Back in May we saw rendered images of Nokia’s N900 (aka Rover, aka Maemo Flagship). Now, according to Mobile-review.com this is the handset in the flesh. As you can see it’s very similar to Mobile Crunch’s renders and it includes Nokia’s awkward (misaligned spacebar) QWERTY keyboard setup. OS wise were looking at Maemo, and praise the lord because any more Symbian and I think I’d have to choke myself out on my own vomit (yes, I hate Symbian that much). Of course, I haven’t tried my hand a Maemo, but its my assumption that any mobile OS (Windows excluded) is an improvement over the Nokia standard.

So will this be a game changer for Nokia? Perhaps, but I have my doubts. The N900’s form factor looks very similar to the N97, and despite it having a higher resolution screen (800×400) I’m still concerned that the it will lack serious multitouch abilities, such as the iPhone.  It looks very chunky for the pocket, which was one of my gripes with the N97 (review coming tomorrow). I took a look at some of the operating system’s screen shots, Maemo, and I’m very impressed with how clean and simple it looks.

[via Mobile Crunch]

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