nseries range w/ cameras (ex. N82, N85 and N86 8MP) * N9x - 9 series is the highest end and the most expensive Nseries range, considered the flagship devices There are exceptions though - considering N8x, both the N82 and N86 8MP were top-of-the-range smartphones with advanced cameras, so are clearly 'high-end' as their fellow N9x models.

Operating systems

The first Nseries device was the Nokia N90 in 2005, which ran the

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8.1

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with

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2nd Edition Feature Pack 3, as did the simultaneously-announced Nokia N70. The

, released in September 2010, was the world's first phone to run Symbian^3, and the first phone by Nokia featuring a 12-

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. On the

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and Nokia N810 Internet tablets (2007), and

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(2009), Nokia chose to use the

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-based

operating system.Home of the Maemo community , maemo.org
/ref> The last Nseries mobile phones were the Nokia N9 and developer-only

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, released in September 2011. Maemo had merged with

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's Moblin to create

in May 2010, so Nokia opted to use MeeGo "Harmattan" 1.2 for these devices. The Android-powered Nseries tablet

developed by

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, released in January 2015, uses

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5.0 (Lollipop). It is manufactured by

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and has 8-megapixel back camera and 5-megapixel front camera.

List of Nseries devices

In June 2011 at the Nokia Connections in Singapore, Nokia launched the new N9 with MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan OS which the company calls Qt device as the whole app and UI framework is written in Qt. It is also the world's first pure touch phone with no buttons for home screen and a great new swipe UI. Reviews have been average to good for this phone, with most reviewers liking the phone's good quality and operating system, but expressing concern over the fact that it loses out to competitors in terms of specs. The device was expected to be sold in selected regions in Q3 2011.

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