With the recent rumor offering up hope that the Nokia N900 will still be landing on Magenta in early 2010, the N900 has showed itself at the Maemo Summit currently taking place. If you weren’t one of the lucky ones able to attend it, (don’t worry we didn’t either), thankfully the action was caught on video. This video focuses on the device’s 3D gaming capabilities and a demonstration playing YouTube videos in the Mozilla-based web browser. While we hope the expected release date comes to fruition, enjoy this video and don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments!
UPDATE: We understand that the N900 is not official yet for any carrier, I have updated to the post to reflect that info! David
Still waiting impatienly for the Nokia N900? With the recent Holiday offers T-Mobile has in store for us, the N900 was surprisingly not one of them. While we continue to wait, let us drool over some N900 videos. This video released by Nokia themselves shows an in-depth look at the Mozilla-based web browser on a beautiful touchscreen with an 800 x 480 resolution. Enjoy the six minutes of drooling (Please try to keep it in your mouth). Don’t forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments!
One of the most frustrating things about a new a phone purchase is the seemingly unlimited methods in which a carrier can screw up a device with their own add-ons. Just ask unlocked users of the Nokia E71 and AT&T buyers of the E71x what kind of a difference unbranded phones can make! With this in mind, Nokia is following in the footsteps of Google and Apple in seizing control of the user experience with Maemo by not allowing any carrier customizations. With the N900 on the hopeful T-mobile horizon, we can only be thankful not to endure the endless barrage of magenta interface “enhancements.” Now T-mobile might be better than others (again, just ask E71x users) but Apple and Google have shown that a carrier-free UI has almost no downside. As Engadget points out, carrier subsidies are necessary to bring the price down to a point where the everyman can buy a device, but if Apple, Google and Palm have taught us anything in the last year, it’s that even without carrier customization, the carrier still wins.
