Nokia's recently announced smartphone, the N9, may be the Finnish handset maker's first as well as last phone running the MeeGo operating system as the handset maker has already announced its decision to adopt Microsoft's Windows mobile platform.

MeeGo, a Linux-based operating system, was developed Nokia in partnership with world's renowned chip-maker Intel to compete against Apple's iOS and Google's Android. But, Nokia soon announced a deal with software giant Microsoft to focus on Windows Phones.

However, the N9 smartphone alone is capable of challenging powerful rivals in the market, such as the iPhone and a number of high-end Android phones.

The first, and most probably the last, MeeGo-based handset, the N9, runs on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan OS, and comes equipped with a 3.9-inch AMOLED Gorilla glass-made touchscreen that offers a resolution of 854 x
480 pixels.

The list of technical specs includes a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 OMAP3630 CPU, an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with HD video recording capability, built-in near field communication (NFC) chip, 512 MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, GPS, support for 16:9 widescreen video playback & Dolby decoding, turn-by-turn drive & walk navigation, support for HTML5.