After eons of frustration for the N900 fans, looks like the retail units are finally up for grabs in the US and elsewhere. If you happen to be in NYC or Chicago, let me save you the drive to the flagship stores: Unless you have registered for N900 with the stores, you are not gonna be getting one off the shelf at the flagship stores yet.

If you are not on the list of the flagship stores, you gotta wait like the rest of the US for the N900s to appear on the NokiaUS store as well as other retailers (Amazon, Dell, Newegg etc). While the Nokia US online store is still showing the N900 as available for pre-order, even after 48 after official US release, Nokia Italy has gone ahead and silently released the Maemo 5 device in Italy. Kudos to Nokia Italy and by the way, I wonder when Nokia US will learn a few things from their European counterparts.  With a disastrous launch like this, no wonder Nokia has a paltry share in the American handset segment. Read the rest of this entry »

After plucking the N900 US launch news out of thin air (read Twitter) last night, I was eagerly waiting for an official announcement from Espoo side on this and looks like the tweet was right. N900 was indeed launched in the US yesterday, the 18th of November 2009, atleast thats what Nokia Conversations wants us to believe.

The official price of N900 continues to be at USD 649, which is what you have to shell out if you happen to drop by the Nokia Flagship stores in Chicago and New York. Even if you are ready to pay in cold hard cash, I doubt if you can get your hands on a retail unit yet for its been around 24 hours since the official announcement and am yet to come across an unboxing video on YouTube or even a tweet of anyone flaunting a retail unit of N900. Whats annoying is that the Nokia Conversations post claims that the device can be bought offshelf from the flagship stores and even online from NokiaUSA and other online retailers including Amazon, which unfortunately is far from reality. A click on either of these online stores, reveals that the N900 is still in pre-order mode. Read the rest of this entry »

Having sorted out ‘facebook’ing from N900 last night, it was time to check on my second favorite online activity-Tweeting. The micro-blog service of Twitter has really caught on me and I just can’t imagine a day without accessing Twitter for Twitter is my new Google for its user generated content for search phrases have that human touch to it and are updated in real time making it a far better search engine than any of the automated search engines in market today.

Whether you find Twitter as an ideal replacement for google as the search engine of choice is debatable but the addiction to Twitter is unquestionable not only for me but for millions of netizens out there, for whom tweeting is as much a part of everyday routine as brushing their teeth! How does the N900 treat the Twitter addicts like us? Let’s find out. Read the rest of this entry »

Yeah guys, you read it right, after months of delays, the Nokia has started shipping the N900 in selected regions. Nokia Conversations made the formal announcement earlier today and the entire N900 community has been bubbling with renewed interest in the first Maemo 5 device.

Looks like the earlier rumor we covered, hinting on November 14th and 16th as the launch dates in the US and UK, were true (albeit marginally) after all. The Nokia Conversations post says that the device has started shipping to Russia, Middle East, Europe and North America with no word on its availability in other regions. Read the rest of this entry »

Till we meet in November.

Sorry to break this to all those who are expecting the release of the highly anticipated Nokia N900 phone. According to Peter Schneider, head of Maemo marketing, Nokia has decided that it is moving the release of their newest handset from end of October to anytime in November 2009.

It seems that the folks of Nokia sent out 300 pre-production test units to different people all giving different feedback. Perhaps there have been some unfavorable reactions to the unit and the new Maemo operating system. Of course, we can only speculate this. Due to these reactions, they have pushed back the release date and is now making some tweaking.

I am sure many feel bad about the delay. But it is something of a welcomed disappointment. We can see that Nokia is doing its very best to make sure it will roll out their best product yet. They are gearing up to butt heads with the competition especially Apple’s iPhone.

The Nokia N900 is dubbed as “RAW COMPUTER POWER” with the description – “Experience the speed and raw power of the high-performance Nokia N900 mobile computer.” Among other things, the N900 boasts of a 3.5 inch wide screen touch display with 800 x 480 pixel  resolution, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-fi and Bluetooth, a 5-megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss optics Tessar lens with a CMOS sensor camera and other hot features.

So we need to wait another month before we get our hands on the Nokia N900. Will it be worth the wait?

The world is waiting to get its hands on the latest high technology phone to hit the market – the Nokia N900 phone. There is so much hype on this piece of hardware. And rightfully so. The features alone has made every gadget freak on the planet drool with envy. Fresh from this year’s introduction of the 5800 XpressMusic phone which carried the touch screen capabilities and accelerometer, the Nokia N900 is the culmination of months (or even years) of research.

Rumor on the internet was that the next iPhone killer contender will be released on October 19^th 2009. But as we can see this is not the case as the date is already over and there is still no sign of N900 anywhere.

However, word has it that the N900 phone should be available by the end of October 2009. Perhaps, it is being positioned nearest to December to take advantage the Christmas and gift-giving season. Not quite the gift you can get in your stockings but, if you can afford the estimate $649 price tag, why not?

As for Amazon, they have posted in their website that the Nokia N900’s availability will be on November 2, 2009. Of course, things still remain to be seen.

You have the option to pre-order from the Nokia website. Unfortunately, not all countries can do this. Only Finland (of course), France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and USA. Interestingly, there are no mention of any Asian countries which is highly loyal to Nokia products and are more open to embrace new gadgets like the N900.

When it does get released by the end of the month, let’s hope the unit lives up to the hype of being “Raw Computing Power” and not just “Raw Publicity”. After seeing the videos online, this could just be the phone that can give the Apple iPhone a run for its money (and market).

The world continues to wait.

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