Nokia’s first Smartphone that can actually rival the iPhone and Android powered devices that are so popular. Running a Linux-based Maemo 5 Operating System gives an experience similar to a laptop or desktop PC.

Hardware wise the N900 has 32GB of memory, with over 1GB dedicated to applications. With the ability to properly multitask, the N900 can run many applications at the same time. Moreover, the N900 is powerful enough that it will soon have a full version of Firefox running on it.

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If you're looking for computer like performance in a mobile phone then take a look at the Nokia N900. Taking its brief from the world of desktop computing, the N900 has an open source Linux type operating system (Maemo) that gives an experience similar to a PC, in a mobile phone sized package.

The Nokia N900 allows you to open dozens of applications at the same time, while still being able to use the phones normal communication functions, all easily done with the touch screen and QWERTY keyboard.

At the heart of the Nokia N900 is a power packing ARM Cortex-A8 processor, plus up to 1 Gigabyte of memory for applications. Visuals are well catered for too with OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. The combination of this hardware gives PC-like multitasking, allowing more than one application to run at the same time. Toggling between applications is easy, as all current content is always available through the dashboard. The large screen can be fully customised with your favourite widgets, shortcuts and applications.

Some further hardware specifications of the Nokia N900 include 32GB of memory, which can be expanded up to 48GB by the use of a microSD card. When it comes to taking pictures the N900 has a 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, this is complemented by the Maemo software that offers a new tag cloud user interface.

Messaging on the N900 is convenient and simple due to the full physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Setting up email can be done with only a few touches and the Nokia Messaging service allows you ten personal email accounts. Text message and IM messaging with friends is displayed in one view and all conversations are shown as separate windows.

To make web browsing an enjoyable experience, the Nokia N900 has a high-resolution WVGA touch screen; plus fast internet connectivity (10/2 HSPA and WLAN). Due to the Mozilla powered browser, websites look the way they would on a desktop or laptop computer. Online videos such as YouTube video content and interactive applications are superb with full Adobe Flash 9.4 support. The Maemo software updates automatically whenever it needs to without you having to do a thing.

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Absolutely worth the wait!

Review Date: November 28, 2009

Reviewer: Andreas Iacovou, London

I finally had mine delivered today after a 2 month pre-order wait direct from Nokia. I have to say this phone is like no other I have ever used (and I've had many phones from all manufacturers over the years). Firstly it is stunning to look at and the pictures do not do it justice. It is extremely well made, feels solid with all aspects of the hardware feeling very impressive. The keypad is one of the best I've used (miles better than any HTC attempt). Its reactive and intuitive and this coming from someone with big hands. Excellent camera also which is a bonus. I haven't even got to the software yet, the new Maemo 5 operating system. All I can say is wow. It gives you an unprecedented amount of flexibility (even more than Windows Mobile) It also looks good and in my humble opinion finally we have a genuine advancement over the current iphone which seems to have been leading the way....until now. I could go on for pages about this phone mainly with positives but would like to quickly address some of the negatives that have been touted around. Firstly the touch screen is very impressive whether you use your finger, nail or stylus. I find it just works as it should and do not feel there is any problem here. Secondly, battery life. I got a full day from the first charge, and that was with heavy usage while I customised it with all my info and with the WIFI on. If I have to pick one negative it is that at the time of writing the app store 'Ovi' is not up and running. However bare in mind Nokia have delayed the launch date for bricks and mortar shops until 3 December so I expect it will be live by then. In summary this is without doubt the smartest Smartphone now available with the 'key' feature in my opinion being the 'computer' like web browsing, which is about as close to a full browsing experience as I've come across. The potential for this phone and more importantly the OS, Maemo is high and I think Nokia may have finally found their way again after a few 'flops'

