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| Nokia N900 launches in the US today Posted: 19 Nov 2009 09:52 AM PST
Nokia’s latest offering N900 has been creating a buzz these days thanks to the Maemo OS.Only thing concerned was the price and would smartphone freaks buy this comparing the other smart phones ? Nokia is not able to hold on the US market thanks to lack of subsidized offerings from American carriers.Although the new N900, which began shipping last week in other parts of the world and today comes to the U.S., continues that unsubsidized tradition, there are a number of reasons to pay attention to the device as part of Nokia's strategy to boost visibility in the States and shore up market share losses in recent years to Apple and Research in Motion's popular BlackBerry lineup. For one thing, the N900 is a powerful device — and as much as the iPhone or Android (Android) handset has been widely described as a "computer in your pocket," the N900 in many ways ups the ante in that department. Under the hood it's powered not by Symbian S60 (Symbian S60) but by Maemo 5, a custom Debian Linux distribution. Although Symbian still owns a good half of of the smartphone operating system market, Nokia has apparently seen that its days may be numbered as compared to the newer generation of smartphone OSes. In a shift away from Symbian and towards the more powerful new platform used in the N900, they recently announced that all their high-end NSeries devices will run Maemo by 2012. The N900's hardware specs are equally impressive to match: ARM Cortex A8 processor, 256 MB of dedicated RAM, 32 GB of storage expandable via microSD, full QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel camera, and a 3.5-inch touchscreen at 800 x 480 resolution. It features native Adobe Flash support for full-featured web browsing, with even the ability to run Google Wave. But without carrier subsidy, consumers are asked to shell out about $650 USD for an unlocked phone.Many of them aren't prepared to pay such a steep unsubsidized cost, even for a hugely powerful smartphone.I even saw a link on Newegg today for 559.99$.Here is a screenshot of the same.
So are you going to buy in-spite of carrier subsidy and locked phone.Would love to hear from you all. |
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