The N900 is slightly thinner, but a little longer and wider my N95-3. The overall volume, and corresponding pocket bulge, of the two devices is about the same. At 181 g the N900 is noticeably heavier than the the N95-3 (125 g), but close in weight to other large screened QWERTY devices like the Droid (170 g), Samsung Moment (161 g) and HTC Touch Pro2 (187 g). It’s much lighter than the N810 (226 g) or my venerable Zaurus C860 (250 g) which I still use as an on the go note taker, a role I hope the N900 can take over. The images below show the Zaurus, N900, N95-3 and sister site BoostApps.com<\/a>‘s Motorola\u00a0 i776.<\/p>\n
Nokia’s WOMworld has sent me a Nokia N900 to review. Over the next week or two, I intend to cover this groundbreaking device in depth, focusing first on the N900’s Web browsing capabilities using the built in MicroB browser plus Firefox Mobile and any other third party browsers I can find. I’m not sure how long I get to keep the N900 but if I have time I’ll also highlight Web apps that are particularly useful on the device and … Continue reading