Nokia has officially announced its only-Maemo powered device in India. The N900 will start retailing from the latter half of this month for Rs. 30,639. The price may seem on the higher side but N900 brings some interesting specs to the table like an ARM Cortex A8 600MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX GPU with OpenGL ES 2.0 support, 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, 3.5-inch touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, 3G, 32GB of internal memory, GPS, FM Transmitter, Bluetooth and microSD card slot.
N900 is one device that handles multitasking really well, offers good multimedia experience and with Maemo onboard – which is basically a Debian-based Linux distro – it gives you the liberty to install most debian apps.
You can read out N900 review at the link below.
Pls do not fall for the phones hardware specs, read through this forum posts for potential issues so that you arent disappointed by the purchase.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35391&highlight=potential+buyers
In simple words, maemo lacks most of the common smartphone features such as
– 3G video calling
– Call duration timers
– Limited portrait mode
– UI not consistent
– Battery draining
– No OVI music support, PC Suite, Voice navigation. Only OVI maps but limited features and it sucks
– Issues with Exchange mail, synching contacts and calendar.
– Issues with Media player, doesnt play DRM, Doesnt allow to add custom playlists, can sync with OVI music.
– Limited apps in Ovi store
– Cant add contacts to SIM
– No portrait virtual Key board
– No contact based ringtones
List goes on & On. So be sure before you spend your money and most importantly this will be the last phone on maemo5 as its EoL. Nokia has joined hands with Intel to create Meego [Maemo+Moblin]. It is officially announced that Meego will not be released for Nokia N900