All in all the device is a great phone. The battery is quite lacking at 1320mAh, but what can you do. Often we suggest that users carry around multiple batteries to make it throughout the day. Many Windows Phone Mobile users can share experiences of carrying around multiple batteries a day. Android users as well. With up to 16GB of additional storage to be added, and much development to continue, you can’t say that the N900 is not a sleek phone. Is it a phone for everyone? Not quite, but those power users looking to not be bound by any particular technological deficiencies will surely love this phone! We would like to give a special thanks to our bosses for going out to get this device for us to review here at Cell Phone Trek. Make sure to check back for more reviews!

Carriers: T-Mobile	Retail Price: $599.99
Manufactured by: Nokia	Contact Price: $599.99

Pros: The N900 is not bound by a lot constraints like many other devices. Power users are bound to love the customization of this device.

Cons: Features a resistive touch screen and a rather bulky design followed up by a ratherly small charged battery

There’s no doubt that Nokia is the largest manufacturer of cell phones by a staggering and strong number, but in a world of constantly changing operating systems can they come with the change? While they continue to exceed in all different types of markets, both high and low, from Vertu to the 1100 series, Nokia will surely remain dominant force in the next coming years. The question is just how many years remain until new giants like Google and Apple have accumulated a fair share of market space themselves to make a contending run. The Nokia N900 is a superlative attempt as a serious competitor in an already well established Android and Apple device-ecosystem. The Nokia N900 was first announced on September 17, 2008. It was originally under the code name Rover, followed by RX-51. To many the Nokia N900 was a groundbreaking step up from the previous devices, such as the Nokia N810, or any other devices equipped with Maemo. The N900 was the first to utilize the Texas Instruments OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8 core. It was also the first of its predecessors to technically be listed as a phone. The previous devices were labeled as Internet tablets. Of course the Nokia N900 still honors all of those features though. Maemo 5, the operating system in which the device runs off is Linux based, allowing for a wide variety of customization. The device saw its launch date at Nokia World on September 2nd, 2009, almost a year later. Releases for the United States and Europe followed shortly after in the coming months. Prices for the device vary depending on the country in which its purchased, but if you asked us it was $649 and tax. So now that we’ve got the device on our hands, it’s time to unpack the bad boy and get this review going!

The first thing you notice upon picking up the Nokia N900 is that it is a very dense device. There are internal components and you can feel them for sure! As a phone it is quite bulky, but when looked upon as an Internet tablet with a mass amount of capabilities, it’s pretty slim in comparison. If you’re familiar with the device’s predecessor, the Nokia N810, then you can tell that where the device has lost in height and length, it surely makes up for in thickness. It’s not to be mistaken that while the device is pretty looking, it is quite thick. It will surely put a giant bugle in your skinny jeans and even your lay around the house pants. However, lets explore all capabilities now that it is finally out of the box! The first thing you’ll notice is nokia includes your spring-loaded lock key right next to your convenient power button and headset jack. Which to the next of is complimented by a volume rocker 3.5mm headphone jack, two-stage camera button, and a micro-USB port that rests along the sides. All in all for the design, it’s solid. You won’t find any hard or shiny metals as if this were designed by HTC, but all in all it’s a very solid design. Slide the device down and you’ll immediately notice the full QWERTY keyboard. Unfortunately there are only 3 rows of keys, which were unsure of why they chose to do so. It still works good as ever though, and the keys are quite comfortable.

Putting all hardware aside, the device’s operating system, Maemo 5 has all the eyes of the technology community. With confirmed support for flash as well as full HTML support, Apple and Google may have it up their limits with this particular device. As of currently, neither Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS support Flash browsing. The possibilities are only beginning there too. Nokia and many others are hoping that Maemo will indeed become the premier Nokia operating system that will stick it to the likes of both Android and iOS. While the touch screen is unfortunately resistive, it is still relatively fast and speedy. This is great news for all those who aren’t ready to quite make the jump from a resistive touch screen such as a BlackBerry or Palm, straight to a newer Android or Apple device. A resistive display means it supports a stylus, and a lot of traditional users tend to like that. The screen comes in at 3.5 inches at a resolution of with a resolution of 800 × 480 pixel (WVGA, 267 ppi). The N900 also includes haptic feedback, allowing the user to choose how he or she would like his device to respond to vibrates.The screen Within the operating system itself, you’ll immediately see that there isn’t much lag at all. However, due to the fact that maemo is built off self managed tasks and processes, sometimes your device can become overloaded with running content. At times it can be somewhat of an annoyance, but sometimes it’s better than not being able to multitask at all, see the iPhone. The Nokia N900 is powered by an OMAP 3430 ARM Cortex A8 which is a System-on-a-chip made by Texas Instruments based on a 65 nanometer CMOS process. While the device runs at 600 MHz, reports say it can be clocked up to 1.15 GHz without any damage. The GPU on the device is made by Imagination Technologies, and is a PowerVR SGX 530. The phone supports OPENGL ES 2.0 and supports up to 14 MPolys/s and a TMS320C64. Needless to say, the phone is visually stunning. The device runs off of 256 MB of dedicated high performance RAM paired with access up to 768 MB. On the back of the device, the camera features a 5 megapixel range, translating to 2592x1944 pixels. It is also fortunately equipped with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light, and geo-tagging.