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From: Eric L	8/20/2009 9:39:12 AM
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First Look: Nokia's Maemo Linux based RX-51 MID, aka the Nokia N900 (Rover) .... mobile-review.com Moscow's Eldar Murtazin does his thing and publishes his initial thoughts on Nokia's Maemo 5 (Freemantle) Linux OS and the 1st TI Cortex A-8 device powered by it. The article contains numerous screen shots and device photos. Eldar starts off with this sentence ... Please note - This article is nothing but our first impressions of the device and some musings about what's going to happen. Eldar closes with this paragraph ... I thought it wouldn't make much sense to go through all features of the phone just yet - I'm not lazy, I just have to leave some bread for Nokia's announcement guys! So, come back after the official release for more - we'll talk more about all feats and tricks the N900 has got under its hood. But what I can say for now is that it's the true mobile powerhouse in every sense of this word, that comes wrapped in a very eye-candy and functional UI at that. It won't become a hit, but at the same time the N900 is a milestone both for Nokia and the industry that won't just go unnoticed. The phone is supposed to hit the shelves late in 2009 and will go for 550 Euro (the price, however is subject to change). In between Eldar states ... If you are not a frequent reader of Mobile-Review.com you might ask how come Nokia decided to put aside its favorite S60 platform and switch to Maemo, which is all another way of saying that they ditched S60 for Linux OS. As most of you know, until recently Maemo has been used exclusively in pair with Internet Tablets. I'm not sure his "musings" relative to Nokia's parallel OS/middleware and UI positioning for smartphones and MIDs are totally on target although S60 will definitely go away as Nokia's high end smartphone UI but Symbian^x likely will not IMO, ... but the next 18 months will tell that story and we may get some initial clarification on how Nokia intends to position the two OSes (Symbian^x & Maemo 6 with their common Qt development framework) in their own range of smartphones and MIDs, at Nokia World 2009 on September 2 & 3 with the story unfolding further by the time the GSMA World Congress rolls around in mid-February. - Eric -

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