You can watch the video to see the smartphone in action. Thankfully, we already know a lot about the phone including specificaitons. We know it has a 4-inch TFT LCD and a physical QWERTY keyboard under the screen. The screen also angles when open like a little netbook to let you see more comfortably while typing. The N950 uses a 1GHz processor and a PowerVX SGX530 for graphics. The N9 uses these same parts.

Power comes from a 1320 mAh battery and the N950 gets Bluetooth 2.1. Nokia has maintained that the N950 is a developer device and isn’t intended to be an everyday phone. The N950 has also already been torn apart so we can gander at the insides. The full 17 minute video is below for you to look at and if you speak Thai and the guy on camera gives up any cool tidbits let us know.

[via Twitter]

Various budget-friendly Android tablets are on their way, including the Vizio 8-inch tablet, Acer Iconia Tab A100, Archos G9 series 8-inch and 10-inch tablets, and the Huawei MediaPad. Various smartphones are either on their way or have just launched, including the Motorola TRIUMPH, Droid 3, and Droid Bionic. There’s also the AT&T LG Thrill 4G and the T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide. Some Apple news rounds out this week’s review. The full video and list of pertinent links can be found below.

Nokia:
Nokia N9 official: 3.9-inch MeeGo smartphone
Nokia N9 hands-on [Video]
Nokia N9 on sale “within a month”?
Nokia N9 Android app support promised with Alien Dalvik
N9 camera fastest around boasts Nokia; NFC image transfers supported
Nokia N9 Sweden Release September 23rd, Gorilla Ice Cream in Tow
Nokia Windows Phone gets demo: N9-a-like shows Microsoft love [Video]
Nokia unveils new accessories for its smartphones
Nokia N9 and NFC Nokia Play 360 speaker hands-on [Video]
Nokia N950 confirmed for MeeGo devs: 4-inch QWERTY slider
Nokia N950 arriving with MeeGo developers now
Nokia N950 gets video tease
Nokia N950 teardown revealed

RIM:
RIM Forcing Half-Baked BlackBerrys On To Carriers?
Seesmic App Drops BlackBerry Support, Other Apps To Follow?
RIM Starts Layoffs After Dismal BlackBerry News
RIM slashes PlayBook sales goals for Q2 2011

Upcoming budget-friendly Android tablets:
Vizio 8-Inch Android Tablet Demoed In Hands-On
Acer Iconia Tab A100 Hits Walmart For $349
Archos G9 Android 3.1 Tablets Get Dual-Core Fast, 250GB Storage, 3G Ready, And Low Price
Huawei MediaPad brings Android 3.2 on 7-inch 1.2GHz dual-core
Android 3.2 Honeycomb update in “next few weeks”; Huawei MediaPad tipped for August

Smartphones:
Motorola TRIUMPH Pre-Orders Start Today At Best Buy For $299
Motorola Droid 3 To Arrive At Best Buy July 13?
Motorola Droid Bionic Still On Schedule
LG Thrill 4G For AT&T Officially Unveiled
T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide caught in wild ahead of July 6 release

Apple:
Apple Final Cut Pro X released
Apple Final Cut Pro X To Get Updates Every Six Months
Samsung denied early iPad 3/iPhone 5 access but Apple sales injunction hopes fade
Apple files patent infringement suit against Samsung in South Korea
Apple granted iPhone multitouch patent: Lawyers prepare for action
iOS 5 Beta 2 Now Available To Developers
Mac OS X v 10.6.8 update now available
New AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule details emerge, launch imminent
Apple Time Capsule gets 3TB storage boost [Ouch: $499!]
Apple AirPort Extreme gets tiny blip of an update
Mac Pro and Mac Mini August refresh tipped: Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt and Lion
iPhone 5 to be an August game-changer?

Hands-on/Reviews:
LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt hands-on [Video]
HTC EVO View 4G Review
Windows Phone 7.1 Mango Technical Preview

A beefier camera had been suspected from the start, with Nokia coyly saying that the N950 was “capable of” the same resolution shots as the N9 but leaving wiggle room for something higher-resolution. Other differences include a slightly larger display using an LCD TFT panel rather than the N9′s AMOLED Clear Black display. The N950 obviously has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, too, whereas the N9 is one solid, “pillowy” block of polycarbonate and Gorilla Glass.

