Nokia N900 Available at end of October for €500

Posted on 27 August 2009, at 9:30 am, by Joel McLaughlin

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I’ve long been a fan of the Nokia N Series Maemo tablets. Now Nokia has done it again with the new N900, and it is finally a phone as well! The N900 has 32 GB of internal storage with a microSD slot. It also has GPS/A-GPS, FM transmitter, TV-out, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi, 1320mAh battery, and a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash. It will have 1 GB of RAM for running applications on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor, and it will support OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. The N900 will be running the new Maemo 5 Linux based OS that has worked well on the previous devices, and it will support the 1700 MHz band – which means those who are on T-Mobile can get 3G connectivity here in the US. This has been what Maemo fans have been asking for a long time!

The N900 will be displayed in Nokia World, Stuttgart,Germany on September 2 for those who can make it.

Pricing is around €500 unsubsidized, which brings it around $700. No word on when US carriers will pick it up, but I certainly hope they do.

From: jkOnTheRun, Engadget and Nokia.

Tags | Joel McLaughlin, Linux, Mobile Phones, Nokia

6 Comments For This Post

Carly Z Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
According to Ed Hardy from Brighthand, Nokia says this does VOIP but it’s NOT a phone.

Bah…this got a lot less interesting. Sad.

http://www.brighthand.com/defa.....N900+Maemo
Joel McLaughlin Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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If it isn’t a phone, then what is this?

http://maemo.nokia.com/features/phone/

Also, if it has VoIP it IS a phone….it’s just not using GSM or CDMA voice networks.

Personally, VoIP is GOING to be the way calls will be made most of the time very soon. It’s flexible in that I can take the call anywhere in the world and not need a cell network. I canbe using Roadrunner at home one minute and the next using the wifi at the coffee shoppe and in between using 3G. With a phone like the N900, I can do anything a regular cell phone can but not be dependent on using a specific network.

In the future, GSM and CDMA phone networks will just morph to treat everything the same….as DATA. That includes your voice calls using VoIP.
Carly Z Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Ok, now I’m totally confused…there was a big debate on Brighthand’s forums about whether it was a phone, and Ed Hardy said that Nokia’s PR people are saying it CAN use VOIP but that’s dependent on the carrier.

Which is kind of misleading if they’re advertising it with a phone.

I agree that VOIP is the way of the future, but if the carriers who are subsidizing this have the ability to roadblock it then it makes me wonder what niche it fits in.

Or Nokia’s PR people are wildly misinformed.

Something is definitely up!
Joel McLaughlin Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
VoIP is going to take over….whether the carries want it to or not!

PLUS….since this phone runs Linux, I bet that you can probably make a regular cell call on it as well.

I really want this to be in the US! BAD!
Carly Z Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
It is awfully shiny and new…I just hope Nokia’s got a whole line around Maemo planned out. It looks so much better than Symbian (which has been really showing its “drunk monkey” roots lately.)
Joel McLaughlin Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Totally. Symbian looks like….CRAP. Maemo is oh so pretty.