Nokia N900 in 2022 | Nostalgia & Features Rediscovered!
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- In this video, I cover one of the most futuristic devices from Nokia which was released back in 2009, the Nokia N900. The N900 ran on Maemo 5 OS, t Linux based spiritual predecessor of MeeGo Harmattan on the Nokia N9. The N900 was the final Nokia Internet Tablet. The video talks about all the N900's features, specifications, hardware design, Maemo 5 software, and its features, as well as the negatives for that time period.
00:00 - Introduction
00:54 - Hardware Features
03:17 - Maemo Software Features
05:22 - Weakness
06:23 - Final Thoughts
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Out of every retro Nokia I've done so far, this impressed me the most. It's OS was so futuristic, almost hard to believe it came out in 2009!
Definitely way ahead of its time.
One of my desired devices. I still have it on Flipkart wishlist even though it was discontinued ages ago 😂😂. Really wish I had got to experience this.
Do a video on the Nokia c5 06
I owned it and was using till 2014 ...awesome camera, more space 64 gb , multitasking , Kick stand, sliding keyboard qwerty, etc was the features which makes that device a gr8 device...
Meanwhile iOS plebs still can't place apps & widgets wherever they want, lol
This also had a fm transmitter which came in handy for cars without aux
Yep, Nokia N8 has it too.
Yep, Nokia X7-00 has it too.
Most old Nokia phones (like x6 x2) had an fm transmitter. Even iPhones (before 8) has fm.
iPhones used to have a radio app. But newer iPhones removed it.
I have a 6s plus and I can use my earphones to listen to fm and am stations. Digital stations don’t work tho
This is my baby , the most complete phone ever made , it's linux based and totally customizable , it has IR ,radio transmitter and hotspotwifi ,it has also dlna and WiFi direct , it has even a terminal to be used as a pc based on debian systems . It can be connected via video and audio to the tv .. the most ambitious thing is to upgrade python 2 to python3 which will make the phone immortal .. weaknesses are small capacity battery but you must know there s a higher capacity battery 2200 mah and for the weak charging port you must either weld it or taking very care of it ..
This phone if it had 808 camera it could be the best phone ever made and no phone will even be close to it
TECHNICALLY you could get the 808's camera on there and working thanks to the linux and if you side loaded the 808's OS onto it, the real challenge would be coming up with a redesign for the phone so that you could keep all the internals while also being able to strap on the 808's camera. Which I mean realistically speaking isn't impossible, then 3D print a replacement body and assemble he thing after stripping an 808 of it's camera and housing and popping it on.
Cross breeding phones to make hybrids usually only has ONE obstacle that keeps it from happening and that's lacking the coding required because you'd basically have to write an entire new wing of code for whatever you're putting the pieces onto AND it would have to play nice with the current code of the main phone being used. But if you're going to side load the 808 onto the N900 then you technically don't have an issue, the power of linux is infinite
This is why the Fairphone project is actually an obtainable goal if the team dedicated itself to being almost exclusively programmers and engineers as they'd be able to slowly integrate code for parts of many former phones allowing pure franksteining. But they are far more focused on the hippy aspect of it plus I am quite sure the CCP would raid their offices as it would absolutely collapse their business model
It also had remote locking, remote wipe, storage encryption.
Everything that we now NEED in order for our lives not to get ruined, if you lose your phone haha!
I still can't believe just how far ahead this phone/thing actually was. Nokia are so stupid not just ditching Symbian way earlier - it clearly wasn't good enough.
Hi, where i can find this 2200 maH batery? Thanks a lot
@@manueldom4364 on e bay but I think they discontinued it
I had this. In fact I still have one. Removable battery makes it easy to maintain a retro device. This was really a phone that made me feel like I am living in the future. A full fat linux desktop in my pocket. At all times with me. That small stand I still wish modern phones had, that keyboard, the feeling thet you can do whatever you want on this device, just like on a desktop... I used linux on my desktop at the time too. And the not so rosy memories: Nokia notoriously always put half the amount of RAM in any device they created than what would have been fine. So the N900 has to use the swap a lot. I would have gladly exhanged 16GB of the eMMC to another 256MB of RAM. And let's be honest, the phone functions were just an afterthought on the N900 and therefore pretty terrible. I held out with CSSU for as long as I could, but it was stolen from me in 2012 so I had to go Android. It felt like such a downgrade after Maemo. Last year I bought a pair of broken N900 and frankenseined myself a working one. I loaded back my decade old "dd" backup and it booted right back where I left off so many years ago.
