Nokia N900 Review– A Cool Hand Held Computer
If you are a gadget savvy person, who cannot forgo the high profile mobile phones, then you will die for the Nokia N900. It is not just another N series phone because it is a tablet and phone. The Nokia N900 is not only a slim mobile phone with dimensions of 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm and weight of 81 g, but also a slide full QWERTY keyboard mobile phone. The Li-Ion 1320 mAh battery provides a standby time of 278 hours for 2G and 250 hours for 3G, talk time of 6 hours 30 minutes for 2G and 4 hours 30 minutes for 3G and an incredible music play time of 24 hours 30 minutes.
The huge 3.5 inches resistive WVGA touch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels is definitely a winner. This is the second widest smart phone display, next only to Samsung 360 H1. Great image quality and splendid sunlight legibility makes the Nokia N900 the best in its class. The sensitivity of the screen is quite good and all you need is a gentle press to get the work done.
The slide out full QWERTY keyboard is another winner for the Nokia N900. The three row layout however requires you to use the shift and alt keys quite extensively to use the characters. There is also an onscreen numeric keypad for dialing the numbers. An additional virtual keyboard for text input is available when you want to send messages using the touch screen interface.
The music player is very basic, but it is not very interesting without advanced features. The FM transmitter is a good addition to share music with others. Video watching experience is good with large screen and DivX support. A 5MP Carl Zeiss camera is not much of an impresser for both still images and video even with dual LED flash.
The Maemo Linux based platform was not considered as a platform for smart phones until the release of the Nokia N900. In fact, it is much better than the S60 Symbian OS as the interface is very consistent. The OS works only in the landscape mode. For some mobile phones users, this is a bad point actually. So, Nokia has plans to introduce firmware upgrade to make the OS work in the portrait mode too. The cool feature of the Maemo OS is that you have to hit the task manager first to open the main menu if there are applications running. This task manager lists the browser tabs too so that you can switch easily.
The home screen is neat and simple with a limited number of widgets, but you can download new ones. Kinetic scrolling is enabled with most of the applications, but organizing the main menu is not quite easy. Regular PC shortcuts for commands like copy, paste, undo are all made available with the Nokia N900.
The phone book of the Nokia N900 is pretty basic and nothing much to talk about it. A dedicated call log is removed and you can view recent communications with the contact in the phone app. The telephony is good as expected, but the Nokia N900 lacks both smart and voice dialing. You can send SMS and emails using the Nokia N900, but not MMS and audio messages. There is no handwriting recognition, which is disappointing even with a stylus.
The Nokia N900 presents the best connectivity options with support for USB, Bluetooth, infrared, and Wi-Fi. Networks such as GPRS, EDGE and HSPA are supported to provide fast access to internet. Mozilla based browser is supreme and makes browsing very enjoyable. The organizer is complete, but the mobile office is a trail version. The built-in GPS receiver with Ovi Maps is great for navigation purpose. The Maemo platform is not fully developed and hence, the Nokia N900 allows use of third party applications.
Specifications:
| 2GNetwork | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100 |
| Announced | 2009, August |
| Status | Available. Released 2009, November |
| Dimensions | 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm, 113 cc |
| Weight | 181 g |
| Type | TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors |
| Size | 800 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches |
| - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off | |
| - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate | |
| - Full QWERTY keyboard | |
| Alert types | Vibration, MP3 ringtones |
| Speakerphone | Yes, with stereo speakers |
| - 3.5 mm audio jack | |
| Phonebook | Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall |
| Call records | Detailed, max 30 days |
| Internal | 32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM |
| Card slot | microSD, up to 16GB |
| GPRS | Class 32 |
| EDGE | Class 32 |
| 3G | HSDPA, 10Mbps; HSUPA, 2Mbps |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA |
| Bluetooth | Yes, Yes, v2.1 with A2DP |
| Infrared port | Yes |
| USB | Yes, v2.0 microUSB |
| Primary | 5 MP, 2576×1936 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light |
| Features Geo-tagging | |
| Video | Yes, WVGA(848 x 480)@25fps |
| Secondary | Yes, VGA |
| OS Symbian | Maemo 5 |
| CPU | ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX530 graphics |
| Messaging | SMS (threaded view), Email, Push Email, IM |
| Browser | xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio (via third party software); FM transmitter |
| Games | Yes, 5 + downloadable |
| Colors | Black |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps |
| Java | No |
| - Skype and GoogleTalk VoIP integration | |
| - MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player | |
| - WMV/RealVideo/MP4/AVI/XviD/DivX video player | |
| - TV-out | |
| - PDF document viewer | |
| - Photo editor | |
| - Adobe Flash Player 9.4 | |
| Battery | Li-Ion 1320 mAh (BL-5J) |
| Stand-by | Up to 278 h (2G) / Up to 250 h (3G) |
| Talk time | Up to 6 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G) |
| Music play | Up to 24 h 30 min |
| Music play | Up to 35 h |
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