The Nokia N900 is Nokia’s first Maemo-powered mobile phones that promises to deliver raw speed and power of a computer into a mobile phone. This has been made able by concocting a Debian-Linux based OS, ARM Cortex - A8 superscalar microprocessor core running at 600 MHz, 1 GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory) and 3D graphics accelerator with OpenGL ES 2.0 support in a device that promises to be almost what the computer has to offer.
The phone itself looked great! With the previous versions looked more tablety, this one looks more like phone without compensating its large sensitive-touch screen at 3.5-inch, 800×480 pixels resolution. The volume of the Nokia N900 is approximately 113cc with a dimension of 110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm, weighting around 181g. It has both tactile and also on-screen QWERTY keyboard so that settles the physical vs virtual keyboard debate.
I don’t think I need to elaborate that it runs on major network and also, yes, 3G HSUPA to cater the business / social network needs.
Entertainment
The first thing that we can notice through its spec is it is designed to be a perfect entertainment tool. To start with, the screen caters WVGA wide aspect ratio (16:9). This is perfect to play DVD movies without it being cropped or stretch, which can be played in any format you choose (mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263). To equal its video prowess, the sound also supports various formats (.wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a) You can use aemo media player to play all these media. How are you going to store all these? Don’t worry as it has a massive 32GB internal memory (expandable up to 48GB) which can store around 40 hours of DVD quality movies and 7,000 songs though I doubt that the battery, or your eyes can lasts that long. If you’re bored with 7,000 songs, there is always the FM transmitter to tune in to your favourite channel.
High Quality Camera
Another thing that attracts me is the camera. The Nokia N900 offers a massive 5 Mega-pixel camera with Carl-Zeiss optical lens and dual LED which enables you take great pictures at a high quality, day or night. It even lets you have 800 x 480 pixel video recording quality. There are some preset modes to help you get the right moment at the right condition too, just like your compact digital camera - automatic, video, macro, landscape, action. Once you’ve finished taken the picture you wanted, geo-tag them with A-GPS function that is also available - another way a GPS can help plus Ovi Maps to give you the quickest available route as you make your way from A to B.
Web Browsing
A close to the computer browsing experience is also made available through world famous Firefox browser powered by Mozilla. The Nokia N900 also supported Flash Player 9.4 and also allows full screen browsing. Using wi-fi will not cause slow browsing with data transfers over Wi-Fi at 54Mbps.
Conclusion
The Nokia N900 are created to handle mammoth tasks, just like a computer. The combination of ARM processor running on Debian Linux can ensure that the speed of N900 and minimal almost unnoticeable lags. Full screen browsing, high quality media playback, big storage, great looking phone, superb display, good UI, and oh! you can do all this as it has multitasks capabilities through a smooth desktop control plus a 3.5mm jack and also a TV out! What else can you ask for? It’s the dream mobile device.
However, don’t get excited just yet. The Nokia N900 will only be launched at “selected markets” first, before they decided to take it to the whole world selling at around €500, or about USD$700. So, till then, we can only drool at the possibility that a dream phone will arrive on our shores one of these days - and save up some money while doing that.
