Nokia’s N900 looks very similar to the N97. The real differences are below the hood – while the N97 runs Symbian, the N900 is powered by a Linux-derived operating system called Maemo.
Maemo has not had phone functionality so far: the N900 is the first-ever Maemo phone. This obviously makes room for interesting speculation on the quality of the UI…
Eldar Murtasin from mobile-review has sat down to create one of his usual, ultra-long reviews…and ended up pretty impressed with the platform. Of course, this being a v1 release, some eekers like the one below remain:
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Unfortunately the fact that Internet Tablets developed more as mobile computers rather than cell phones didn’t allow Nokia to implement the portrait screen setup for the vast majority of features and applications, including the browser and this is a huge drawback. Most mobile devices allow seamless screen rotation and gesture-based navigation, whereas Maemo can only offer landscape orientation, which isn’t a bad thing in itself, but can easily make the browsing experience awkward at times.
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Further information can be had at the URL below:
http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-maemo5-en.shtml
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