While the N97 is officially Nokia’s flagship phone, it’s fair to say that the high-end handset isn’t exactly their most exciting model around. With a souped-up hardware set and a fresh operating system at the helm, the Nokia N900 could potentially take its place.
Sporting the company’s new Maemo 5 OS, the device comes with multi-tasking capabilities and up to 768MB of virtual memory, which it uses as additional RAM. Core hardware ticks off the same specs list as the iPhone 3GS, boasting a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 256MB of RAM and a PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support.
Originally rumored as a mini-tablet instead of a phone, the N900 touts a side-sliding QWERTY keypad and a 3.5-inch touchscreen LCD with 800 x 480 pixels of resolution. Hardware specs include 5-megapixel optics with autofocus, a GPS radio (with Ovi Maps preinstalled), 32GB of built-in storage, microSDHC expansion, an FM tuner, stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a 1320 mAh battery unit.
It comes with extensive media capabilities (including DivX and XviD) with an accompanying TV out, a Mozilla-based full HTML browser with Flash 9.4. Connectivity support includes quad-band GSM and tri-band WCDMA.
The Nokia N900 is, without a doubt, the Finnish company’s best phone on paper. However, that’s what they said about the N97 too, but look how that turned out. If Maemo 5 proves a better smartphone OS than the Symbian S60, then that will be proven. It’s set for release in October with an estimated 500 Euro price tag.
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