subject: Nokia N900's 6 Shining Points [print this page] Nokia N900's 6 Shining Points Nokia N900's 6 Shining Points
I've always been phone fan, especially a fan of Nokia. After getting a Nokia N900, I couldn't let it go off my hands. The Nokia N900 is a mobile computer made by Nokia with smartphone functions. It supersedes the Nokia N810. The 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.
Web browser
The Nokia N900 sports a fast Flash Player 9 plugin, multiple pages, desktop web shortcuts, RSS feeds, importing bookmarks and opening local HTML pages. Browsing at 800480 pixels is astounding.
2. Installing Apps
The 1-month old device already has over 1,000 apps (if you know how to get your sources setup) and that doesn't include the Ovi Store which has not yet launched for the N900. Apps do everything from enabling screenshots to adding twitter support into contacts and messaging. The list of apps already present is extremely impressive and the fact that it's an open source platform means more will come at a very fast rate. Notification of updates is also very well-managed.
3. Contacts
The Nokia N900 Contacts app offers all of that and serves as a consolidated social networking, instant messaging and VOIP contact list. This is an extremely interesting way of approaching contacts by letting you forget about the medium of contact and jump directly into who you want to talk to. You can also filter by medium and availability status.
4. Media
I was extremely surprised to see my Windows Media and Sonos appear on my N900 media player window the minute I loaded it up. And it streamed all the files (including MKVs! third party support) instantly. Yes, it doesn't sync with iTunes. Yes, Nokia Music sucks. Its name sucks. DRM sucks. Windows-only sucks. Syncing sucks. But I get to be in control. The interface is quite sexy as well
5. Messaging
The Nokia series like Nokia N900 as well as Nokia E5 solution to messaging was as interesting as their approach to contacts. One consolidated Conversations app including text messages, Twitter @replies and hashtags, IM and VOIP messages and any additional modules you enable. Absolutely amazing!
6. Photos
The Nokia N900 camera has a gorgeous 5MP Carl Zeiss lens and flash. The photo management provides, in addition to sharing options, cropping tools and image modification functionality.
The Nokia N900 from China manufacturer does not support multi-touch and is quite bulky, I agree, but the full QWERTY keyboard, video conferencing, 32 Gigs of built-in storage and additional SD-card support are way too cool. Heck, it even supports a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Why? Because it can!
