Vodafone UK has officially announced that they will begin selling the Nokia N900 in January 2010. The Nokia N900 is a high performance mobile computer with advanced Maemo 5 software based on Linux. With features like multitasking on a live Dashboard, wide screen video capture, 3.5″ WVGA touch display (800 x 480 pixels), QWERTY keyboard and customisable panoramic desktop, the Nokia N900 also features 1 GB of application memory and up to 48GB of storage.
With some delay the Nokia N900 is finally available in the first countries like in Austria and the United States. Further countries will follow in due course. The N900 is priced at USD649.
Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered mobile computer. With the Linux-based Maemo platform and with multiple ways to connect to the Internet, the Nokia N900 enables users to be online as it happens with a powerful computer in the palm of their hands. Read the rest of this entry »
Check out this great walkthrought by Dan Lane from The Really Mobile Project who takes a look at some of the VoIP calling features built-in to the Nokia N900.
Here’s a quick demo of the video playback on the Nokia N900 courtesy of UberGizmo. Although the video is overstretched, you can still see how crisp the video is actually displayed, very nice indeed.
Nokia kicked off a new and funny advertising campaign called ”Offline as it happens” for the Nokia N900. In two videos you see what you can miss when being offline. The Nokia N900 is a internet-monster that gives you the full internet experience. So, don’t be offline…be online! Read the rest of this entry »
The Mozilla based Maemo 5 browser is the only mobile browser to handle flash in a desktop fashion. And the recently announced Google Wave is probably the complete neo-communication platform. Combine the two together and you have just entered a tech geeks wet dream, the convergence will allow great things in terms of productivity and social networking, and will enable the world to connect in a way never before thought possible. The release of a standalone application by Google would not even be necessary. Certain aspects of the software can be optimized in order to make this work seamlessly. The N900 software is still in pre-production stages, so watch this space. Check out the video after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Heres a short video sample recorded with the Maemo 5 based Nokia N900. Note that the clip was recorded using a pre-released unit and so quality offered by commercial units may be considerably better.
Mark Guim of The Nokia Blog has put together a very comprehensive review of emailing with the Nokia N900. Email is a very important feature and it works pretty well on the Nokia N900… for the most part. Mark takes a look at the pre-production Nokia N900 from setup, to reading the inbox, replying, and creating emails. Check out the video tutorial after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Maemo brings the power of computers to mobile devices. Designed with the internet at its core, Linux-based Maemo software takes us into a new era of mobile computing. Maemo is available on the Nokia N900 - a high-performance mobile computer with a powerful processor, large internal storage, and sharp touch-screen display.
