„We have already announced “mobile-like” computers and it turned out that it were a bit early, but this time we are confident in what we are talking about – Nokia N900 really is a computer placed in the body of a mobile phone. Ok, a little “larger” body, but due to the characteristics, we will forgive him a few millimeters and grams of surplus.“

Nokia N900 certainly cannot be appointed as a cell phone, and it’s not enough to say it were only a smartphone – in fact it a internet-tablet with added ability of telephony.

It works on the operating system called Maemo 5, based on Linux, which allows multitasking, ie easily handling with multiple active applications, and also supports Flash. Of course, I has an powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor that work at 600 MHz (also used in the iPhone 3GS), 256 MB of physical RAM and graphics hardware acceleration, which enables the PowerVR SGX GPU.

Well, enough of hardware and confusing acronyms, let’s go to the possibilities of this “machine”. First of all, there is a connectivity, which will provide at any time Wi-Fi, HSDPA, GPRS and EGDE. So, surfing at any time you want, at an very fine 3.5 inch diagonal wide touchscreen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

Surfing, by the way. The web browser is built on Mozillas technology which enables the displaying of web pages as well as on a computer, with easy zooming and scrolling through the screen.

With many applications, 5MP camera with video recording resolution of 848 x 480 pixels, reproduction of audio and video formats of all kinds, Office document viewer, and other goodies, you’ll need enough space which a Nokia N900 does not spare – it offers even 32GB of internal memory, but that’s not all, with a microSD memory card 16GB of data can also be stored, which makes the total of 48GB of space.

Although it has a virtual keyboard, one of the great advantages of N900 is a natural, full QWERTY keyboard separated into three rows, which becomes available by pushing down the lower part of the device.

More info on this device will be available during October, but it should appear on the market at a price of €500 (or $650).

If all will be fine as announced, then we can say if there exists a phone/tablet or whatever worth so much money, it is definitely the Nokia N900.

Characteristics:

Dimensions: 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm, 113 cc

Weight: 181 g

Display type: TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors

Display size: 800 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches (Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, Full QWERTY keyboard)

Card slot: microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB (32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics)

Operating System: Maemo 5

Camera: 5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light, Features Geo-tagging , video WVGA(848 x 480)@25fps, secondary VGA video call camera

Other features:

- HSCSD

- EDGE Class 32

- 3G HSDPA, 10Mbps; HSUPA, 2Mbps

- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA

- Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP

- USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB

- Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Maemo Browser), RSS feeds

- Radio Stereo FM radio; FM transmitter

- GPS, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps

- Java, MIDP 2.1

- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player

- WMV/RealVideo/MP4/AVI/XviD video player

- TV-out

- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)

- Photo editor

- T9

… and much more!

It really sounds nice that Linux is coming to Hi-end mobile phones and gadgets. Let’s see whether it will be more user friendly than Windows Mobile.

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