The Nokia N900 is all set to debut in the later part of this year and with its grand launch at the Nokia World Event in Germany, the phone has already started making waves amongst those looking for a better version of the N810 series. The phone will be the first Nokia model to be based on the high-end Ti-OMAP3 Microprocessor and will run on a Linux based OS- thus ensuring that the N900 complies with the best internet telephony standards existent in the market currently. With a price tag of about 500 Euros, the phone is expensive, though it appears to be pretty well priced when compared to the competing models present in the market.

Apart from being an all out internet tablet, the Nokia N900 is a great phone to own. The phone is aesthetically designed, has one of the best touch interfaces in the market (thanks to the Maemo 5 OS) and has some of the most thoughtfully designed applications that gel together really well and give the phone an ultra classy feel. The Cortex core at the heart of the TI-OMAP3 processor adds a lot of zing to the phone. The processor is optimized for hassle free internet access and according to the initial reports; it pretty much succeeds in doing what was expected out of such a high-end internet tablet processor.

Now, if you thought Nokia had focussed their RnD only on internet usage and design aesthetics part- you were wrong! Nokia has gone a step ahead and tried to create an internet tablet capable of delivering the goods in the 3G environment. Combined with its internet browsing capabilities, comes a high-resolution camera, a great music player (which is observably better than the music players you generally associate with Nokia phones) and some great touch screen widgets and add-ons. The camera boasts of a hefty 5 MP resolution, which is enough to kill the best in the industry. The music player (presumably) has been designed keeping only one thing in mind- to beat the iPhone to the core. In fact, the Nokia N900 seems to have borrowed the best features from the best phones in the market, tweaked these features a notch up and clubbed all of these together into a single device. All this translates into great news for those who have been looking for a device that has Blackberry’s internet browsing capabilities, coupled with Sony’s picture taking capabilities and sprinkled with a music player that gives even the iPhone a run for its money. In short, the Nokia N900 is a gadget lover’s epitome of romance!

Unlike other phones from Nokia which operate on the Symbian operating system, the N900 operates on a Linux based operating system named Maemo5, which emphasizes on the statement that the N900 smart phone will behave more like a mobile computer. The decision to switch to Linux as the operating system makes the N900 a potential candidate to give the Google’s Android and the iPhone from Apple a fierce competition.

The N900 is 111 x 59.7 x 18.2 mm in size and weighs 180 grams, decent enough for a smart phone. It has a large touch-sensitive widescreen display of 3.5 inches with an 800 X 480 pixel resolution and a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The N900 has a TI OMAP3430: ARM Cortex- A8 600 MHz PowerVR SGX processor and accelerator with OpenGLES 2.0 support.

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 need 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 user can view all the messages, conversations, chats, and every web window that is open with the press of a single button. In addition to this, all of these can be open simultaneously.

The N900 provides with the facility to stream music from different music blogs with the help of a Flash 9.4 player. It has Wi-Fi and3.5G connectivity that allows you to browse on a 3G network using the HDSPA protocol and you can perform pretty much all of the web tasks by using the browser as it is based on Mozilla technology with an Adobe Flash 9.4 version. It lets you scroll through the browsing history with the help of a finger and even lets you zoom in and zoom out of web pages with the circular motion of the finger.
The N900 Rover has an application memory up to 1GB, out of which 256 MB is the RAM and 768 MB is the virtual memory. It has an internal mass memory of 32 GB which can be extended up to a further 16 GB by the use of an external MicroSD card.

The Nokia N900 is an amazing phone with a 5 mega pixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash using which you can take pictures with high quality and even shoot widescreen videos. Automatic geo-tagging is possible by enabling the GPS which gives information about the location where the image was taken. Images can be tagged and browsed by the help of a tag cloud. An all-in-one address book can be used to merge contacts from your phone book, Skype and others.

The Nokia N900 is a high performance mobile computer which is worth its quoted price of about $750. As the availability of software and applications for the operating systems used by Apple and Google for their phones was one of their major trump cards, Nokia will have to fare similarly or even better in this regard if it wants the N900 to be a successful product.

Here are some of the features at a glance:

• Dimensions: 59.7mmx111mmx18.2mm
• Weight: 180g
• 3.5″ 800×480 (WVGA) touchscreen
• OMAP3430 500/600 Mhz processor
• Bands: GSM Quad-Band 850, 900, 1800, 1900. WCDMA 900, 1700/2100, 2100
• 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with dual-LED flash, autofocus, and sliding cover
• Though the renders we’ve seen show two lens-like circles near the screen, we’ve got no word on what’s behind them. However, we feel safe in assuming that its a proximity sensor and a front-facing camera.
• 1GB total virtual runtime memory (256MB physical RAM, 768MB virtual memory)
• Wi-Fi, HSDPA, GPS
• 32GB internal storage, expandable up to 48GB via external memory
• Keyboard variants: English, Scandinavian, French, German, South European, Italian, Russia
• Package Contents: Connectivity cable, headset, charger, battery (1320 mAh), Video-out cable, microUSB adaptor, cleaning cloth

Users can even keep multiple IM and SMS conversations going and move easily between them.The N900 can also take photos and widescreen videos using the 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. Other notable features include a 3.5in touch-sensitive screen, 32GB of on-board storage, a web browser powered by Mozilla technology, integrated GPS with A-GPS and WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g with UPnP support.