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Nokia is based in Finland, it's cold there, capacitive screens don't work well.

ha!]]>Aug 27th 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-rx51-n900-en.shtml]]>Aug 27th 2009 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
Mameo is the os, not the hardware.]]>Aug 27th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 28th 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/1GB of app memory. This looks sooo sweet.]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Anyone interested?
And yes all the shortcomings it had at launch have been stifactorily fixed by Nokia's updates, fixes, tweaks and twists, but this N900 is gonna take its place in my pokets no matter what.]]>Aug 27th 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

It has 256MB of RAM but when apps run out of physical RAM, they can use some of the flash disk as virtual memory.

That makes it a 600MHz Cortex A8 with 256MB, same as the Pre and the 3GS so the question really becomes how good is the software at making use of it!

Looks better than Series 60 to me...]]>Aug 27th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
Full specs are:

# ARM Cortex - A8 superscalar microprocessor core running at 600 MHz
# Up to 1 GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
# Linux-based operating system
# 3D graphics accelerator with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
# 32 GB internal storage
# Expandable to up to 48 GB with external microSD card
# 3.5G and WLAN connectivity
# Quadband GSM with GPRS and EDGE
# Data transfers over a cellular network 10/2Mbps
# Data transfers over Wi-Fi 54Mbps
# Flash 9.4 support
# Full-screen browsing
# 5-megapixel digital camera
# Carl Zeiss optical lens
# Dual LED flash
# 800 × 480 resolution video recording
# Touch-sensitive screen
# 3.5” WVGA display
# 800 × 480 resolution
# Tactile and onscreen QWERTY keyboards
# Removable battery
# Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)
# Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4
# Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps
# Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263
# Maemo media player
# Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
# Built-in FM transmitter
# Ring tones: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
# FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR
# Digital stereo microphone
# DLNA]]>Aug 27th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 29th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/And free with two year contrack with that unlocked price. Damn nice.
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Looks great, price seems ok as well.

Some links for more info:
Maemo.nokia.com:
http://maemo.nokia.com

and
N900 interaction documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE
]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
lets see what Maemo brings in the real world (integration, app support etc)

don't want to be a symbian confused user; pc suite, ovi suite, selective ngage games, limited resolution...

looking forward to it...]]>Aug 27th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
When RAM falls, it uses the virtual memory from the hard-disk.
This is commendable of Nokia to introduce this in mobile devices. I think no one has done this before for mobiles?

Great going Nokia!!]]>Aug 27th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
The detailed specifications aren't yet up on forum.nokia.com. There's still the question of battery life...]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Lets see how the price translates when Tmobile starts selling it.]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Any $300 netbook can do more, better, faster, and most can have Windows instead of something-you-never-used.
I'll wait for Windows moving to smartphones instead of learning yet another OS.]]>Aug 27th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/You are mistaken, 1 dollar = 1 euro. (Or that's what Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and Apple are trying to make us believe)
But 1 euro = 1.42522 dollars.

Anyhoo, I'm seriously tempted to just give up on that awesome Tegra device someone is supposed to make someday before the end of 2009 and just get this.]]>Aug 27th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
Any word on the GPU and battery life?]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Seems nice enough.]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Seems nice enough.]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/Aug 27th 2009 7:55AM