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Perhaps the stand-out device from Nokia World this year was the N900, the Finnish company’s new internet tablet/smartphone crossover. The final production version still isn’t on the market, but that hasn’t stopped “preview” reviews from those with access to prototypes, covering both Maemo 5 and the N900 hardware itself. My-Symbian have just pushed out a four page article doing just that, and they’re more than a little excited.
Areas warranting particular praise include performance and stability, the UI design and the N900’s decent support for Skype. Less impressive are the keyboard – which could do with being a little larger, something we concur with – and the storage limitation for installable apps, which is a mere 256MB.
Now it’s worth remembering that any preview right now isn’t using final software, and we won’t see that until Nokia actually release the N900 (or just before). Until then, anything could change, at least with Maemo 5, up to and including battery life, performance and how the OS makes use of the N900’s hardware. Still, early pieces like this tell us one thing: there’s a huge hunger for a flagship Nokia device, and it seems the company are getting more right than wrong with the N900.
4 Responses to “Nokia N900 previewed: “wholly different league” to Symbian”
“256M storage limitation for installable apps”
This is just plain wrong. there is 256M of physical memory for applications and thats augmented with virtual memory for a total of 1g memory available for applications
If you look at the n900 web site: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/specifications/
-3it is pretty clear that there is 32gb Mass memory that is expandable with microSD card
not_you September 30, 2009
and you mysterious facebook user, have obviously not read the review. He clearly says that on his version of the firmware there is a 256mb area for installation of apps (a review by some Russian with newer firmware has it at 2 gig), the rest is storage space.
it’s a computer that can make phone calls, it’s ram is 256 mb (with virtual memory taking it up to one gig). That’s not the same as storage space, or space to install applications.
Hope that helps
+4not_you September 30, 2009
oh and there is a thread on updates/changes to the p/review by Michal Jerz (the writer of the p/review)
+3http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40412
i got the n97 for ma birth day this year n now i want this for next year big nokia fan
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