Nokia's N900

Nokia's new phone that runs on the Linux Maemo operating system, the N900, has finally hit Indian shores. It boasts of a wide 8 cm (3.5") touchscreen display, a QWERTY keyboard, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, an LED flash with 3X digital zoom and GPS facility, reports The Times Of India. It has a 32GB internal storage memory with Wi-Fi, 3G, FM transmitter and Bluetooth connectivity. The phone will be available in late June and will make your wallet lighter by Rs 30,639

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Key Features

• 3.5" 65K-color resistive touchscreen of WVGA (800 x 480 pixel) resolution
• Maemo 5 OS
• State-of-the-art Mozilla-based web browser with Adobe Flash 9.4 support
• Slide-out three-row full QWERTY keyboard
• ARM Cortex A8 600MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX graphics accelerator; 256 MB of RAM
• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support
• 5 MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and active camera lens cover
  WVGA (848 x 480 pixels) video recording @ 24fps
• 10 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support
• Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS
• 32GB onboard storage
• DivX and XviD video playback
• Foldable kickstand
• microSD card slot with microSDHC support
• Built-in accelerometer

Main Disadvantages

• Large and heavy
• UI only works in landscape mode (for now)
• No video call capabilities, smart and voice dialing
• Outdated camera interface and features
• No preinstalled voice-guided SatNav application
• No voice recorder, no MMS, and no handwriting recognition
• No FM radio application (despite that the hardware's there)
• Limited third-party software availabilty
• Limited 3G support in the US (no AT&T)