Nokia announced today that the Maemo-based Nokia N900 has now begun to ship. It should be in stores in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and North America shortly. No reason was given to explain the shipping delays.
The Nokia N900 is powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 processor (with OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration) and the new Maemo 5. It comes with quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and tri-band (900/1700/2100MHz) HSPA connectivity, a 3.5-inch WVGA resistive touchscreen display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 1GB of application memory and 32GB of storage, integrated GPS with A-GPS, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, a 5MP camera with dual-LED and auto-focus, an integrated FM radio, a microSD card slot, and a 1320mAh battery.
The Nokia N900 will sell for about €500 (about US$750) before taxes and subsidies.