25 January 2010

Nokia N900 With ARM Cortex-A8

Nokia has unveiled the ARM powered Nokia N900, the first handset from the company to run on the Maemo operating system.

The Maemo OS allows for multi-tasking, and the user can customise their homepage with widgets, shortcuts and applications, and new applications can be downloaded from Maemo Select, which is a dedicated store for the Maemo OS.

The N900, complete with 3.5 inch WVGA touchscreen, is capable of operating at high speed due to a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor and 1GB application memory.  This enables it to run multiple applications without the performance of the N900 being affected, Nokia said.

It comes with 32 GB of memory for storing music, videos and photos. An expandable 16 GB is also available through the use of a microSD card.

The touchscreen is responsive with the use of a finger, and an accelerometer is built in which changes the screen depending on how the phone is being held. A proximity sensor is also on board, which puts the display on standby when the user is on a call.  It also incorporates a  slide out QWERTY keyboard.

The N900 can also organise messages from multiple channels so that they appear as one conversation. A Mozilla technology powered web browser means the user can access the internet from the N900 mobile and the page will look exactly as it does on a PC. Videos and other interactive applications run via Adobe Flash 9.4. HSDPA connection, otherwise known as mobile broadband, allows speeds up to 10 Mbps.

It also includes a built in 5.0 megapixel camera. Geo-tagging allows users to write when and where photos were taken. A video capture facility records 25 frames per second.