Nokia N900 goes on sale in US

Three months after Nokia first made the announcement, N900 is available for sale in the nation through Nokia Flagship stores, independent retailers, as well as online at www.nokiausa.com and www.amazon.com.

Nokia describes its latest cell phone as a mobile computer.

Key product features
Nokia claims that N900 is the best product ever conceptualized and manufactured by it. Unlike the company’s earlier cell phones, such as the N800 and N810, N900 is almost the size of a regular smartphone.

Available for $649, N900 will offer 800 x 480 pixels touchscreen display, feature GSM and HSDPA connectivity and Adobe Flash 9.4 support within the N900 Web browser.

It also boasts of a full QWERTY keyboard, four customizable home screens, plenty of storage space with 32GB internal memory.

Other features include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 5 megapixel camera.

Maemo to run on N900
Favoring Maemo platform over Symbian, another open source platform, the N900 will feature the Linux based Maemo5 operating system.

Maemo is an open source code developed by Nokia in collaboration with Linux kernel, Debian, and GNOME.

Maemo has basically been designed to run on high-end Nokia mobile computers.

The Maemo browser will feature fast Mozilla engine, thus giving access to rich interactive content like browser on PCs. It also offers personalized multiple desktop where a user can add calendar, map, and media player widgets, and choose his favorite application.

Users will also be able to access Ovi, Gtalk, Skype, and other IM contacts. It also offers goetags facility, helping users recall where the photographs were taken--like Madrid, Italy etc.

However, the company will continue to run Symbian system on its high-end devices.