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Nokia N900 Review

The new Nokia N900 is the latest internet tablet launched by Nokia and is a mobile computer which brings together the power of the computer, the mobile phone and the Internet. Codenamed as Rover, the Nokia N900 is based on Maemo5, a Linux platform which is an open-source platform made possible by the GNOME project. For the first time, Nokia has brought into your pockets, a technology that has been used for desktop computers.

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.