Review of Nokia N900 Unlocked Smart phone with 3G and based on Maemo Platform

Summary: The nokia n900 is a brilliant phone. One of the best smart phones ever made by nokia. Nokia’s first smart phone that can actually put up a fight against the iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, and the dozen other competitors that Nokia’s fallen behind with Linux-based Maemo 5 OS gives true desktop-like experience. The shape is simply too good and very attractive. Applications of this smart phone are user-friendly and as this model is modeled by nokia its trustworthy.

Specifications and features:

Display

· 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display

· 800 × 480 pixel resolution

Language support

British English, American English, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian

Connectivity

· 3.5mm AV connector

· TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable

· Micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0

· Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets

· Integrated FM transmitter

· Integrated GPS with A-GPS

Battery

BL-5J 1320mAh

Processor and 3D accelerator

TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Memory

Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)

Size and weight

Volume:

Approx 113cc

Dimensions:

110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm

Weight:

Approx 181g

Mass memory

· 32 GB internal storage

· Store up to 7000 MP3 songs or 40 hours of high-quality video

· Up to 16 GB of additional storage with an external microSD card

Keys and input method

· Full QWERTY tactile keyboard

· Full QWERTY onscreen keyboard

Colour

Black

Operating frequency

· Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

· WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz

Data network

GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL) EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL) WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL) HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL) WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g

Call features

· Integrated hands-free stereo speakers

· Call waiting, call hold, call divert

· Call timer

· Logging of dialed, received and missed calls

· Speed dialing via contact widget

· Virbrating alert (internal)

· Side volume keys

· Mute/unmute

· Contacts with images

· Conference calling with up to 3 participants

· Internet calling

Email & Messaging

· Supported protocols: Mail for Exchange, IMAP, POP3, SMTP

· Support for email attachments

· Support for rich HTML

· SMS and Instant Messages as conversations

· Support for Nokia Messaging service

· Instant messaging and presence enhanced contacts

· Multiple number, email and Instant Messaging details per contact, contacts with images

· Support for assigning images to contacts

Web browsing

· Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology

· Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support

· Full screen browsing

GPS

· Integrated GPS, Assisted-GPS, and Cell-based receivers

· Pre-loaded Ovi Maps application

· Automatic geotagging

Camera

· 5 megapixel camera (2584 × 1938 pixels)

· Image formats: JPEG

· CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens

· 3 × digital zoom

· Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key

· Dual LED flash

· Full-screen viewfinder

· Photo editor on device

· TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP

· Landscape (horizontal) orientation

· Capture modes: Automatic, portrait, video, macro, landscape, action

Video

· Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)

· Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4

· Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps

· Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263

Music and audio playback

· Maemo media player

· Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a

· Built-in FM transmitter

· Ring tones: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a

· FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR

Personalization

· Background pictures

· Widgets on your desktops

· Intelligent contact shortcuts

· Shortcuts to your favourite websites

· Shortcuts to applications

· Themes

Operating system

Maemo 5 software on Linux

Applications

· Maemo Browser

· Phone

· Conversations

· Contacts

· Camera

· Photos

· Media player

· Email

· Calendar

· Ovi Maps

· Clock

· Notes

· Calculator

· PDF reader

· File manager

· RSS reader

· Sketch

· Games

· Widgets

· Application manager for downloads

Gaming

· Bounce

· Chess

· Mahjong

What´s in the box

· Nokia N900

· Nokia Battery (BL-5J)

· Nokia High Efficiency Charger (AC-10)

· Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-205)

· Video out cable (CA-75U)

· Nokia charger adaptor (CA-146C)

· Cleaning cloth

Overall information with price:

Nokia N900 is officially released at Nokia world on September 2009. It will be available all over the world from October for a price of 500 Euro . So in India the price of N900 would be around the launch price N97, that is 34000 INR