Nokia N900 smartphone confirmed
August 27, 2009 by Bernd Kling
Also known as RX-51 or “Rover”, N900 is now officially confirmed as a smartphone, a surf tablet and more. It runs the Linux-based Maemo 5 OS and will be offered starting in October.
We knew it for months, but today Nokia finally confirmed it. More details will come out next week at Nokia World in Stuttgart, Germany.
The 3.5 inch touch screen is a bit smaller compared to Internet tablets N770 / N800 / N810. It has grown in features to be Nokia’s first high-end smartphone based on Maemo 5. A Mozilla browser and support for Adobe Flash 9.4 should add to a desktop like surfing experience.
This does not mean Nokia is ditching Symbian anytime soon. The company instead will deploy Symbian S60 in a broad variety of mid-range handsets. Nokia obviously wants to support both operating systems for quite some time and promises to make it easy for developers to write applications for both.
N900 looks strikingly similar to its Symbian siblings N97 and the upcoming compact version Nokia N97 Mini. But Nokia executive vice president insists it is much more than just a phone:
“The Nokia N900 shows where we are going with Maemo, and we’ll continue to work with the community to push the software forward. What we have with Maemo is something that is fusing the power of the computer, the Internet and the mobile phone.”
In a video demo proud and happy Finns are showing off the touch screen GUI including multiple desktops, Dashboard and simple finger gestures for zooming in and zooming out.
N900 is expected to carry a price tag of 700 $ when launched in selected markets in October.
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