After taking pre-orders in Italy and Germany, Nokia has now began taking pre-orders at their Uk store too. If £500 is no big deal to you, then all you have to do is click here to buy it. Nokia UK have it listed at £499 sim free. The German and Italian shops have it at €599. Nokia’s own figure when they announced the phone was EUR 500 excluding sales taxes and subsidies.
For those of you who missed the announcement, the n900 is Nokia’s first phone running Maemo 5 and its nothing like the S60 phones we are used to. It has a WVGA touch screen, a slide out qwerty keyboard, an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, upto 1GB of application memory and 32GB onboard which you can push to 48GB with a microSD card. The camera is 5MP with Carl Zeiss optics. The browser is built on Mozilla technology with full Flash 9.4, so websites should look like they do on your computer. And yes, Maemo does proper pc style multitasking with everything sitting in the dashboard.
Nokia says select markets from October, and the phone is on show at Nokia World in Stuttgart today. We’ll be keeping an eye on it, so stay tuned !!
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