Nokia Unveils Linux-Based N900 Smartphone with Multitasking
Nokia Unveils Linux-Based N900 Smartphone with Multitasking
Posted 08/28/2009 at 1:45pm
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Nokia on Thursday officially unveiled its N900 smartphone. Built around the open-source, Linux-based Maemo software, Nokia says you can expect "a PC-like experience on a handset-sized device."
Under the hood, the N900 sports an ARM Coretex-A8 CPU, up to 1GB of application memory, and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. According to Nokia, this combination gives the end-user PC-like multitasking, allowing many applications to run simultaneously.
Other features include a high-res WVGA touchscreen, full Adobe Flash 9.4 support, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 32GB of storage expandable up to 48GB via a microSD card, and a built-in 5MB camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
Nokia says the N900 will launch in October for select markets at a price of 500 EUR, or about $718 USD.
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Khaled
August 29, 2009 at 3:24am
usually Nokia announces a phone right after a release of a previous one... and only release that new phone one year later ...
This one will be out before the end of the year? that's a first!
I am interested to see what will Nokia do with this platform....
mesiah
August 28, 2009 at 7:40pm
Generally I have never liked nokia phones primarily because I don't find their design aesthetics appealing. I am not quite a fan of this phones look either, but aesthetics aside, this thing sounds like a winner to me. Nice screen, tons of storage space / program memory, same powerful cpu as the iphone and palm pre, Physical keyboard unlike iphone that is in landscape format like many people wish the pre had. Throw in full flash support and opengl, this thing is a beast. The only thing that could kill this phone is lack of support for the OS and overall lack of apps. If this hits the US market with a 2 year contract price of $300 or less it will likely be my next phone. Until now I was leaning towards the pre.
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