Nokia n900
By Dave Adamson in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Soooo, it’s nearly that time again. Well, three months really. My phone contract with o2 is up for renewal and it seems that, despite veiled suggestions to the contrary, o2 probably won’t be stocking the Nokia N97 in time for my renewal date, leaving me with the choice of sticking with o2 or shifting network just to get a swanky piece of kit that I’m pretty sure will get better and better with each firmware upgrade.
However, something happened this week that really piqued my curiosity - the Nokia N900.
The Nokia N900 is the latest in the line of Nokia’s Internet tablets, except this one is also… a phone!
Running Maemo 5, a Linux based OS that has been the mainstay of Nokia’s range of Internet tablets, with a bit of a community following, it has a 3.5″ resistive touchscreen, 32GB of storage, memory card slot, 3G, GPS/A-GPS and, fully-featured web browsing (in other words, it supports Flash) and will do all the usual things that phones do. It also has a 5MP camera built in.
By all accounts, it’s a pretty swish affair and heralds a departure from the Symbian OS, the flagship OS that has appeared on a range of N-series devices. Symbian OS is a decent enough operating system as a niche OS; I like it, really like it. Even when it locks up and resets, I forgive it, however it it has really suffered over the past few years with competition from Apple OS for iPhone and, to a lesser extent, Google Android.
I’m going to suggest that Nokia is testing the waters with the use of Maemo. They know it’s a robust system and there’s a number of applications that have been ported to it from fully-fledged Linux OS. By making Maemo extensible, Nokia could be onto a real winner in the smartphone category - a smartphone that neatly marries the abilities of a phone, with the potential of a media device and the accessibility of a netbook.
Is it likely to dislodge the iPhone? Only time will tell.
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Comment by Buster - August 30, 2009 on 8:24 pm
O2 might stock the Nokia N97 Mini - perhaps that will be an option? Or maybe the Palm Pre which is exclusive to O2.
Buster
Comment by Sharon - September 15, 2009 on 3:07 pm
Being the owner of the N800 I must say I am very interested in what N900 will offer. I alwys liked my N800 but with only wi-fi (and there’s not much free wi-fi round me) I was pretty limited when I took it out and about. If the N900 has 3g and the great community of developers keep up their excellent work then this could really be a phone to contend with.
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