Excellent pocket computer and phone

Review Date: January 10, 2010

Reviewer: Ricardo,

This Maemo powered Nokia N900 is excellent. The web browser is superb, a proper web browser that does flash, so you can watch youtube. The browser works well on the screen with gestures to zoom in, like double tap. The camera is cool, 5 megapixels and it geotags the location you took your photo using the builtin GPS. Video is good quality too, I've since download Qik and can send videos live to the web. Mediaplayer is good, very good quality watching films, the builtin in speakers are loud and it has TV out to watch on a larger screen. Neat thing is that it has a built in FM transmitter, so listening to music in the car is easy using FM, the N900 even makes your car radio say Nokia on the radio! It is has an application manager to download more apps, with Ovi shop to follow soon. All applications can be run at the same time, with proper multitasking. Plus as it is a computer, it comes with the x-terminal, so you can do geeky stuff. And of course it is a phone so not only can your get connected over WiFi, you can use 3g and make phone calls. The contact manager groups contacts for phone calls, Skype calls, SMS, instant messages, with a conversations application to view all conversations by contact, making it easy to track conversations, or start new ones. In all in all, I highly recommend this smart phone.

Fast and impressive.

Review Date: December 31, 2009

Reviewer: P. White, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Having finally obtained an N900 direct from NOKIA and having cancelled my 3 month old Amazon order (thanks guys, nice work) I have to report that I'm very impressed with the device. Setup is easy and I had my GMail and NTLWorld email accounts running quite quickly just by using the automatic configuration application. The browser is stunning and very quick, it's easy to browse any site and even small links can be clicked on using a finger rather than the stylus so the resistive screen is really not an issue. I particularly like the way that SMTP servers can be set up as connection dependant, so I can use a different SMTP server depending on what data access point I've got (3G, WiFi routers etc) and the device automatically sends through the correct one. It also gets a data connection from whatever is available automatically so here in my friends house it's prioritising her WiFi and not the GSM connection. It was always a nuisance using my N95 to have to manually tell the phone what connection to use, the N900 just does it all for me, great! The UI takes a few minutes to become intuitive (do read the manual) but really is very simple. The contacts are marvellous. Set up a contact and they populate throughout the relevant apps on the device. Include a mobile number and there's an automatic SMS button on the contact entry (etc). The phone app works well and I've had no problems but be aware that the microphone mute button has a permanent red line through it. I was pressing it to remove the line and unmute the mic but that's not what happens. The mike mutes/unmutes but there's no graphical change so be warned. If you think your mic is not working then try pressing the unmute button! The hard keyboard is really good and reviews claiming that there's not enough space above the top row of keys are incorrect in my opinion. I can type quite easily. It's possible to lock the number keys into number mode by pressing the blue fn key twice and that helps a lot. The display resolution and general clarity is excellent and I can read all the text of the top half of the BBC News website on one page (for example). Battery life is 'interesting' but not catastrophic. It's no worse than my N95 and there's a lot more going on. It's a slightly chunky paperweight kinda thing too but that's exacerbated by having to hold it horizontally, it's really not that bad. I've downloaded 'Bounce', a demo game that uses the accelerometer to control a rolling ball across a beautiful landscape. The stereo audio and graphical quality is amazing and this has the potential to be a good gaming device. What really impressed me is the option for internet radio. 30 or so internet radio stations are pre-configured and sound really good. Now I can listen to the World Service anywhere I choose, Rock & Roll eh guys! So, it's a fine device and I'm impressed. I've only had it a day so I'll be more impressed still when I've got thoroughly used to it and the firmware has been updated to improve the (already good) experience. Recommended despite NOKIA's release incompetence!