that feeling when you get to relieve all that nostalgia , dayumm 😌
I still have mine from 2009. Perfect condition, still gets used from time to time. The N900 was way ahead of its time in some respects. Best phone I ever had!
do you have any way to formate it today i have one also from 2009
@@Libturk - I honestly wouldn't know! I haven't done anything with mine for a while now, but there are dedicated communities out there... it should be as easy as hooking up to a PC via USB and formatting it with some community software freely available on the web!
@@Libturkby command line flasher-3.5 -F imagename -f -R with maemo flasher after following for dfu mode.
its amazing that there is a community to help make the N900 somewhat usable in 2021, and also develop the next version of Maemo called Maemo Laste!
Thanks for the information, didn’t know about this.
Just check it and it actually Maemo Leste.
I had a Nokia N900 i absolutely loved it being a linux nerd myself, you forgot to mention the radio transmitter which was a killer feature for me broadcasting music on 90Mhz. No phone will ever come close the N900 before or after it, it was one in a lifetime phones.
I had it too before I switched to N9. It was absolutely the best at the time. A linux computer in your pocked.
@@buak I was let down with the N9 but suppose it showed the state of nokia at the time, hence why it went under.
N900 was such a holy grail of what Nokia as a brand could of become. Unfortunately the charging port was a known flaw how it would snap off.
Indeed I faced this problem and repaired it several times
The ARM Cortex-A8 on the N900 was clocked at 600Mhz, but depending on the chip you got you could do a software overclock up to about 1.2Ghz. I ran mine at 900Mhz and it was totally stable. Being able to increase clock speed by 50% with a simple "sudo kernel-config limits 250 900 " was just an amazing thing to be able to do.
Weren't you worried about spiked software or bricking your phone?
What about overheating the CPU or battery life?
WHOA! My trip down memory lane continues with your videos. I remember using both the N900 and the N9 with such hope that Nokia could make a comeback and perform alongside Android and iOS. It was such a shame that neither Maemo or MeeGo would succeed.
SO MUCH NOSTALGIA... LOVE FROM BANGLADESH ❤🇧🇩❤
I have 2 Nokia n900.One new in box and One used.
This device was amazing back then and so ahead of its time. There was a third party camera app that made the functionality much better. I looked at a couple of photos taken with it recently and they still hold up.
This was my favorite phone I ever owned and capture such a period of time in my life. I was working a dead end retail job so the ability to prop it up on the counter and watch videos was wonderful. Also the keyboard was amazing and I loved messaging friends on it. You also didn't mention the TV out feature which I loved because I was heavily into obscure movies which I would download and take to friends.
Those sliding sounds are full of Nostalgia.
Still remember having this phone back in 2010, it was a beast of a phone. So sad Nokia didn’t had the vision to keep that line of phones.
I still use it till now my friend with a lot of customized stuff..
This phone had functions that were way ahead time. I think it will be a forever favourite phone for everyone who owned. It was that special.
And than there goes the sad Nokia story...
Damn that's a hell of a time travel you are upto.... It's so amazing... Keep up the excellency... In love with your channel...
Thank you :D
I was looking for your video on the n900! Out of every phone I have ever had, I look back on this one and wish that I had an equivalent. I got it 2 years after release and the thing was insane! the multitasking was next level and all the features, FM transmitter was crazy! I even had android 2.3 dual booting!
You know after all Nokia phone's I got in my life and they are so many I memories all of the models the N900 was the best of the best it wasn't even sold in my country I got from a traveler fir about 500$ at the time but it had Nokia care world wide if just nokia stand behind it there were never be an android but is at said the bigger they are the harder they fall
What. A. Device.
