Nokia N900

The N900 is the first Maemo device which may also be utilized as phone.

Contents

Features

Battery

BL-5J 3.7V Li-Ion 1320 mAh . See this thread for reported usage

Camera Stills

Camera Resolutions: 5 mega-pixel (2584x1938 pixels),3.5 mega-pixel 1920x1080

Lens : Carl Zeiss optics ,Tessar, with Lens Cover 5.2mm focal length, f/2.8, fixed aperture, focus 10cm to infinity

Sensor cmos 1/2.5" 31.2mm focal length (35mm terminology)

3X Digital Zoom

Flash :Dual LED

Camera Application

This application only works in Landscape

Feature Options
Capture Modes Automatic, Macro, Portrait, Action
Edit Options Crop, Rotate
Exposure Options Automatic, ISO 100, 200,400
Flash Mode Automatic, Red Eye reduction, Always Off,Always On
White Balance Automatic, Sunny,Cloudy,Tungsten, Fluorescent

Sample pictures are available from the Flickr N900 Group here

Camera Video

Video Recording WVGA 848x480 25fps,4X digital video zoom, autofocus

Video Recording Formats mpeg4

Connectivity

Feature Capability
Audio/Video Out Nokia AV 3.5mm inc TV Out (included cable CA-75U)
Bluetooth V2.1 +EDR with Following profiles A2DP,AVRCP,FTP,HFP,HSP,OPP (DUN PAN HID [via customization] )
FM Receiver RDS, US/EU/Japan bands
FM Transmitter
GSM Quad-band EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
GPS
Infra Red Port Community support of CIR from Irrecco project
WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
Micro USB (NO usb host or OTG) USB 2.0 ,USB Mass Storage,USB Charging
WiFi 802.11 b/g :WEP,WPA,WPA2 (AES/TKIP), UPnP, DLNA Certification

Memory

Maximun built in user storage 32GB

System memory 1GB (256MB SDRAM plus 768MB virtual NAND)

Application memory 1GB see the page on [using /Opt for Applications]

Micro SD slot for up-to 16GB additional

Media player can use both internal 32GB and micro SD card as storage


Devices information

(Based in the pre-production n900 device

Device Model (Manufacturer) Description Driver License
Flash Torch ADP1653 (Analog Devices)
Autofocus Zoom AD5820 (Analog Devices)
LCD Panel ACX565AKM (Sony)
LED Controller LP5523
GPU SGX 530 (Imagination Technologies)
Touch Screen Controller tsc 2005
Microprocessor OMAP3430 [1] (Texas Instruments)
Power management/I2C TWL4030 (Texas Instruments)
WiFi Card WL1251 (Texas Instruments)
Bluetooth BCM2048 [2] (Broadcom)
FM Radio Si4713 (Silicon Labs)
Stereo Headphone Amplifier TPA6130a2 (Texas Instruments)
Digital Audio Data Serial Interface TLV320AIC3x
Camara Sensor ET8EK8 (Toshiba)
VGA Camara module VS6555 (ST Microelectronics)


For those that want to hack the drivers for the hardware the source code of Maemo Kernel could be download here:

http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/k/kernel/kernel_2.6.28.orig.tar.gz

WARNING: so far Nokia has not released flashable images, so if you screw up the device it becomes unusable until the moment Nokia releases an image.


See also: Nokia N900 article on Wikipedia