Nokia N900 - A Brilliant Gadget For Technology Freaks

At the initial stage, mobile phones were supposed to be the devices just for communication. But those days are not any more. Now, it is a well-known fact that mobile phones are the multi-functional gadgets. With the passage of time, we have witnessed a lot of innovation in the arena of mobile phones. Day by day, more and more good features as well as better functionality is being offered to the users by the mobile phone brands.

Nokia is one of the big brands that is popular for its high-end handsets. The Nokia N900 is one of the handsets that is one of the most advanced mobile phones fulfilling the needs of present day tech-savvy generation. The features of this smart handset are so heart throbbing.

One of the noticeable aspect of this handset is its mammoth internal memory. The gadget has 32 GB of internal memory which is more than the total memory (internal memory plus microSD support) of several handsets. In addition to this the gadget also has a microSD card slot in which you can add the additional memory up to 16 GB and in this manner you can get the total space of 48 GB.

Camera features are supposed to be necessary in the present day multimedia gadgets. The quality of the picture depends upon the resolution of camera. The N900 comes with the brilliant 5 MP camera through which you can capture the images at the resolution of 2576 x 1936 pixels. Moreover, there are a number of additional camera features available which enhance the quality of pictures as well as images. Dual LED flash feature allows the users to take the brilliant quality pictures even in the dim light areas. Video light does the same in the case of capturing the videos. Other features of the camera include Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and geo-tagging.

Speaking abut the Internet features, the gadget is enabled with both GPRS and Wi-Fi. Through GPRS, Internet can be connected if your handset has the support of network service providers. On the other hand, Wi-Fi provides you unlimited access of Internet if you are at the Wi-Fi covered area. HTML supported browser allows you to surf the websites smartly. In addition to this, RSS reader is also available in the Nokia N900, through which you can read the RSS feeds on Internet.

In order to stay in touch with loved ones, the gadget comes embedded with the messaging features like SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email and IM. On the other hand, Skype and Google Talk VoIP integration is also available with the help of which you can talk abroad at cheap call rates.

The entertainment features of the handset include a brilliant media player, stereo FM radio with RDS and 5 interesting preloaded games. More frolics can be downloaded of you are not satisfied with preloaded games. Apart from these, TV-out can also be considered as an entertainment feature, with the help of which you can view the images and videos on the handset on your television screen.

About the physical segments of the device, it is a heavyweight devices with the weight of 181 grams and the dimensions of 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm. Moreover, it comes equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard, through which you can type the text at the faster speed as compared to the alphanumeric keypad.

There is no doubt in the fact that the Nokia N900 has a lot of such advanced features about which several individual are unaware. For sure, it is an excellent handset especially for those who like to keep a lot of modern technology in their pockets.

The end of the dream

No matter how it works out in the long run, the purchase of Symbian by Nokia marks the end of a dream -- the creation of a new independent OS company to be the mobile equivalent of Microsoft. Put a few beers into former Symbian employees and they'll get a little wistful about it, but the company they talk about most often is Psion, the PDA company that spawned Symbian.

Psion never got much attention in the US, but it was a pioneer in the PDA market in the UK, and even to this day I think the Psion Revo is one of the two coolest-looking PDAs ever made (the Palm V is the other one).


The Revo

Psion explored many ideas that eventually turned into major new consumer electronics categories, but it failed to follow up on them. The company was effectively dismembered when Symbian was formed, and many of its best people drifted off to other companies. Now Symbian itself is transitioning to something very different, with most of its people absorbed into Nokia. What the Psion veterans talk about wistfully is how many smart people worked at Psion, how many great ideas the company fumbled, and how successful many of the people have been in the tech industry post-Psion. In this sense, Psion is similar to many other tech pioneer companies that assembled staffs of very bright people, taught them how to work together, and then blew apart like exploding stars, scattering the elements of new companies across the industry. This process dates back at least to Fairchild Semiconductor, which trained the founders of many of the most prominent semiconductor companies (link). You can find similar networks of former employees from places like Apple, Netscape, and Palm. I think Yahoo is in the process of forming a network now, and some day there's going to be a dandy one made of former Googlers.

What makes the Psion story different is that many of the Psion veterans had to leave the UK, or join non-UK companies, in order to become successful. Some are in other parts of Europe, some are in the US, and some are in London but working for foreign companies. This is a source of intense frustration to the Psion folks I've talked with. They feel like not only their company failed, but their country failed to take advantage of the expertise they had built.

There's a big body of academic research on why Silicon Valley has been successful in sustaining itself, and part of the reason is that the Valley recycles companies very efficiently. Failing companies do not last long, but in the process the brightest people and ideas are rarely lost, they are just shuffled around into new configurations.

About a year ago, Andrew Orlowski of the Register wrote an amazing article on the history of Psion, and how company culture and government philosophy failed to take advantage of it to grow a new industry. It's the longest piece I've ever seen in the Register, almost the nucleus of a book, and it's well worth reading. It didn't get enough attention when it was published, and I'm embarrassed to say that I never posted a link to it. So I'm glad to remedy that now. If you want to understand the context what happened to Symbian, and learn a bit about how the tech industry works, go read it here.

If you want to hear more about what Symbian is morphing into, two of its executives have just started personal weblogs in which they are commenting on the migration to Symbian Foundation (among other things). It's an interesting move, and it seems symbolic of the transition they're trying to make into the open source world. Previously Symbian had a company blog that several execs contributed to; now the execs have personal blogs where they talk directly to the industry.

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Turn your iPhone into a remote

The developers over at Alloysoft have officially unveiled their new iTunes remote app. Signal can turn your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Pocket PC into an advanced remote control for your computer, and functionality isn’t limited to iTunes. Working on either a Mac or a PC, this program gives the user the ability to scroll through libraries and browse supported apps remotely. The following is from a MacNN report:

“Taking full advantage of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s two-way wireless capabilities, and combined with the increasing popularity of streaming solutions such as Apple’s Airport Express, Alloysoft claims that Signal is the missing link in many home juke box solutions, allowing users access to their music from anywhere within wireless range, be it “deck, patio, or any room in the house.”

Signal works in a very simple way; when you launch the computer version of the app, you are given a URL which you then put in to MobileSafari and voilà!. You can now have full control over your music from anywhere within Wifi range!