Shipments of Nokia N900 has begun

Shipment of the Nokia N900 series which happens to be the latest version of the mobile based computer on open source Maemo 5 software has begun. The Nokia N900 will be available in stores this month been November 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 500 ($750) excluding subsidies and sales tax.
The Vice president of Nokia N series, Jose-Luis Martinez, says “The N900 has generated a lot of interest since its public launch in August, which has been reflected in the device preorders. What is exciting is the Maemo software, which takes its cues from the desktop computer and offers a full browsing experience like no other handset. We believe the Nokia N900 will be a very compelling device for people who are passionate about technology”.
Nokia had lent out 300 pre-production units of the N900 to the open source community in the Maemo Summit in October to get more feedback from the community so as to enable them provide the best user experience with this device. The N900 is known to be Nokia’s first mobile phone product to run on Linux software.
The Nokia N900 offers a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor and up to 1GB of application memory. It offers users the opportunity of surfing the web as they would have done using any computer and keep application windows open simultaneously on the dashboard. It also holds a 32GB in bit storage to hold quite a number of songs or 40 hours of DVD-quality video. The memory can as well be extended up to 48GB with an external microSD card. It comes with a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera which automatically shows pictures and videos where they were taken.
The Nokia N900 will be initially available in Europe, Russia, North America and Middle-East.