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N900 Competition – LG GW620

N900 Competition – LG GW620
In the series of potential Nokia N900 competition, next candidate is the LG GW620 which was launched yesteday. It’s LG’s first Android phone and follows the unfortunate path of not-so-interesting Android releases coming from many companies lately (like the Motorola Cliq). Hardware specifications...
September 15th, 2009 | Hardware | Read More

N900 Competition – Motorola Cliq

N900 Competition – Motorola Cliq
Motorola introduced their first Android-based device, Motorola Cliq today. Company has been on downward spiral for long time in the mobile market, last really successful product being the Razr from years past. Now Motorola is attempting to renew some interest from the buying public by imitating the likes...
September 10th, 2009 | Hardware, News | Read More

N900 Competition – HTC Touch Pro2

N900 Competition – HTC Touch Pro2
I continue from my N900 vs. Samsung Omnia Pro article today with a similar look & comparison mostly on the specification level with HTC Touch Pro2 (T7373). Seems that ‘Pro’ is in high demand for these kinds of products names, maybe N900 should have been called ‘N900 Pro’...
September 10th, 2009 | Hardware, News | Read More

N900 Competition – Samsung Omnia Pro

N900 Competition – Samsung Omnia Pro
October 2009 is going to be hot month for new qwerty smartphones or should I say mobile computers. There are several devices that are coming in that time frame which have very similar external look and feel – N900 style big touch screen and slide-out qwerty keyboard. One of these is Samsung Omnia...
September 9th, 2009 | Hardware, News | Read More

N900 vs iPhone 3GS TCO Calculation

N900 vs iPhone 3GS TCO Calculation
Update 8th Sep 2009: I missed that you can indeed nowadays get from Sonera Finland iPhone with one time payment but still need to lock-in to some plan for min. 12 months, other choice is 24 months. iPhone 3GS 32GB model with 2 year lock-in is 528 euros. So from this perspective iPhone can be cheaper...
September 8th, 2009 | Hardware | Read More

N900’s OMAP 3430 Processor with ARM Cortex-A8 Intro

N900’s OMAP 3430 Processor with ARM Cortex-A8 Intro
Nokia’s N900 has powerful ARM based CPU as its heart. This is newish ARM Cortex-A8 inside OMAP 3430 processor, more on that OMAP later. ARM (Holdings) is fairly old CPU centric company from Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, established in 1990 and public company traded for example in London Stock...
September 3rd, 2009 | Hardware, N900, News | Read More

N900 vs. iPhone 3GS 32 GB Specification Wise

N900 vs. iPhone 3GS 32 GB Specification Wise
Update Sep 9th 2009: iPhone 3G S seems to have 1219 mAh battery. Some sources say 1250 mAh. Palm Pre has 1150 mAh and same TI OMAP 3430 processor as N900 so with 1320 mAh it should do OK, not great though with big screen like that and lot of multitasking. It occurred to me that N900 is on some aspects...
September 2nd, 2009 | Hardware | Read More

N900 Battery Capacity Questions

N900 Battery Capacity Questions
Many have noticed that Nokia N900 comes with a smaller battery capacity (1320 mAh) as its predecessor N810 (had 1500 mAh). Since N900 has larger screen resolution wise, much faster processor with 3D acceleration and lot of capabilities and real life use cases for heavy multitasking – how long will...
September 2nd, 2009 | Hardware | Read More