


Shaped like a mobile handset, the N900 has a touchscreen plus slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a Mozilla-based web browser, an ARM Cortex-A8 processor and up to 1GB of application memory.
Nokia claims this processing power will offer "PC-like multitasking" so users can run many applications simultaneously, switching between them using Maemo's dashboard.
Connectivity-wise, the N900 will support Wi-Fi and HSPA, while its browser will support Flash 9.4. There's 32GB of storage plus a microSD card slot, and a five-megapixel camera. It will be priced around 500 Euros.
There's already speculation about what Nokia's activities with the Linux-based Maemo OS means for Symbian, which it uses for its other smartphones. It will be interesting to see how this whole story of Maemo vs Symbian will pan out.