After the months of speculation, finally nokia announced that, N900 the latest Nokia TouchScreen PDA will be running on Maemo5, an open source operating system designed by maemo.org
This phone can be considered as a potential I-phone killer product, except the thickness of device reportedly 18mm, against I-phone 12.5mm. This thickness is due to QWERTY keyboard, which makes this device a step more towards PDA, rather than entertainment smart phone. The size of N900 is 110 x 59mm, which accommodates 3.5 inches screen, supported by 800 x 480 pixel of resolution.
Other specifications are
OS: Maemo 5
Camera: 5-megapixel, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light, geo-tagging; WVGA (848x480 pixels) at 25fps
Storage: 32GB, expandable up to 48GB via microSD
CPU: ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics; 256MB RAM
Connectivity: 3G, Wi-Fi, EDGE, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, microUSB
GPS: GPS with A-GPS support, Ovi Maps
Others: Physical Qwerty keyboard, 3.5mm audio jack, Stereo FM radio, document viewer, multimedia player, digital compass
Officially Nokia will likely unveil this gadget at coming Maemo summit in Amsterdam.
Cost is still the unknown factor, but its indeed a premium level gadget.
1 comments