Open-source Nokia N900

Review Date: June 2, 2010

Reviewer: Steven Goacher, London

The Nokia N900 smartphone runs Maemo 5 (Linux) operating system. Nokia have released a phone for the open-source community and which hasn't been locked down by either the service provider (T-mobile, Vodafone) or Nokia themselves. This is great news for developers as well as hackers who want to customise their phones as much as possible. Out of the box, the phone is sim-unlocked and I could insert another sim card without needing to get it unlocked by the service provider or some corner-shop. This is true of the contract models as well as the sim-free ones. There are tools available for easy flashing of the firmware, so you could change to a non-standard firmware and back again if you want. Maemo Linux is very similar to desktop Debian or Ubuntu Linux. It uses the apt package tool for easy installing or removing of applications from repositories on the internet. You specify which repositories you wish to use, and then select the free applications you wish to install. Nokia's Ovi Store has more applications available (free and commercial ones) on top of that. I recently counted the applications available in the main repositories (standard, testing, devel) and the total exceeded 7500. Note that Linux software ports really easily to the N900 (It has a Qt based GUI running on an ARM processor). Although not as intuitive as the iPhone, the Maemo interface on the N900 is still great. I really like it. It has one of the best resistive screens available. There is a tendency for smartphones (e.g. iPhone, HTC Desire) to use capacitive screens. Capacitive are excellent for light touching, skimming the surface, but are poor for high accuracy where resistive excel. The N900 performs very well when skimming with the fingers as well as very accurately when used with fingernail or stylus ("The best of both worlds"). This makes the N900 ideal for full web-browsing and for sketching pictures or notes. The graphic interface has a number of sections. The main view allows you to select from a number of home screens, and place app short-cuts, notes, web-links, contacts on each home screen. Click on the corner and you bring up the application menu, and then scroll through the icons to select an app to run (very similar to iPhone or Android touch-screen smartphones). Click the corner again, and you get a group of running application boxes. Select a box to make that application run full screen, click the corner to come out of it and then select another running application. The multi-tasking on the N900 is superb. Run a load of apps, and switch between them easily. Open address book, calendar, calculator, web browser, media player all at the same time and flick between them. One more point against the iPhone. The web experience includes Flash. I have played a number of Flash games on websites, as well as browsing Youtube and even playing iPlayer (BBC) television from within the browser. You have a choice of multiple browsers to choose from. The default Maemo-browser, Firefox (including plugins), Chromium, Opera, and probably more by the time you read this. In comparison, the iPhone has been restricted by Apple so that it cannot play Flash in its browser. The latest PR 1.2 Maemo firmware brings Skype video calling to the N900. It has a small VGA camera in the front of the phone and a larger 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash in the rear. I've used Skype Video calling from my N900 to a friend's N900. Also Google Chat and Skype are integrated into the Phone Contacts so you can make Skype calls just as easily as a standard phone call. (At the point of calling you just select what type of call you are making.) The N900 comes with 32Gb of flash memory built-in, for storing movies, music, documents, photos, and so on. It also has a micro-sd slot (which will take 16Gb micro-sdhc cards) to expand the capacious memory even further. I really like the built-in Media Player which does a great job of handling playback of multiple files types (including OGG and FLAC). The quality of audio through the 3.5mm standard stereo socket is very good too. The Media Player can stream internet radio, as well as streaming videos/music from Windows Media Player, MediaTomb media streaming server. The N900 has many and varied features. I really appreciated the N900's TV-out capability when on holiday. I was able to plug it into the hotel's TV and play back movies in standard definition (no need to carry around a laptop or portable dvd player). Also it has FM radio receiver and transmitter built-in. I prefer a real hardware keyboard, and that's another thing the N900 has. You can use the N900 with a full-size bluetooth keyboard (if you want). It will play to stereo bluetooth headphones quite happily too. I've even used a Sony PS3 six-axis console controller to play games on the N900 (Quake, Duke3D ports). Nokia and Intel have joined forces to co-develop MeeGo (Linux) operating system from now and into the future. This will also be (mostly) open-source and eventually take over from Maemo. It is already possible to boot up the N900 to basic MeeGo version 1.0 via usb flasher program and a suitably formatted 2Gb micro-sd, without over-writing your current Maemo install. There isn't a lot of difference between Maemo and MeeGo so all the apps should translate between the two nicely. I find the battery lasts very well, when the phone is mostly idle and connected to wifi rather than 3G. Mobile 3G data does drain it a bit, but you should still get a day out of it from standard use. Taking it off mobile data, and with light use it'll last 3 days-ish. Browsing Google Maps with a PR1.2 Maemo N900, and its GPS turned on, makes geolocation data available to Google (if you want), which can be handy when you want to know where is the closest ATM, bar, petrol station in your vicinity. The screen has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, which is more than twice as many pixels as the iPhone 3GS (480x320). This is excellent for reading documents, watching movies, viewing photos, reading text, and web-browsing. For developers and hackers: Set up the N900 as a web-server with PHP support. Run Python and PyQT script-based GUI applications directly on the N900. The N900 is good as SSH client and SSH server (remote connect to it from your PC over Wifi). It runs fairly standard Linux (bash scripting, cron jobs, etc). Rsync your data to or from the N900. Build apps and then release to Maemo repositories or to Nokia OVI store without draconian app policing. The N900 is a fantastic device and I'm really happy with it. There are issues to criticise but then every device has compromises.

