Just swipe to take photos with N9

MANILA, Philippines - Don’t you just wish that life has a pause or rewind button so you can linger on or relive exciting moments?

Now, with the new Nokia N9, the newest smartphone from Nokia, it’s so much easier to capture these moments: just touch the phone’s camera icon and swipe.

The Nokia N9 is designed with an intuitive user interface that’s controlled with a simple swipe. Imagine capturing images and videos faster than ever before without compromising on premium picture quality.

To take a photo, simply touch on the camera icon. The viewfinder is all ready, so just focus on the subject and with a swipe the image is captured. All it takes is 2.6 seconds.

Highly responsive and easy to use, the Nokia N9 camera is always ready to capture unique experiences in HD quality with an eight-megapixel sensor and Carl Zeiss optics.

Snap premium photos even in low lighting, thanks to the most powerful LED flash Nokia has ever used. Never worry about photos being out of focus with the latest in continuous auto focusing technology.

The Nokia N9 also features a vivid four-inch AMOLED screen, which brings colors and content right to the surface so you can see the latest photos or relive your favorite videos in brilliant color or artistic black and white.

What’s more, share pictures and videos to family and friends directly from the mobile phone. With the latest smartphone technology, you can see what you have captured, edit your photos and videos and share all clips with friends directly via YouTube, Flickr and Facebook with a simple swipe.

Other camera highlights of the Nokia N9 include:

• The industry’s first imaging sensor fully optimized for both 16:9 and 4:3 images;

• Industry-leading Carl Zeiss optics;

• Super wide-angle optics — the widest in the industry with up to as much as 60 percent more viewing area than other broadly comparable devices;

• f/2.2 aperture, the largest ever in a mobile device, allowing approximately 75 percent more light to reach the image sensor;

• New high power dual LED flash for capturing higher-quality photos, even in the darkest places;

• Non-destructive editing allowing you to go back to the original image at any stage. Plus, you can undo or redo edits even months later;

• Full-time continuous auto focusing and face detection in both video and images;

• HD video with stereo audio (one of very few devices that provide high-quality audio recording in video); 

• Seamless workflows optimized for speed or editing and sharing;

• Geo-tagging with place names;

• Features Automatic Motion Blur Reduction (AMBR) to give more detail to even the most active subjects; and

• Tap to share images between handsets using NFC technology.

The Nokia N9 is available in black, cyan and magenta with 16GB and 64GB storage options. The suggested retail price for the Nokia N9 16GB variant is P24,990 and P29,450 for the 64GB variant.

Find out more about the new Nokia N9 by visiting http://swipe.nokia.com.