The Nokia N900 is a portable internet gadget and smart phone, from Nokia based on the maemo platform, superseding the N810(As Nokia N800 and Nokia N810 were criticized about the big sizes, it seems the N900 will be a bit smaller, just like iPhone, with a 3.5″ screen). It runs maemo Linux 5 as its default OS and is the first Nokia mobile based upon the TI OMAP3 microprocessor. The Nokia N900 is the first Maemo gadget to include mobile functionality (GSM and 3G) unlike the internet tablets. It functions as a 5 MP cam, the music and video player, and a portable internet tool with mailing and web browsing resource. Stay online anywhere in worl with cellular connectivity over HSPA for broadband and you can do photo sharing with hi-def cam - imaging and photo-sharing. When it comes to storage capacity, Nokia may have 16GB home storage capacity, as well as a mini SDHC slot to proffer it to your wants.

Nokia Maemo platform:

Maemo is a higher Linux-based mobile OS designed to run on high-end cell computers. Maemo is an open platform that runs on open devices. It has Linux at its core, but Maemo also has heaps of other software components maintained by communities of open-source developers. The platform is based on well-known technologies that are generally used in the free software commune. Best of all, you can benefit from the work has done by other developers as quickly as you take your Maemo device out of the box. Being an open-source platform, it enables the community to freely to modulate and continuously develop software to give added meaning to all Maemo users.

Detailing mechanism description:

The Nokia N900 brings the strength of notebook to mobile device. It's a high performance portable notebook mobile with superior Maemo 5 software on Linux. Explore Nokia N900 features like multitasking on a live Dashboard, wide screen video capture, 3,5" WVGA touch screen (800 x 480 pixels), QWERTY keypad and private sable panorama desktop. The Nokia N900 also features 1 GB of application memory and up to 48GB of storage. Maemo browser is powered by Mozilla Technology and includes Adobe Flash 9.4 and full AJAX support. Wi-Fi and 3.5G connectivity provides abstain access to Internet. Capture high quality photos and wide display videos using 5Mpix camera with Carl Zeiss optics. Tag photos and browse them using the tag cloud, and see where images were taken with the automated geo-tagging. Merge your phone book, Skype contacts and other contacts into an all-in-one address book. And genuinely, N900 has a mobile application for voice calls.

Availability and worth:

The Nokia N900 was launched in markets from October 2009 with an estimated retail worth of EUR 500 in UK market without sales taxes and subsidies. The Nokia N900 will be displayed at Nokia World, Stuttgart, on September 2.

Review:

Unlike other mobiles from Nokia which work on the Symbian OS, the N900 operates on a Linux based OS named Maemo 5, which emphasizes on the statement that the N900 smart phone will work more like a mobile laptop. The descision to switch to Linux as the OS makes the N900 a potential contender to give the Google's Android and the iPhone from Apple a fierce competition. The widescreen is more like the desktop of your home computer. Also, there can be multiple desktops called the panoramic desktop which lets you have your widgets, daily schedules, and shortcuts to applications that you necessity at one single place. The access to these multiple desktops is made possible by the Dashboard, which is more of a live task switcher. This means that the customer can view 1all the messages, conversations, chats, and every web space that is open with the press of a release button. Besides this, all these can be open simultaneously.