The non-user-accessible BL-4D battery – confirmed by the teardown shots – is lower capacity than the N9, at 1,320 mAh, but then again Nokia doesn’t really intend the N950 to be anybody’s daily device: it’s a developer handset, after all. The first units started arriving with coders late last week.

[via MyNokiaBlog]

Bambuser already offers a version of their streaming video app for Maemo 5 (as well as Android, iOS, bada, various Symbian releases and Windows Mobile) and that existing focus looks to have earned them the N950 on this occasion. Nokia has previously confirmed that the N950 will be distributed by invitation-only, rather than put up for general sale. The handset will be supplied with no warranty and no service support.

Specification-wise, the N950 has a 4-inch TFT LCD display rather than the Nokia N9‘s 3.9-inch AMOLED panel, and of course adds in a physical QWERTY keyboard rather than being all-touch. More on the specs – and differences – here. As for the N9, that’s expected to go on sale to consumers in Sweden on September 23; availability elsewhere is yet to be confirmed.

[Thanks Steve!]

Alien Dalvik allows app stores and developers to simply repackage the Android .apk installation files and then have those apps run on MeeGo hardware like the N9. Hardware capabilities of the device are accessible to the original Android app, and any more complex integrations can be tweaked to suit using the Android SDK plugin Myriad offers.

It’s not the first time we’ve heard about cross-platform Android app support, of course; RIM announced earlier this year that the BlackBerry PlayBook would support Android software later in the year. Our first impressions of the Nokia N9 were very positive, and we can’t help but imagine Android apps on the sturdy Finnish hardware would be a compelling combination.

According to Myriad, Alien Dalvik will be commercially available for MeeGo sometime this year. The company announced last month that it was in talks with car companies to use the system on vehicle computers, an area MeeGo is already targeting, with BMW, GM, Hyundai, Renault, Delphi and Peugeot-Citroen all signed up to use the platform in future vehicles.

Compared to the N9, the N950 has a TFT LCD display rather than AMOLED and is obviously thicker to accommodate the keyboard mechanism; there are some other hardware differences which we detailed yesterday. Software-wise, there’s a Terminal mode and some other tweaks to suit developers looking to get their apps ready for MeeGo.

We’re particularly impressed by how well the N950′s display holds its own in comparison to the excellent Clear Black panels on the N9: viewing angles and colors are surprisingly strong. Previous leaks suggested that the N9 would launch with a physical keyboard as well, but that operators expressed concerns with the strength of the hinge. Notably, Nokia is warning developers that the N950 is offered with no warranty and no service support.

For more on the Nokia N9, check out our hands-on with the smartphone.

[via Twitter]

Meanwhile, “a developers’ edition of the phone” – which sounds to us a lot like the Nokia N950 – is supposedly even closer to release, with Nokia tipped to be handing out handsets straight away. The N950 takes most of the N9′s specs, pairs them with a slightly bigger 4-inch touchscreen and a physical QWERTY keyboard, and slots them inside an aluminum slide-and-tilt chassis rather than the consumer device’s polycarbonate.

Still unclear is pricing for the N9, though Forbes warns that it’s not likely to be cheap and the specs would certainly support that prediction. Select MeeGo developers will be in line for a free N950 courtesy of Nokia, though how exactly you get onto that coveted list remains to be seen.

Nokia N9 live demo:

Unlike the N9 there’s an aluminum chassis rather than polycarbonate, and NFC is missing. There’s also a 1320 mAh battery, smaller than the N9′s 1,450 mAh. The camera also comes in at 8-megapixels, but is apparently a different unit to the consumer-focused device (though of “very similar image quality”). The N950 gets Bluetooth 2.1 whereas the N9 supports Bluetooth 4.0, and has a “slightly more sensitive” digital compass and ALS.

Although the temptation of QWERTY will be hard for many to avoid, Nokia is pretty resolute that the N950 is a developer device and not intended to be an everyday phone. Construction will be of “beta quality” according to the specs, and there will be no warranty or support to fall back on. This is definitely one for the developers to cook up MeeGo apps on, rather than for you to carry in your pocket.

No word on pricing or availability at this stage.

Update: Photo of the final developer edition handset above courtesy of Brendan Arndt.

[via My Nokia Blog - thanks Andy!]