Nokia has announced the Nokia N900, a Maemo 5 powered device. Maemo 5 is the evolution of Nokia's previous generation of Internet Tablets and aims to occupying the space created by the convergence of mobile phones, laptops and the Internet. The N900 features a horizontal slider design with a three line QWERTY keyboard, a 3.5 inch WVGA (800 x 600) touch screen, ARM Cortex-A8 600 Mhz processor with 256 MB of RAM (and 768 MB of virtual memory), 5.0 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, tri-band WCDMA and WiFi connectivity, integrated A-GPS, 3.5 mm AV connect (audio and TV-out), and 32 GB of flash storage and microSD card slot. The N900 will be available in select markets from October 2009 at a cost of €500 before taxes and subsidies. Read on for further details and comment.
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Hello. May I know, does this device act as a normal GSM phone as well? Based on the specs, it has HSDPA and GSM. But the frequency bands seem strange. 9000/17000?
This looks great in the video, but I'm still waiting for Nokia to get the N97 I bought in June working properly, so I can't really see myself making the same mistake again.
Anyone who wants to pay �500 to Beta test the latest device from Nokia... they are taking on testers from October '09...
So they've finally given it mobile comms?
... so is it just another phone now???
EDIT: So yes, it is... Nokia are basically now launching yet-another phone platform!
wow wow wow! im so happy that i didnt buy n97 c", now i going to have this phone in 2 months!
1700 mhz 3G band is for T-Mobile USA, which offers a really massive hint as to which US network this is headed too.
Await the headlines. N900 is T-Mobile iPhone killer... joking aside this is the first Nokia product to really go toe to toe with the iPhone. They both site in roughly the same space... i.e. mobile computing device that happen to be phones (converged laptop / mobile phone) rather than mobile phones that are also a mobile computing device (N97). The distinction is subtle, but very real.
500 euros sim-free? Jeepers creepers, that's flipping cheap... Why would anyone buy an N97 when they can get an N900 for 100 euros less?
This looks great in the video, but I'm still waiting for Nokia to get the N97 I bought in June working properly, so I can't really see myself making the same mistake again.Anyone who wants to pay €500 to Beta test the latest device from Nokia... they are taking on testers from October '09...
Celios, all devices from all manufacturers are at their worst at their release. It's inevitable that anything which is used by millions of people will have bugs that the testers didn't notice, simply because millions of people using something will always spot more problems than hundreds of workers testing something.
If you want devices to be absolutely perfect on the day they launch... you'll have a long wait.
I like the look of the device. I am wondering whether there will be much software available for the Maemo 5 platform? Would be good with Comes with Music since plenty of space.
At last, something new from Nokia that gets my attention!
i really like the look theyve started takin nokia n series at the moment
obviously there was the n81 style which was around for ages, and now its movin out of that into the n86/n97 (sorta n79) styling
😊
the interaction with the UI as been took to a whole new level.
the dashboard is a great feature, pretty is what the ppl have been screaming for
Rafe I think you need to rename the site, this isn't Symbian, hopefully (unlike the N97) this will live up to the hype, if it does Symbian are going to have to do some work....
@Tzer2, you crack me up!
I don't think anyone expects perfection. But really... out of memory errors, a web browser that crashes 1 time in every 5, missing copy and paste from most of the UI, crashes & lockups when trying to accept an incoming call, GPS accuracy that is on a par with just triangulating your position based on signal strength... I could go on.
The N900 looks interesting, and some people will understand the point of the N97 and N900 and their different approaches, but it will confuse the hell out of most consumers. Given Nokia's recent track record, I would expect it to be riddled with bugs and problems at launch, so I can recommend anyone interested in buying one waits for a few months and checks the forums for information about stability, etc. The reviews seem to miss many of the important shortcomings.
On the subject of reviews... will AAS be 'delaying' the review of the N900 if it also launches with sub-standard firmware? 🙄
Ratkat wrote:Rafe I think you need to rename the site, this isn't Symbian, hopefully (unlike the N97) this will live up to the hype, if it does Symbian are going to have to do some work....
I'm sure allaboutmaemo.com will be registered 😃
Of course, if Nokia were Apple they would offer a trade-in scheme for N97 owners... but since they are still learning, they won't!
Hello my next phone! I'm so glad I waited and skipped on N97.
Someone please answer the question fast on what would be the the kind (and variety) of 3rd party applications that might be available for this?
Why Nokia hasn't given s60 such hardware love? The processor and ram specs on the N97 is pathetic. I understand software tweaks and optimization makeup for it... but duh ... that's too much of a difference especially with the same price at launch.
Nokia please show more symbian love on high end devices.
celios wrote:I'm sure allaboutmaemo.com will be registered 😃
yea Rafe already owns http://www.allaboutmaemo.com
Nice phone/tablet, but again subject to the current trend of USA/pie-phone influenced form factor obesity. Too large for me to carry around.
Why is the guy in teh video wearing a crash helmet?
Unregistered wrote:Why Nokia hasn't given s60 such hardware love? The processor and ram specs on the N97 is pathetic. I understand software tweaks and optimization makeup for it... but duh ... that's too much of a difference especially with the same price at launch.
Nokia please show more symbian love on high end devices.
Well this article explains precisely why the N97 is crippled spec-wise. Because otherwise it would have clashed directly in the marketplace with this device. Expect the N97 price to plummet.
Unregistered wrote:Well this article explains precisely why the N97 is crippled spec-wise. Because otherwise it would have clashed directly in the marketplace with this device. Expect the N97 price to plummet.
The can't drop the N97 price too much as the N97 mini has to fit in somewhere, and there are all the other 5800-derived phones below it.
Nokia could end up just cannibalising their own market share, with one new device simply taking sales from away from another of their existing devices, and a certain company named after a fruit still cutting into their profits at the top end.
I don't think this will be an iPhone-killer, but I'm pretty sure it will be a N97-killer.
celios wrote:The can't drop the N97 price too much as the N97 mini has to fit in somewhere, and there are all the other 5800-derived phones below it.
Prices drop for all phones. It's the way the market works. N97 can already be had for 100 euros less than launch price.
celios wrote:The can't drop the N97 price too much as the N97 mini has to fit in somewhere, and there are all the other 5800-derived phones below it.Nokia could end up just cannibalising their own market share, with one new device simply taking sales from away from another of their existing devices, and a certain company named after a fruit still cutting into their profits at the top end.
Better to eat your own market share than someone else.
That was why Apple had to make an iPhone, otherwise iPod would have been eaten by mobile phones.
Unregistered wrote:Prices drop for all phones. It's the way the market works. N97 can already be had for 100 euros less than launch price.
Of course, but the �500 price for the N900 will be close to the current selling price of the N97 (my guess is this is due to the fact that Nokia are not expecting the N900 to be available on contract to many people).
They need to fit the N900, N97, 5800, 5530, 5230 together in some sensible way between �200-500.
But, the question remains, who will buy the N97 in it's current state when the N900 could be had for only a few euros more.
Unregistered wrote:Better to eat your own market share than someone else.
Someone else is already eating it.
Good start, but the screen should be capacitive.
celios wrote:
But, the question remains, who will buy the N97 in it's current state when the N900 could be had for only a few euros more.
Nobody will need to do that because the N97 price will naturally adjust downwards. This includes Sim-free sales and those prices dissembled within contracts.
Unregistered wrote:Good start, but the screen should be capacitive.
Not in a Helsink winter thank you.