This sensational feat has the N9 running all the following concurrently:

• MeeGo
• iOS 5
• HTC Sense (Android),
• Windows Phone 7
•  BlackBerry OS
•  Samsung’s TouchWiz (Android again)
• Symbian Anna.

Even if it counts like 6 “Operating Systems” and not 7, it’s still a feat that is demoed in the video link here. I want to apologize for not putting the video up in a window, but there seemed to be some difficulty getting this Chinese-originated video to embed.

Essentially this all-in-Chinese video shows a N9 switching between multiple customized instances. To make this clear, these are merely instances and the N9 is not REALLY running all these operating systems, instead it is customized to look like it is.

This collection of more or less good “customizations” are really most likely running on MeeGo, which is struggles to keep alive and relevant these days.

As Wikipedia teaches us:

Strictly speaking, the Nokia N9 does not run MeeGo 1.2 as its operating system. It instead runs what Nokia refers to as a “MeeGo instance”. During the development of Harmattan (previously marketed as Maemo 6), Nokia and Intel merged their open source projects into one new common project called MeeGo.

Jokes of 7 OSes aside, MeeGo’s chameleon abilities to run many customizations without rebooting remains quite spectacular. MeeGo Tablet UX customization principles were recently reported at the MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco. There’s also quite a sizable MeeGo community that is striving to keep all such “MeeGo instances” relevant.

On top of that, there’s also a distant possibility that MeeGo might have some secret virtualization capabilities, similar to the Android App Player running on Blackberry OS 2.

I don’t believe there are some “instances” of QNX (RIM Blackberry OS), or Apple’s iOS 5.0 somewhere in the wild and running on “wrong” hardware with MeeGo. Still, it may happen one day or maybe not at all, but in any case MeeGo is fun and you should enjoy it if you can and while it lasts.

UPDATE: While still interesting to see a device that runs 7 unique customizations, many of our users have indicated this is in fact a Chinese clone and not the real N9. The real hardware in the clone is somewhat unknown. Still, this $65 clone running 7 different customizations is pretty interesting.

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Yes, Windows Phone has made its way over to Finland. The squared off edges and corners give us a general sense that the Sea Ray (which is presumably just a codename for now) has the same kind of design scheme overall as the Nokia N9, except for the obvious OS difference. In this case, it looks like the new Nokia is running Mango. That’s pretty suitable for the first fruit of the relationship.

Not much in terms of details has been discovered about the Sea Ray, aside from its relatively slender profile, physical camera button on the side, and slight adjustment of the LED flash placement. Nokia has always produced some world class hardware. Let’s hope that WP7 is the world class software that’ll bring their stock prices back up and, for their sake, bring some market share back to the one mega-giant of the cellular world.

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You know how Nokia is supposed to be doing the Windows Phone 7 thing with Microsoft these days? Well, they’re not quite ready to give up on their own platforms just yet either. It’s not Symbian, but the new Nokia N9 is hitting the streets with MeeGo instead of Windows.

As has become the modus operandi for the Finnish phonemaker lately, the Nokia N9 boasts some very svelte and very impressive hardware, but the software doesn’t quite capture us in quite the same way. The N9 comes equipped with a 3.9-inch curved AMOLED display, NFC support (pre-loaded with Angry Birds Magic), Ovi Maps, Gorilla Glass, 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and LED flash.

Going under the hood, we discover a 1GHz TI OMAP3630 SoC, 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, PowerVR SGC530 GPU, and 1GB of RAM. That’s pretty powerful. Rounding up the specs are HSDPA, WiFi-n, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, accelerometer, digital compass, and a microSIM slot. Strangely, there’s no microSD slot to expand the 16GB or 64GB of internal memory.

The styling on this slate-style phone is similar in some ways to the Nokia N8, but you get to pick from a few different colors for the polycarbonate unibody. No word on a launch date yet, but I think Nokia would have been better off focusing on its WP7 efforts instead.

The guys at engadget got some hands on time with the Meego N9, here are the comments and a video below:

The Clear Black AMOLED display is truly a sight to behold, with stunning viewing angles, a curved Gorilla Glass front, and some pretty excellent (for AMOLED) performance out in the sunlight. We compared it side by side with a Super LCD-equipped Incredible S and the N9 more than held its own. The screen is easily one of this new phone’s great strengths, though we’d argue the intuitive UI, responsiveness, and eye-catching industrial design are pretty high up on that list too. All in all, we’re highly impressed by what Nokia has put together here, though the N9 does beg the question as to why the company has opted against making MeeGo its long-term smartphone OS of choice.

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The most notable difference between the N9 and the N8, of course, is that slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The specs are spotty at best, but we fully expect this upcoming smartphone to be powered by the same Meego OS as its N8 predecessor. It’s shown here in silver, but a black version should also be available at time of launch too.

And what is the source of the this leak? Well, it turns out that it’s Eldar Murtazin again. Remember that this is the same guy that reviewed the N8 before it was released, getting raided by Russian police in a similar fashion as Gizmodo’s Jason Chen over so-called the bar-dropped iPhone 4.

We don’t know if Eldar happened to pick this phone up in an expat bar — the Nokia N9 shown here was spotted over in China — but he fully believes this is totally legit and the Nokia N9 will hit retail channels in the first week of December. As always, take rumors and leaks with a grain of salt.

QWERTY totin’ Nokia N9 appears in China [MobileCrunch]

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