The Nokia N900 will be the first in a new series of devices from this company. Its design isn’t radically new, but this will be the smartphone running Maemo, an open source operating system based on Linux.
First Impressions
I was a long-time user of an earlier Maemo-based device, the Nokia N810, and I was surprised by how different the N900 will be from its predecessor. Fortunately, most of these changes seem to be improvements.
There’s no doubt what the biggest change will be: the N900 will be the first in this series to be a phone. The earlier models – N810, N800, etc. — were handheld computers without cellular-wireless capabilities. This one change leads to many of the others.
