Nokia’s N900, a well-heeled angle on the shaky “mobile internet device” category, shall run Maemo 5, a cut of linux intended for heavy internet use. At 800 pixels wide, the display will better cellphones at showing web-pages, and high-end features abound: there’s a 5 megapixel camera, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Flash compatibility, 32GB of storage, GPS and TV-out. Such a shame it isn’t a cellphone! Update: It is a cellphone! Damn!
Furthermore, at 500 Euros, it’ll have to justify itself as a “netbook replacement” for those not already fond of Nokia’s past lineup of internet tablets.
Product Page [Nokia]
If I’m reading this correctly, it is indeed a cell phone! I mean, there is a phone icon in there, after all. And therefore probably quite worth the cash.
it is a cellphone as well!
See “Call features” and “Operating frequency”:
“yes, now it makes phone calls.”
According to the specs it’s a quad band GSM cellphone with 3G. They’re just not selling it as one.
Oh. Oh, yes.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
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After a summer of overdosing on analysis and finally deciding the Palm Pre wasn’t quite what I wanted, I was all ready to take the iPhone plunge at the end of this month.
Here we go again!
I’d hate to break it to you, but it is a phone. It’s unlocked by default (at the 500€ price point) and gives you full root access.
Heck, even the product page says it’s a phone!
Its a phone! Not a MID, or if you’re to believe Nokia. Its a MID that just happens to have a phone.
I think it’s a phone. And I think it is coming to T-Mobile. And I think I will buy it if the subsidy is adequate.
Looking at the specifications section of the linked web page and reading the subsection labeled “Call features”, it seems pretty clear that the N900 is in all ways also a cellphone.
now its up to us..
This is nothing compared the the great app that yelp has come out with
EASTER EGG: Yelp Is the iPhone’s First Augmented Reality App http://www.trigeia.com/article.php?id=112964
Fusion of Nokia’s swiss-army phones and internet tablets at last (just a couple years late, guys)! Looks secksy; how will it split the dev community viz Android?
The question is, how much better is the UI than it used to be? Maemo on the 770 was the laggiest interface since treacle dried in my Spectrum’s dead-flesh keypad.
@Andygates: Unless they’ve seriously Vista’d Maemo this time around, it should be markedly faster. The 770 had a 250MHz processor, to the 900′s 600MHZ, and the A8 in the 900 should be faster clock for clock, as well as in absolute clock speed. Going from 64 to 256 megs of RAM shouldn’t hurt either.
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