Imagine a cellphone screen with real desktop usability. The Nokia N900 is a mobile phone-cum-Internet Tablet and looks like the chunkier cousin of the N97. Features include a 3.5-inch (800×480) touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, HSDPA, 32GB onboard, microSD card slot supporting up to 48GB, 5 MP Carl Zeiss camera… all for the price of 500 euros before subsidy. The most attractive feature is the “PC-like experience on a handset-sized device” that Nokia was able to achieve with an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 1GB of RAM and the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration.
[via engadget] more videos, including a Maemo preview, after the break.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Awesome smartphone tablet.
A few corrections, though:
cost is 500 euros, not dollars (roughly $718.50);
microSDHC supports 16GB (making the TOTAL 48GB, not additional 48GB);
has 1 GB of APPLICATION MEMORY (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory).
Everything else seems right…here is the official site:
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
August 28th, 2009 at 1:24 am
THIS IS NOT A IPHONE KILLER!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS A IPHONE DESTROYER
Perfect Specs Most people will complain about the resistive screen but screw those people
you Iphone users are peeing in you pants
First The Pre now This!
Steve Jobs do something! GNR
August 28th, 2009 at 9:53 am
“real desktop usability”? With a 3.5″ display? That’s nonsense. The flashy video shows an imaginary huge screen. The actual device has a tiny display (ala iPhone). It will run dumbed-down apps. The iPhone has shown that dumbed-down apps can be very useful — but certainly not as useful as full-scale desktop or full-scale Web-based apps on a laptop — which is why we all still use computers for our “real desktop” work. Get your hands on this and you’ll see. It is not even close to a destkop user experience.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Looks ok … but I’m fed up with the hype of these type of people … “Real desktop usability” my ass.
There is little new here in terms of interface that I cannot pick up as a 3rd party app somewhere (I’m not an iphone user).
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