A really smart smart phone.

Review Date: May 7, 2010

Reviewer: T. Wainwright,

More like a small mobile computer than a phone. Fast, with plenty of memory. The development tools are also available, so unlike many other phones anyone can develop for the N900. Surfing the Internet using the N900 is also excellent, far better than any other mobile I have used. It also looks good. It does have its downsides. One is battery life. In areas with poor 3G connection having the phone repeatedly search for the network drains the battery considerably. Disabling 3G and WiFi if not needed does help there. The other is applications, currently there are not a lot of them. But with open development tools and a dedicated community of programmers that should change. Also the screen while excellent absolutely requires a screen protector otherwise it is incredibly easy to scratch it.

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Nokia N900 key Specifications

• Screen - 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display, 800 × 480 pixel resolution
• Memory - 32 GB internal storage, store up to 7000 MP3 tracks or 40 hours of high quality video, up to 16 GB of additional storage with an external microSD card
• CPU and 3D accelerator - TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
• Camera - 5 MP (2584 × 1938 pixels), Image formats JPEG, CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens, 3 × digital zoom, Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key, Dual LED flash, Full-screen viewfinder, Photo editor on device, TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP, Landscape (horizontal) orientation, Capture modes: Automatic, portrait, video, macro, landscape, action
• Video - Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA),video recording file format mp4, 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
• Language support - British English, American English, Dutch, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, Italian, Norwegian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian
• Connectivity - 3.5mm AV connector, TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable, micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0, Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets, integrated FM transmitter, integrated GPS with A-GPS
  Battery - BL-5J 1320mAh
• Keys and input method - Full QWERTY tactile keyboard and full QWERTY onscreen keyboard
• Operating frequency - Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
• Data network - GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL) EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL) WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL) HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL) WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
• Call features - Integrated hands-free stereo speakers, call waiting, call hold, call divert, call timer, logging of dialed, received and missed calls, speed dialing via contact widget, virbrating alert (internal),side volume keys, mute/unmute, contacts with images, conference calling with up to 3 participants, internet calling
• Email & Messaging - Supported protocols - Mail for Exchange, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, support for email attachments, support for rich HTML, SMS and Instant Messages as conversations, support for Nokia Messaging service, instant messaging and presence enhanced contacts, multiple number, email and Instant Messaging details per contact, contacts with images, support for assigning images to contacts
• Web browsing - Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology, Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support, full screen browsing
  GPS - Integrated GPS, Assisted-GPS, and Cell-based receivers, pre-loaded Ovi Maps application, automatic geotagging
  Music and audio playback - 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
• Personalisation - Background pictures, widgets on your desktops, intelligent contact shortcuts, shortcuts to your favourite websites, shortcuts to applications, themes
• Operating system - Maemo 5 software on Linux
• Applications - Maemo Browser, phone, conversations, contacts, camera, photos, media player, email, calendar, Ovi Maps, clock, notes, calculator, PDF reader, file manager, RSS reader, sketch, games, widgets, application manager for downloads
• Gaming - Bounce, Chess, Mahjong
• Colour - Black
• Dimensions - 110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm
• Weight - Approx 181 grams