Nokia N900

Falling under the category of mobile computers, Nokia N900 is one of the best in the market if you have a big pocket. This phone is made on the Linux-based Maemo users, thereby taking mobile computing to new heights.

Design:

Talking of the design, the feel of the phone, is right enough to be bulky on your pocket, and is not slim enough to slip out of your pocket. This device has been credited as one of the sexiest black beast amongst the high-end devices that is decent, comfortable and long enough to be used as a writing utensil on the way.

Belonging to slider phone models, this phone is better designed to be used in the landscape orientation than most of the other similar mobile computer phones, which is fitting your pocket better or belt wallet and is too heavy for your trouser pockets.

The screen has a transflective technology that allows operating the phone under sunlight and the sliding extensive QWERTY keyboard, gives you the convenience to work like a PC in a mobile phone, which is complemented with the kickstand to give the appearance like an ultramini laptop. The phone also has a port to put your stylus along with the phone safely.

The camera with LED flash is at the back of the phone, while either sides of the phone features interface and access to camera, browser buttons, power on/off or a profile switcher, camera shutter, infrared port, screen lock and unlock slider, stereo loudspeakers, microUSB port and a 3.5 mm jack.

Above the screen on the front panel are the earpiece, video call camera, light sensitivity and proximity sensors with LED indicators. However, the phone is quite compactly fitted with these features giving a sleek design, though bulky in comparison to many of those handier and slim counterparts, this phone still feels good to hold.

Features:

Some of the pretty features that make this mobile phone a high-end computing mobile are powered as software and hardware performance enhancers.

To begin with, the contacts stored in this mobile phone will let you to merge and synchronize with Skype and other app contact details, and bring them all into one address book, where you can always stay online, see the availability of your friends and clients, tap your friends via regular phone calls, IM, SMS, email or SIP calls.

While these contacts could also be synchronized with your Outlook contacts, also will enable to set up multiple email accounts and support many of the popular email providers. Other emailing facilities will include, push email, calendar, contacts and mail for exchange.

Accessibility to web gives you the facility for not wanting to carry net books because of the high resolution screen, multiple web windows and tabs powered with Mozilla, high speed internet access via HSPA and WLAN connections. This also gives accessibility to watch videos and is powered with Adobe Flash.

In addition, music and videos can be stored on the 32 GB storage micro SD card, which will allow you to enjoy movies and audios of DVD quality that are accessible via Maemo 5 Music and Video player that are enhanced for stereo audio quality and sharpness for TV output. Carl Zeiss optics backs the quality of the pictures taken with the 5 MP camera that can capture WVGA 16:9 video and images with geotagging facility with photo editing options. Ovi Maps and Ovi store are some of the other portals making life easier while using this phone.

This side-slider phone weighing not more than 181 g has a touch screen with QWERTY keyboard and kickstand. The display screen of 3.5” works on WVGA technology and has nearly 65, 000 colors with more than 4 personalizable views that allows making voice calls in both landscape and portrait modes, 3D graphics acceleration with ambient LED and brightness control. The battery backing is quite powerful that can last long depending on the usage, for example, online usage lasting for nearly up to 1 day. Apart from the 32 GB internal memory, microSD memory card extension allows 16 GB expandability and 1 GB for application storage.

The phone can operate on QuadBand EGSM, WCDMA, GSM and Flight mode technologies. Connectivity hardware solutions will include GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA, WLAN IEEE, WLAN Security, TCP/IP and USB data modem connectivity. Other compatible devices could be connected via using Bluetooth and USB. TV output cable does accompany this phone.

Some of the compatible accessories are Nokia Bluetooth headset, Nokia Bluetooth Stereo speakers and Stereo Headset.