Nokia Announces Maemo 5 Powered N900 Tablet
August 27th, 2009 by Todd Haselton 
Nokia today announced a new tablet device, the N900. It’s a device that follows in the footsteps of the N800 and N810 tablets, but also one that builds on the idea of a mobile internet device by adding a GSM radio for phone calls. Most importantly, it sports the new Maemo 5 Linux based operating system. In the past I’ve usually been put off by tablets and MIDs; they are bulky, too big for pockets, and generally sluggish and a pain to use. I’ve always quickly gravitated back to an iPhone or a BlackBerry, leaving the tablet to gather dust on my desk. But the N900 could change my feelings. The N900 is what the N97 should have been. It sports a similar 32GB of storage (upgradable to 48GB with a microSD card), a large resistive touch screen, a 5MP camera with flash, HSPA and Wi-Fi radios, and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. And it replaces the clunky and dated Symbian OS on the N97 with the newer, cleaner, and seemingly quicker Maemo 5 platform. The device will cost about $711 dollars when it lands in Europe in October, before carrier subsidies.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 am
Uhhh… sure. So instead of my $249 32GB iPhone, I can get a 32GB Nokia that doesn’t have any apps, costs three times as much, is a lot thicker.
Sure, it has a flash, and a physical keyboard. But seriously, its like the kind of device Palm would have built before they designed the Pre.
Why do these things sell in Europe again?
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 am
After using an iPhone 3GS 32GB since day one, i started to dislike it after a while. Sure it’s fancy, great looks, but thats it. I feel betrayed by Apple as many others start to feel. Once the Wow! is gone, all is left is a toy. I bought Nokia E71 because i saw them used by millions in Europe. Not expensive, no contract needed, for about 300$. And i was surprised. It does the same, faster, better, more reliable, and above all, it is really usable. Actually, it can do A LOT more once you start to understand it. It is not a toy like 3GS. Now today i saw the N900 in real, and played with it for half an hour. And altough things need to be done, i think this is the future of mobile Computing. I am sure it can even replace my laptop, if not now, it sure can within 6 months. I really hope Nokia will be accepted in the US soon. I think politics is the reason why we miss all this.