Nokia N900 – Not just a phone

Hello Guys,

Recently I got a chance to trial the Nokia N900 from womworld, & I want to express big thanks to whole entire team for giving me a chance to understand & know the new OS as well as UI other than Symbian OS. N900 is one of the best of the best mobile computer by Nokia comes with full mobile computing & lots of features that every mobile geek needs. The Maemo 5 OS based on Debain Linux distribution, & lots of features included Nokia N900 definitely have a wow factor. It makes a different experience than mobile OS, feels like operating mini laptop.

Nokia N900 runs on pretty fast ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz processor paired 256mb total amount of RAM & 32GB of internal memory is just like a big wallet for keeping series of music albums/tracks, videos/movie clips, documents etc.

I was really impressed with handsome build quality, awesome QWERTY keypad & the 5mp camera nicely captured decent 2576×1936 pixels snaps, recorded movie up to 25 frames per second & dual flash made much better snaps.

The speed & ease of use of Nokia N900’s QWERTY keypad was quite fast than the on-screen QWERTY keyboard of my 5800XM & makes messaging too easy & faster than before.

Watching movies & listening music was quite enjoyable although the speakers didn’t impressed me but I liked the arrangement of the speakers like Nokia N95. They were placed correctly & makes sense of surround sound effect. I hope Nokia N97 & Nokia 5800XM would have same type of placement of speakers instead of placing both speakers at same side.

Touch response was quite responsive, definitely better than Nokia N97 & Nokia 5800XM. And four customizable home-screens, widget, shortcut, & bookmark support just rocks, & feels so cool having them randomly.

Playing games on Nokia N900 was more than fun & never tired of playing games at free time I had.

Surfing internet was much better, faster than on my 5800XM, & too impressed with that web browser btw.

N900 has perfect application manager. The best I liked about the application manager update notification for the installed apps.

I wish those unhappy Nokia users should try Nokia N900 & I hope Nokia makes more prefect mobile computers like Nokia N900 in future.

NOKIA N900 AT GLANCE

OS: Linux based Maemo 5.

Network: GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 Mhz & HSPDA 900, 1700, 2100 Mhz.

Form Factor: Full Touch Bar with Slider QWERTY keypad.

Dimension: 110.9×59.8×18 mm, 181 gms in weight.

Display: 3.5 inches TFT resistive Touchscreen with 65k colors & 800×480 px in resolution.

Processor: ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz.

Memory: 32GB on-board memory, 256MB of RAM.

Camera: 5mp Carl Zeiss Optics with dual LED flash.

Connectivity: WiFi- 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1, Infrared, microUSB 2.0, 3.5mm Audio Jack, FM Transmitter.

Battery: BL-5J Standard Li-Ion 1320 mAh Battery.

Main Features: Proximity sensor, Accelerometer sensor, A-GPS support, Skype & GoogleTalk VoIP integration, TV-out.

THINGS I LIKE MOST ON NOKIA N900

OS: Really so cute & perfect OS.

Browser: That browser on Nokia N900 is awesome.

VoIP: VoIP integration.

TV-Out: Better & HQ than my 5800XM.

Speed: Much fast than S60. May be its due to good processor & RAM, also depends on OS.

Keypad: The most thing I like on N900 is perfect keypad.

Speakers: Speaker placement is nice & is better than 5800XM, N97.

Memory: Although there is microSD Card slot supported upto 16GB but 32GB is really enough for me to carry favorite movies, clips & songs.

Emai: Email application has wow factor, really a nice thing on Nokia N900.

Homescreen: Multiple home-screens, widget, shortcut & bookmark feature I liked it a lot.

MISSED A LOT ON NOKIA N900

Speakers: Louder speakers please, at least like Xpress Music handsets have.

Portrait Mode: Not so important but that would be awesome.

PC Suite: Must be fully supported.

Ovi Suite: Must be supported.

Gravity: The most I missed. Oh, c’mon Jan Ole you can do it.

RADIO: Didn’t find Radio although Internet Radio is there.

MMS: Multimedia Messaging is really required.

TO THE POINT

Lets come to the point, Nokia N900 is a good phone everybody knows it. It has great features & awesome OS. The main reason I trialed Nokia N900 is to taste new OS, & do some contents for it. The result is yes, I can do some contents for Nokia N900 i.e. panoramic backgrounds & themes. Panoramic backgrounds can be done without any issue but themes have minor issues on making Debian package. Anyway its not a big issue for me, soon I will start sharing some themes for Nokia N900.

After trialing Nokia N900 I’m just infected by Maemo OS, probably there will be Maemo based phone with me in future for sure.