Today’s mobile phones are a far cry from what they once were, but in a very good way. No longer the ill-fitting, bulky and clunky chunks of plastic they used to be, mobile units now feature high-tech hardware integrated in ever-increasingly-seamless ways. Mobile phones are more versatile than ever nowadays, with mobile packages getting more flexible and functional with each release from top mobile manufacturers who know how to get the most out of the hardware and software packages they assemble for their discriminating, increasingly tech-savvy public. The trick, they find, is to put together a phone that can do it all and do it well – and that’s often harder than it sounds.
One model that manages to do that to a great extent, however, is Nokia’s N900. Looking almost the same as the Finnish mobile manufacturer’s previous Internet tablet models, the slide phone features a 3.5-inch resistive 800×480-pixel WVGA touch screen [very sharp at just undr 270ppi] and a full landscape keyboard. Despite its size, however, the N900 is a reasonable comfortable fit in the pocket, smaller than the previous N810 model.
The keyboard features integration-related changes as well, with a three-row structure that places directional keys on the right side where they belong. Domed keys and great travel [and excellent, easy blind typing – more ideal than that of the N97] round out the advantages of the changes made to the keyboard. On the back of the phone is a high-resolution 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera, a truly significant upgrade that gives the N900 some photographic punch. Two LED flash bulbs ensure great photography in low light, and the autofocus function, full-screen viewfinder, and built-in photo editor are great pluses as well.
The Maemo 5 Linux platform shows considerable evolution of the proper sort, running comfortably on the horsepower afforded by the N900’s 600 MHz OMAP 3430 processor, and providing a great user interface incorporating a finger-based interaction model. All applications run smoothly in a full-screen mode supported by Maemo 5, and similarities to Android and Palm’s solid webOS can be noted in the new task manager and system status tray. Web browsing and email client functionality have both been updated significantly on the N900 as well. What’s more, the N900 is constantly getting software updates to further fine-tune device performance and other applications.
Connectivity is another of the N900’s strong suits, with quadband GSM worldphone functionality as well as Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA and Wi-Fi to round it all out. However, the N900 is less a phone with smart capabilities and more a data device that’s been given voice functionality – although call quality is good and clear, and the typical Nokia speakers give audible and crisp audio as well. Internet browsing is more notable, as the MicroB web browser interacting with the latest Maemo version makes for a comfortable high-resolution browsing experience. The same is true for the multimedia aspects of the N900, which can belt out 25fps video on the 848×480 resolution screen at a good clip.
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I am a brand new Nokia n900 user from india, i need to have some assist from ur all, how can i use skype in my cellphone wherever it is not showing the pre set up application. although i m not in a position to use aMSN in my cell phone whn ever i m installing it, it saying unable to install as some installer files are missing please tell how can i use yahoo voice and video calls and msn voice and movie calls and most essential skype.