The packaging from the Nokia N900 is comparable to that in the Nokia N97. The matte black packaging shows the new Nokia smartphone, cloqué like. There aren't any additional photos in addition to the kind name. Upon opening, we discover the Nokia N900 straight away. Furthermore, numerous various common accessories are incorporated, like a headset, a information cable, a charger, a video-out cable and also the manuals.

While using implementation in the Nokia N900 Maemo Five, the menu framework is entirely new, meaning it takes time to get used to. Following startup, there are numerous of home screens to the user to scroll by way of. Widgets, average shortcuts or contacts could be extra to a home display. This framework is observed on a number of mobile or portable phones nowadays and is really convenient. It enables you to create your own user environment, containing every thing which is essential to you, in an easy way.

Mobile running systems play an increasingly more essential role when selecting a new portable phone. In addition to the style as well as the speed, many of its functionalities strongly depend about the phone’s running method. Particularly because the introduction of the Apple iPhone, it has become essentially impossible to complete without easy to install job applications when personalizing a mobile or portable telephone. With the arrival of Google Android, which has quickly grow to be a regular inside mobile or portable telephony, and which is now used by numerous smartphone manufacturers, the competition has also increased. Nokia usually uses the Symbian OS for high-end portable phones. Symbian allows installing applications, as well as managing your agenda and email account is easy and straightforward. Apart from Symbian, Nokia also utilizes a more developed Open up Supply working system, the Linux-based Maemo. The Nokia N900 could be the initial telephone to utilize this running system, where it's called Maemo Five. This can be a entirely new encounter to the user.

The Maemo 5 menu of the Nokia N900 consists of 15 icons. Thanks towards the numerous layers, it's graphically extremely neatly organized. Particularly using the clear overview in the wide open plans, the use is very similar to utilizing a desktop PC. Also, all of the settings are nicely grouped together. And again, it requires time to get used to, although playing with it for a while will show you the way pretty quickly. Obviously, it has been extremely well thought-through.

Upon opening the Internet browser in the main menu, you'll access a good listing of bookmarks. These are accompanied by a screenshot. At the end, the address bar is observed to insert characters using the keyboard. The Internet browser is easily, all pages are displayed correctly. Even flash internet sites are well-rendered on the Nokia N900. Connecting to Wi-Fi happens smoothly, the same as searching for obtainable networks. As well as the Wi-Fi connection, also a fast HSDPA connection is enabled. E-mail is simple to set up, right after choosing a country, a big listing of ISPs seems, that are set up by default. It is then simply a matter of entering the login data. In addition to this installation assistance, the Nokia N900 also supports Exchange. Thanks for the full QWERTY keyboard, you'll be able to sort longer messages without a issue.

The Nokia N900 features an integrated digital camera with Carl Zeiss lens and a resolution of 5. megapixels. The camera practical application begins automatically the moment the lens include opens. The practical application starts up really swiftly, to ensure that you can rapidly capture that one moment. In case the lens cover is already wide open but the practical application is deactivated, you can also activate it through the shutter release button or by picking 'camera' in the menu. Right after start-up, two black bars look on each sides alongside the viewfinder. The proper bar contains the icons to the settings.

The bar alongside the viewfinder offers admittance towards the adjustments. There are four icons which represent the recording mode, the flash, the settings and also the captured pictures; therefore enabling effortless adjustment of the shooting mode and flash settings.