The newest supplement to the Nokia family is the first apparatus running Maemo 5, a new OS that takes the best of Nokia’s internet tablet variety and stuffs it into a phone-sized chassis. Featuring a gigantic 3.5-inch computer display and full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it’s furthermore cramming a gravely powerful motor under the hood to power things along. Will the N900 lost the aged likeness of Symbian and convey Nokia to the next grade to agree the likes of the iPhone. The first thing you observe about the N900 is its size. It’s absolutely hefty at 110.9 x 59.8 x 18mm, and the heaviness of 181g means it’s not going to win any slimming competitions either. But it’s worth pointing out that Nokia hasn’t one time said that the N900 is a telephone, a successor to the N97 or any thing along those lines – it sees it as super-charged internet tablet with telephone capabilities, other than the other way around.

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Key features

  • 3.5″ 16M-color resistive touchscreen of WVGA (800 x 480 pixel) resolution
  • Maemo 5 OS
  • State-of-the-art Mozilla-based web browser with Adobe Flash 9.4 support
  • Slide-out three-row full QWERTY keyboard
  • ARM Cortex A8 600MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX graphics accelerator; 256 MB of RAM
  • Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support
  • 5 MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and active camera lens cover
  • WVGA (848 x 480 pixels) video recording @ 24fps
  • 10 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support
  • Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS
  • 32GB onboard storage
  • DivX and XviD video playback
  • Foldable kickstand
  • microSD card slot with microSDHC support
  • Built-in accelerometer
  • Proximity sensor
  • 3.5 mm audio jack and TV-out
  • FM Radio receiver, FM transmitter
  • microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
  • Solid audio quality
  • Kinetic scrolling
  • Contacts integration of Skype, Google Talk and other VoIP services
  • Great build quality

Main disadvantages

  • Large and heavy
  • UI only works in landscape mode (for now)
  • No smart and voice dialing
  • Outdated camera interface and features
  • No preinstalled voice-guided SatNav application
  • No voice recorder, no MMS, and no handwriting recognition
  • No FM radio application (despite that the hardware’s there)
  • Limited third-party software availabilty

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