Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers to all those who pre-ordered it. The N900 will be available through Nokia’s flagship stores in New York and Chicago or online. The Maemo 5 smartphone for the official price is $649. Maemo software is based on an open source platform and allows for a variety of different applications to be developed – from home brew to commercial and everything in between; such as podcasting, Twitter and instant messaging applications
Main features include: Linux-based Maemo operating platform, 3G data networks, 32GB of storage, multitask several applications or web browsers at once, watch Flash videos and access the web thanks to the awesome support for Adobe Flash 9.4 and gesture support within the Nokia N900 web browser, 3.5-inch touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard, 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a dual LED flash and so much more.
For more information on how to develop for Nokia N900 and Maemo, please visit http://forum.nokia.com
