I use my Nokia N800 as a surfboard before sleeping. It gives me my final dose of internet before I doze off. It’s not a phone, though and it can be a little slow sometimes. I also miss a physical keyboard and in order to replace my phone it would have to smaller.
Enter the N900.
By the looks of it it fixes all my issues above and may turn out to be the best phone Nokia has ever released.
The one thing that nags me a little bit is the fact that is’s based on Maemo, the linux phone OS initiated by Nokia. While this seemed like a bold move when the N770 and N800 came out, today there are other alternatives. Or will Maemo, Android and iPhone all be the platforms that the mobile infrastructure of the future is built on?
Maybe the mobile OS doesn’t matter at all as long as there as a compatible browser? On the other hand, browsers are also platforms and on the PC there are still huge fragmentation problems when it comes to browsers.
It will take a long time before the dust settles on this platform battle, that’s for sure.
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