Ultimate Review of the Nokia N900

As Nokia World approaches it seems like secrets are all over the place and once again the secret is out, yesterday we showed a screenshot of the RX-51 aka Nokia N900 and I was certainly very impressed.

Today our friends from Mobile-Review have given Nokia Fans the ultimate review of a prototype of the upcoming mobile internet device with telephony better known as the N900.

Here is a sample of the review and some pictures to go along, as far as I’m concerned one word would describe my impressions WOW. Guys, Nokia the sleeping giant has awaken once again and is ready to take charge of what has always belonged to them and that is the number one spot and they intend to stay here. Enjoy the review and pictures which are all from Mobile Review.

Design

The N900 is housed in the side-slider form-factor, although it doesn’t boast an N97-esque opening mechanism. All in all, the phone’s build quality is on par with that of the Nokia E75.

 

The N900′s camera is no different from that found in the Nokia N97, plus it comes equipped with a lens shutter (so far it has managed to keep the lens clean). The camera interface here is the only feature carried over from S60.

The microSD slot (hot-swappable) is hidden under the rear panel and supports memory cards up to 32 GB. The handset carries a standard 1320 mAh battery onboard. However in practice it proves to be more power-hungry than the N97. At the same time, they aren’t much different in terms of standby times, but don’t forget we got our hands on a proto, not the final version of the phone.

 

The smartphone is built on ARM Cortex-A8 CPU and carries 32GB of internal memory onboard, as for the rest specs, we’ll keep them to ourselves untill the announcement date.

 

There is the microUSB jack (plus the N900 can recharge over USB) and TV-out. I guess that’ll be it – after all, its design is not the N900′s key feature.

 

Maemo

The RX-51 is run by Fremantle. I know this name won’t say anything to most of you, but for simplicity sake, let’s say this is the next version of Maemo and it differs dramatically from what we saw on the Nokia N810. Havea look at the screenshots below – they are way more informative:

 

Impressions

I would say what’s going to follow are my personal impressions of the device plus opinios of my family and several people who also had a chance to play around with the N900. Compared to S60, the N900′s boot time is much faster, and also take into account the fact that we played around only with its prototype, so we were prepared for occasional reboots during our quality time with it. This is something Nokia will have to work on, and I hope they’ll fix this issue in the final version of the device. Other than that, I was more than happy with how the N900 performed.

Due to variety of visual effects, smooth transitions and decent reaction time of the touch screen (which is a significant improvement over the Nokia N97), the N900 feels more like the Apple iPhone. At the same time its UI looks nothing like that of the iPhone – it’s just different, but eye-candy nonetheless (maybe somewhat similar to HTC’s products). Everyone who had a chance to play with it noted that it didn’t look like any other Nokia-branded device, yet it was an enjoyable experience overall.

Even the browser is pretty stable, and it supports flash, video and applets. On top of that there is partial compatibility with older applications, some things work and some don’t. But in general most apps did start up on the N900, yet some of them required libraries our device didn’t have.

Click here to continue reading the entire review over at Mobile-Review

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