Unlike the three Nokia Internet tablets preceding it, the Nokia N900 is the first Maemo device to include phone functionality .
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12 Facts About N900
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N900 was launched alongside Maemo 5, giving the device an overall more touch-friendly interface than its predecessors and a customizable home screen which mixes application icons with shortcuts and widgets.
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Nokia N900 was announced on 17 September 2008 during a keynote presentation by Dr Ari Jaaksi of Nokia.
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The Nokia N900 was officially announced on 2 September 2009 at Nokia World 2009 in Germany.
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The Nokia N900 launched in Hong Kong on 29 May 2010, with added features to facilitate character handwriting input.
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The Nokia N900 has an ambient light sensor that adjusts the display brightness and activates the backlit keyboard.
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N900 has a microphone and stereo speakers located on each side of the device.
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Battery life of the shipped BL-5J battery in N900 seems very deficient and it was not able to make it through a full working day with an internet connection and call usage.
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The N900 comes preloaded with a variety of applications such as:.
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In Nokia N900, there is no SIM Application Toolkit available, so it is not possible to use any services that require it.
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Community-based project aiming to provide a hardware upgrade for the N900, called Neo900, began in late 2013 as a collaboration between the Openmoko and Maemo communities.
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The hardware upgrade would have quadrupled the device's RAM, provided a processor nearly twice as fast as the one in original N900, and integrated additional sensors such as a gyroscope and compass.
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