It's been a long time coming but Nokia's finally veered away (for one time, at least) from rocking Symbian OS on their phones. The Nokia N900 just became official and it will be running with the new Maemo 5.
Set to become the company's new flagship device, the N900 boasts a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 256MB of RAM and a PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support, essentially giving it the same guts as the iPhone 3GS. All that power is put to good use with the Linux-based operating system, which comes with Palm Pre-like multi-tasking capabilities and up to 768MB of virtual memory (bringing the effective RAM total to 1GB).
The phone comes with a side-sliding QWERTY keypad, 110.9 × 59.8 × 18mm dimensions and a weight of 181 grams. Connectivity set consists of quad-band GSM, tri-band WCDMA, Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth and USB. Hardware details include a 3.5-inch touchscreen display (800 x 480 resolution), a 5.0 megapixel camera (with autofocus and Carl Zeiss lens), 32GB of onboard storage, 1320mAh battery and microSDHC card expansion (up to 16GB). It naturally comes with a rich feature set, including a highly-capable media player (including XviD and DivX support, with unconverted video playback), aGPS, an FM tuner, a Mozilla-based full HTML browser with support for Flash 9.4 and TV-out.
On paper, the Nokia N900 appears poised to be one of the most solid smartphone efforts of the year. Whether it ends up becoming formidable competition in the high-end smartphone market, however, will depend largely on how the Maemo actually performs, relative to the phone's hardware suite. It's scheduled for release in October, at an estimated retail price of 500 Euros (around $720), before taxes and subsidies.
Its a bit surprising to see Nokia not going for Symbian, that too on their high end phone. I would really like to see how Maemo performs on the great hardware.
This looks to be a great phone. Finally Nokia puts in something other than Symbian. I hope the OS really performs well so we could see more phones based on this platform from Nokia.
[...] although the price has not been revealed. At just a €50 difference from the pretty amazing N900, though, it sounds like a bit of a tough [...]
I can’t wait for N900. I sure hope it lives up to the hype.
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nokia n900 is great and u can say it is a king among mobile
world. nice hone
The phone is amazing. Touch response and all very good. and Ovi is superb it will give what we want. camera and all very good.
I really liked it..
Thanks to nokia..