Best of Nokia N900

The Nokia N900 is a new power packed Smartphone. A new addition to the world of Nokia smartphones, the N900 can stand its own when compared to other devices on the market.

Key features of this mobile phone:

Appearance – Although a bit chunky, this phone hides a powerful TI OMAP 3430 processor with ARM Cortex-A8 which runs at 600 MHz. Although slightly large in size, this phone does not compensate on style.

The N900 is sleek and jet black in colour with a glossy finish. They keyboard slides into the front panel and the camera is located at the back. The Carl Zeiss lens of the camera is protected with a shutter. There is a 3.5 mm headphone jack at the top along with the lock key.

Touchscreen – The Nokia N900 has a 3.5 inch touchscreen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. The screen supports 16 million colors. The resistive touchscreen is easy to use and quite responsive.

Operating System – The phone works on the Maemo 5 OS. This Linux based OS is open source and application developers and designers can add cool graphics and applications as they wish. Several applications can be run at the same time. You can easily switch between applications. Applications which are currently running are displayed as small panes on the display panel. You can close applications by simply clicking a cross sign at the side of the window.

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User Interface- The UI is easy to use and convenient. The desktop displays all ions and applications. You can also add shortcuts to social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Evernote etc. You can add widgets of your choice too. Navigating the desktop is easily done with a swipe of your finger.

Internet - The internet experience on this latest Nokia phone is enhanced by GRPS, EDGE, HSCSD, WAP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and HSDPA connectivity. The phone uses Mozilla Firefox explorer for internet browsing. You can zoom the web pages by simply double tapping on the page or by swirling your finger in a circular motion.

Navigation - The navigation software in this device is worth mentioning. The N900 has A-GPS, inbuilt compass and Ovi maps. If you don’t prefer to use Ovi maps, you can download and store maps of your choice.

Camera and video - This mobile phone has a 5 mega pixel camera with 3x zoom, geo tagging, auto focus etc. All these features combined with the superb clarity and resolution of the screen gives you great images. You can also edit images as you wish. Video streaming is possible with WVGA 848×480 @ 25fps.

Media - The Nokia N900 has some cool media features. The music player supports files in MP3, WAV, WMA and eAAC formats whereas the video player supports files in WMV, Real Video, MP4, AVI and XviD formats.

Microsoft Office - The document viewer in this mobile phone allows users to view MS Office documents and PDF files.

Games - You can download a Nintendo SNES emulator onto this handset. The gaming experience is good.

Other Features - Polyphonic ring tones, calculator, calendar, organizer, to-do list, Java, handsfree, voice memo, FM radio, vibrating alert and so on.