Nokia Nseries is a product family that includes multimedia smartphones. These are mobile devices supporting digital multimedia services such as music playback, video capture, photography, mobile gaming and Internet services. Some Nseries devices support high-speed wireless technology, such as 3G, or Wireless LAN.
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 Carl Zeiss 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.
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 are the balanced phones. they have balanced features and are the cheapest Nseries phones -N8x - 8 series are the camera phones (except N90 and N93) -N9x - 9 series are the high end part of the Nseries
Operating system
The first Nseries device, the N90i, utilised the older Symbian OS 8.1 mobile operating system, as did the N70. Subsequently Nokia switched to using SymbianOS 9 for all later Nseries devices (except the N72, which was based on the N70). Newer Nseries devices incorporate newer revisions of SymbianOS 9 that include Feature Packs. The Nokia N8 will be the first device that will run on Symbian^3.
The N800, N810 and N900 are as of July 2010 the only Nseries devices to not use Symbian OS. They use the Linux-based Maemo.[4]Nokia stated that Maemo would be developed alongside Symbian. Maemo has since (Maemo "6" and beyond) merged with Intel's Moblin, and become MeeGo, which will continue to be developed for mobile devices.
Nokia revealed that the N8 will be the last device in its flagship N-series devices to ship with Symbian OS, but will continue using Symbian on its mass-market handsets.[5][6]Instead Nokia will use MeeGo for its high-end flagship devices.
