Last week I got a hands on with the Nokia N900 at CTIA San Diego.  I wasn’t totally floored with the device, but I really dug the Maemo OS.  For those of you who just can’t wait, good news, Dynamism has it up for preorder.  You can grab it for $629 and according to the retailer it will ship October 27th, or so they suspect.

Specs:

• TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
• Touch-sensitive widescreen display 3.5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel resolution
• GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz WCDMA 900/1700/2100 (HSPA)
• BL-5J 1320mAh battery
• 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm
• 32GB of storage plus microSD card slot for expansion
• GPS

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Nokia announced their N900 touchscreen tablet, based on Linux-based Maemo software. The sleek, sexy looking N900 features:

• ARM Cortex-A8 processor
• Up to 1GB application memory
• OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration
• 32GB storage, expandable to 48GB via microSD
• WVGA resolution touch screen
• HSPA and WLAN wireless
• Physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard

The Nokia N900 will be available this October with a estimated retail price of 500EU.

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Last week we got our first official peak at Nokia’s newest phone, the N900. While we’ve known of its existence for a while, previous to Mobile-reviews official hands on we had only seen renders and heard rumors of the device. Now, today someone has leaked an official press shot and as you can see it matches up to last week’s leak. Nokia is set to kick off Nokia World on September 2nd, which is when we should get an official announcement along with specs and availability of the touchscreen phone.

[via Engadget]

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Mobile Crunch says they’ve got the scoop on Nokia’s next MID, the follow up to the N810. Called the Nokia N900 (it might also be called the “Rover”, or “Maemo Flagship”), it sports an overall smaller form factor but the same 3.5-inch touchscreen found in the N810 with a higher resolution of 800×480. Under the hood is an OMAP3430 500/600 Mhz processor and much like many of today’s handheld devices it includes an accelerometer and aGPS.

What really separates the N900 from the N810 is that this is in fact a full blown smartphone with GSM Quad-Band and WCDMA connectivity. Although their leaked documents don’t explicitly read T-Mobile they believe that the instances of “TMO” reffer to the carrier and if true mean an international launch date of July and the US following in August or September and the EU in October.

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