If you’re looking to purchase the Nokia N900 but have been a bit uneasy about its $649 price tag you’ll be happy to know that the device has dropped to $479.99 on Amazon.com after a $50 mail-in rebate.

For close to 5 bills you will be getting the Maemo powered Nokia N900 with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 5MP camera and an unknown release date.

At least it’s unlocked, right?

via engadget

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It looks like Nokia is rethinking its smartphone policy when it comes to its Nseries. The manufacturer is said to focus on Maemo instead of Symbian and therefore all of its future Nseries phone will run Maemo by 2012.

Is Nokia thinking about ditching Symbian? That wouldn’t be such a good idea, would it? Nokia owns Symbian and it should figure out a way of making it more interesting and adapt it to our current needs instead of trying to replace it. But that’s what Nokia seems to be doing. Let’s not forget that the Nseries usually carries Nokia flagship phones. And if the next flagship phones are coming with Maemo OS, should we assume that Maemo will become the preferred mobile OS when it comes to Nokia mobile handsets?

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You can throw away all those leaked rendered photos and rumors out the window. Nokia has finally made the Nokia N900 official, releasing it together with the Maemo 5 OS. The Nokia N900 is expected to be unraveled next week at Nokia World.

Among the highlights of the Nokia N900 include an HSPA, WiFi and 32GB of storage into a touchscreen device powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 with 1GB of RAM. Maemo 5 supports desktop-style multitasking, Nokia Messaging and a new “cloud” UI.

Other features to watch out:

• Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration
• Full Adobe Flash 9.4 support
• 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics

There is also a microSD card slot that allows you to increase storage up to 48GB. The estimated retail price for the Nokia N900 is about €500 or $712 and is due for release in October. Check out the official videos.

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What you see above is Nokia’s Maemo N900 tablet/mobile phone, if that even makes sense. The picture comes to us from mobile-review who also took the time to completely break down just about every aspect of the actual device.

Spec wise, we’re lookin’ at 32GB of internal storage, ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, microSD slot, microUSB port and TV-out. That’s about all we know about Nokia’s Maemo N900 as the device they got their hands on was just a prototype and not the final product.

We’ll keep you posted as more news regarding this device surfaces.

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A weird rumor got out and spread around the web. According to it Nokia is going to dump Symbian OS and move forward with Maemo. It was said that Nokia will run Maemo on future tablets and smartphones which is very strange considering that Nokia has invested heavily in the purchase of Symbian and the Symbian Foundation is working on lots of Symbian OS versions, some definitely more interesting than others.

While Nokia hasn’t officially commented on the matter, Peter Schneider, the guy Nokia hired to do all that marketing for Maemo has send a clear Tweet: “No, Nokia is not replacing Symbian with Maemo. Symbian and Maemo will continue to coexist.”

So what’s the real deal? We’ll just have to wait and see what the near future brings us!

via TechCrunch

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Yesterday we told you how Nokia plans to launch Cseries phones and today we have more hot rumors for you. The Finnish company is also going to launch Xseries handsets, Nokia Money service and Booklet computers soon. Besides these trademarks we are to expect even more new names from Nokia.

The Xseries will cover the new Maemo 5 handsets while Nokia Money is supposed to be a new platform for mobile financially transactions. Booklet on the other hand will deal with netbooks, smartbooks and other ultra-portable computers. Now that we have the names we need some proof of their existence!

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For those of you who didn’t know, Nokia has an in-house operating system that currently co-exists with their more talked about Symbian; Maemo. You may recognize the name as Nokia currently ships a few internet tablets, namely the Nokia 770, N800 and N810, that run the Maemo OS. However, unlike Android, the operating system hasn’t strayed far from it’s developer.

Well today, Optima is proud to announce that they will be the first to bring a non-Nokia branded device, entitled the OP5-E, to market running Maemo. This device features a 4.3-inch resistive touch screen, 806MHz processor, 128MB RAM/256 MB ROM, a microSDHC slot, GPS, EV-DO, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, 3.2MP camera and a 2600 mAh battery.

While it’s not currently a phone, despite featuring a design closely resembling the iPhone, the OP5-E is said to be gaining phone and SMS at some point in the future.

via BoyGeniusReport

Tags: 3.2mp camera, bluetooth, Cell Phones, ev-do, GPS, internet tablet, Maemo, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Nokia, op5-e, optima, Portable Devices, resistive touch screen, WiFi

Nokia and Intel have announced a partnership and we can expect this duo to launch the next generation of mobile devices. What does this mean exactly? Are we to expect new Nokia-Intel smartphones soon? What about netbooks and laptops? We already know Nokia is interested in making laptops too so a partnership with Intel would definitely be welcomed.

The collaboration will be focusing on open source mobile Linux software projects like Moblin and Maemo. Combine Nokia’s wireless technology with Intel’s mobile chip technology and we should definitely expect some hot products to come along and we’ll be waiting.

via Intel

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We thought that Nokia will not be launching a new tablet soon but it looks like we were wrong. Nokia has a totally new tablet ready to step in the shoes of that prematurely departed N810. The new tablet is the N900, codenamed Rover, and it comes with features like: HSPA, WiFi and GPS connectivity, Maemo 5, 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, an OMAP3430 500/600 MHz processor, a 5 megapixels Carl Zeiss camera with dual-LED flash and 1GB total virtual memory.

The Rover will be officially launched next month and it will be available sometime in the second half of the year. Anyone interested? Will this Nokia tablet make it in this wild mobile world?

via cellpassion

Tags: Maemo, N900, Nokia, Nokia, Portable Devices, tablet