19 Facts About Nokia N900

Unlike the three Nokia Internet tablets preceding it, the Nokia N900 is the first Maemo device to include phone functionality .

Nokia 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.

Nokia N900 was announced on 17 September 2008 during a keynote presentation by Dr Ari Jaaksi of Nokia.

The Nokia N900 was officially announced on 2 September 2009 at Nokia World 2009 in Germany.

Nokia N900 says it is step 4 of 5 in the line of Maemo devices which started in 2005 with the Nokia N900 770.

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The statement from Nokia N900 was that there was higher pre-order demand than expected.

The Nokia N900 launched in Hong Kong on 29 May 2010, with added features to facilitate character handwriting input.

The Nokia N900 has an ambient light sensor that adjusts the display brightness and activates the backlit keyboard.

Nokia N900 has a microphone and stereo speakers located on each side of the device.

Battery life of the shipped BL-5J battery in Nokia N900 seems very deficient and it was not able to make it through a full working day with an internet connection and call usage.

Nokia N900 reported talk times are around 9 hours with GSM and 5 hours with 3G.

Typical battery time for the Nokia N900 N810 is around 7 hours of continuous full usage, display and Wi-Fi on.

The Nokia N900 comes preloaded with a variety of applications such as:.

In Nokia N900, there is no SIM Application Toolkit available, so it is not possible to use any services that require it.

Nokia N900 has acknowledged that it is a "hardware issue" and cannot be addressed.

Nokia N900 used to say that MeeGo was going to succeed Maemo for new devices; however, on 11 February 2011 Nokia N900 announced it will be primarily concentrating on their alliance with Microsoft.

On 3 March 2011, Jukka Eklund, Product Manager, MeeGo OS at Nokia N900 announced in the MeeGo-dev mailing list that there will be a MeeGo 1.

Community-based project aiming to provide a hardware upgrade for the Nokia N900, called Neo900, began in late 2013 as a collaboration between the Openmoko and Maemo communities.

The hardware upgrade would have quadrupled the device's RAM, provided a processor nearly twice as fast as the one in original Nokia N900, and integrated additional sensors such as a gyroscope and compass.