The much publicized Nokia N900 is now finally available in the US after being delayed by a month. The Nokia N900 is retailing for $649 and should be available by now in Nokia flagship stores in Chicago and New York. Nokia USA, for their part, still has this baby on a pre-order status.
For online shoppers looking for the best deal on this phone, you might want to check out Amazon as they’re also offering this new Nokia QWERTY-equipped cell phone for just $559.99 courtesy of a $50 mail-in rebate. As a quick refresher, the Nokia N900 boasts of a 3.5-inch 800×480 WVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, 10Mbps HSDPA connectivity, GPS, 3.5mm jack, and runs on the new Maemo 5 platform. No carrier has been reported to have picked this new Nokia phone up as part of their holiday line-up. You can read the full press release here.
In related news, Nokia has also released a statement addressing the confusion regarding their newly released Maemo 5 OS and Symbian platform. Rumors started floating around that the Finnish phone maker will be giving Symbian the axe in favor of Maemo similar to the case involving Samsung and their homegrown Bada OS. Here’s what Nokia had to say about those rumors as posted by The Nokia Blog:
While it is our policy not to disclose details of our product roadmap, we’d like to explicitly communicate that we remain firmly committed to Symbian as our smartphone platform of choice. Any speculation on what our 2012 roadmap, including operating systems and product branding, are completely premature.
As we have stated earlier, Nokia has multiple platforms to serve different purposes and address different markets. Symbian is more successful than ever in bringing smartphones to the masses. Maemo is our software of choice for devices based on technology that you’d typically find inside a desktop computer. It delivers a different user experience and enables us to widen the market we can address.
So again, there’s no truth to the untimely demise of the Symbian platform. We are hoping though that Nokia gets the message through these rumors they really need to do something drastic with their Symbian OS so as to make it more competitive with the likes of Android and the mobile Mac OS on the iPhone. As for the here and now, Symbian will still be in the picture and will co-exist with Maemo.
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