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Nokia N900 is now shipping! {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 10:51PM - preorders alone run to hundreds of thousands, I think it is mass-market...
- N900 costs 599 EUR here in Italy. iPhone costs 720 EUR.
- Finland is in the north.
- N900 on contract can be free (e.g. UK) and T-mobile US is expected to run it subsidized.
- N900 has nice application repositories, besides the coming Ovi Store. Choice is good.
- It does not run Symbian, but Maemo, a Linux-based OS. (That's why it is exciting, Symbian is old news indeed.)
Nokia N900 is now shipping! {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2009 5:05AM there you go: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091105/smartphone-wars-nokia-n900-versus-htc-hd2-versus-motorola-droid-five.htm
Nokia N900 is now shipping! {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2009 4:42AM Normally, I'm not easy on Engadget's mistakes on Nokia - but @Btdt, there was none in this post.
It is a new generation of _smartphones_ and the first mass-market appeal Maemo device (hence the "future" starting now).
Nokia makes Qt port to Maemo 5 and N900 official (video) {Engadget}
Oct 9th 2009 7:07AM http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/c05693a1-265c-4c7f-a389-fc227db4c465/Maemo_5_SDK.html
Maemo 5 reviewed in breathtakingly granular detail {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 29th 2009 6:27PM @Chris: there is a much better review out there - http://my-symbian.com/other/preview_n900.php
that one is also based on a proto device, but at least not the stolen, cannot-do-firmware-update-because-Nokia-would-catch-me-Eldar's N900 version from last year.
Nokia's 5800 Navigation Edition announced, finding its way to stores soon {Engadget}
Aug 21st 2009 6:38PM I think it could be the N97. It was seamless on my 5800 and quite buggy on my N97.
Nokia RX-51 tablet captured in the wild {Engadget}
Aug 8th 2009 4:26PM Try an N97 for example. The space bar (the most used key) is placed under your thumb, perfectly.
I don't want space bars in the middle anymore, I want to reach them without reaching :)
TomTom's iPhone car kit and navigation software priced overseas {Engadget}
Aug 6th 2009 8:54AM I wonder how it compares to iGo My way (http://www.igomyway.com/en/), which is quite popular in Europe and where a US navi version is 80 USD... (A mount for 114 USD in the TomTom package seems excessive).
BlackBerry Desktop Manager coming to Mac in September {Engadget}
Jul 20th 2009 3:24PM Good point about Nokia - we are able to sync audio, photos, videos, contacts etc. but the Ovi Suite for Mac was promised for beta in December! It's July if anyone counting...
http://www.renegadefanboy.com/2008/11/nokia-confesses-to-working-on-ovi-suite-for-mac/
Nokia cuts market share targets as Q2 profits plummet {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2009 9:28AM @Thomas Ricker, a couple of points, which are also interesting (besides the 66% profit drop):
- Nokia Ovi active users are now 46 million (Ovi Store, Maps etc.)
- smartphone sales are up 23% compared to Q1
- Nokia 5800 sold 7 million is 7 months. That's an estimated 12 million in 12 months
- sales, marketshare and smartphone marketshare all increased compared to Q1
- Ovi user numbers collected in 10 months and expected to surpass Facebook active user numbers in about 14 months time. It is also about 10x of the estimated MobileMe user numbers (started the same time).
