The Nokia internet tablet series will have a refresh in the form of the N900. Expected to be released this October 2009, this is the first Nokia internet tablet that has built-in telephony features. (The previous models, N770 and N800, did not have phone features.)
Features:
- 5 megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light, Geo-tagging
- WVGA(848 x 480)@25fps video recording
- secondary VGA camera, for video conferencing
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 900
- 3.5-inch 800 x 480 TFT resistive touchscreen
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Memory: 32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM
- microSD expansion slot, up to 16GB
- 802.11 b/g WLAN
- Bluetooth v2.1, with A2DP
- microUSB connection
- Maemo 5 operating system
- ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz processor, PowerVR SGX graphics
- Stereo FM radio; FM transmitter
- GPS with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps
- MIDP 2.1 Java
- Digital compass
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player
- WMV/RealVideo/MP4/AVI/XviD video player
- TV-out
- Dimensions: 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm
- Weight: 181 g
In my opinion, the lack of popularity of the previous Nokia Internet Tablets could be due to the absence of the mobile phone function. This shortcoming was addressed by Nokia in coming up with the N900, and also added the whole nine yards!
The Maemo operating system is a modified version of Debian GNU/Linux, specifically developed for the Nokia Internet Tablet series.
