Nokia’s N900 gets its marching orders
Nokia smartphone loyalists that feel S60 is a bit long in the tooth and are looking for something new should be all smiles today, as earlier Nokia announced that the Maemo 5-powered N900 smartphone has begun shipping out after a series of delays. To officially retail for around 500€ ($749 USD), the N900 has been spotted on various US-based websites for well under $600. And that’s a darn good deal, too, because you’re not going to find many phones at that price that offer up the following:
- Maemo 5 OS
- 3.5-inch WVGA (800 x 480) resistive touchscreen display
- 110.9 × 59.8 × 18mm, 181g
- Portrait-orientation sliding QWERTY
- Mozilla-based browser, full Adobe Flash support
- ARM cortex A8 processor
- 32GB internal memory
- 5.0 MP Carl Zeiss camera with dual-LED flash, auto-focus and sliding cover
- MicroSDHC support up to 16GB
- FM transmitter
- Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA 900/1700/2100, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP
- GPS
- 1320 mAh battery
One word of caution: as it currently stands, the N900 will not play nice with the new SIMs from 3 in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Austria, although a software update to resolve this comparability issue is due out before the end of the year. A launch video from Nokia is lying in wait after the jump.
I don’t know if it will compete with the iPhone the current “Benz” of the industry. but it looks sharp but way too expensive here, you can get too iphones for that price…
Seinfeld’s take on the iphone and blackberry’s is the funniest and best http://macspotlight.blogspot.com/2009/11/seinfeld-says-why-he-doesnt-like.html
750$
What the crack are you smoking?
Go look at newegg or amazon
Where is Zach when you need him?
@iphonegs Iphone 3GS with 32GB cost 800 bucks, unlock
Shouldn’t that read “Landscape-orientation sliding QWERTY”?
None of the phone features even work in portrait except the phone dialer, as far as I can tell from the Maemo website.
Iphone is for lazy people who are blinded by apple as to what a real phone should be.n900 is the real deal though the droid is close