This was my final Nokia handset (upgraded from N97), before I (begrudgingly) made the switch to iPhone, couldn't resist the allure of the app store. I also remember dropping and breaking my N900 within the first week of purchasing it :( Managed to get it fixed. The multitasking on this device was awesome.
Interestingly, I found my old Nokia 770 at home yesterday. This was a precursor to the N900. There's a short video on my channel of me booting it up.
sadly I couldn't upgrade to this from my N97, which was much nicer to look at but a lot worse to use. :(
Yes, the 770, and the 800 were both very neat! Can't believe Nokia didnt pay more attention to this over Symbian when it was clearly on a whole different level.
This was my first cellular device. It has some features that I have never been happier with in other phones, such as the keyboard. The USB was indeed an Achilles heel. Was the death of mine. Otherwise the heavy thing was built tough. Dropped accidentally many times from various heights which it did survive without a scratch.
I had this phone back in college and i loved it so much!! For me there was not a single downside to this phone. And I bought something called a game gripper that was placed directly on the keyboard so it actually made it a perfect emulator. It was amazing! I actually had friends fighting me to play it lol it was a phenomenal device
Sounds like good times :)
Great videos. Great content. Great channel.
I had this. I just loved it. I felt I should have shifted to Computer Engineering, but ended up doing Industrial Engineering. I overclocked the processor which affected the phone, and Nokia gave me a Nokia N8 as a replacement.
Cool video!!!
Had it, loved it!
I still have this phone after more than 12 years now. Still the best multitasking there is in a phone and all that with only 256mb of ram. I said the moment when this phone came out, if Nokia doesn't further develop this killer OS, there will be gone and so it was, sad. It killed iOS and Android, it literally still does at multitasking.
If you still use it; how can you simplify it, just make it a "suckless" terminal?
Bought that when it came and still have it and works :D Ofc its not in everyday use anymore. Nice video.
Love these videos and a reminder of all these great Nokia devices. Hey look there were great devices even before 2015…which apparently a lot of people think is when the “real” smartphones came on the market….LOL…Keep these videos coming! Looking forward to your on-hand review of the Nokia XR-20!
Thank you for reviewing n900, which i requested you few days ago... what an amazing yet flopped phone. i had one for years, until the micro usb port snapped off. In 2009, this was sort of a micro laptop, with its native terminal console and much more. nokia could have kept developing this model. missed opportunity!. great review though!
I actually had the prototype of the n950 which ran meego and had a keyboard. It was going to be the n900 successor. That was one the best devices that never made it to market
Words cannot describe how jealous I am right now :)
I had this in daily use 2009-2011, loved it. Then got N9 and later 2012 Samsung Galaxy S4... BTW, did you mention that N900 had composite tv-out from the headphone jack?
That was a cool feature for sure :) That an FM transmitter too, but the video was already becoming too long haha.
Good review
I have one and it works. What a beauty!
The built in kickstand has me absolutely mesmerized. It may be flimsy but take care of your phone and the option of it is there. This is why I ised to love Nokia phones. I remember my Nokia Pryzm and it had a joystick navigator, I felt like a badass with it in school😭
I still have the phone with me FM transmitter... Tv cable to directly connect to television to watch movies ... Command line to linux... Infrared sensor for remote control.... Which can be used with unvercial remote control to use for Air conditioner, television, music systems etc. This is the only phone I was looking for an upgrade ... I didn't upgrade to next phone until my screen broke for n900 and I have still kept my phone in the showcase.... Beast with all technology in one phone .... Really wish this kind of tech comes again ... There was no need for a cover also ... It falls but nothing happens... Screen also broke because of my carelessness ... It fell from 1st floor but nothing happen it was that kind of a phone
Abdulla I actually just by your videos got interrested in Windows phones recently I just bought a lumia 950xl on ebay :) Love your videos, keep up the good work oh forgot to mention i had a N9 back in the day I wanted the N900 but only got a N9
I'm glad to hear my passion for these phones is convincing people to try stuff they might have missed! N9 of course remains in a class of its own for me, hence it being featured in 3 videos already haha
Bought it in 2009 when I was learning linux, and I felt this is a package of linux
Since it was so easily modifiable, I managed to get mine to have portrait mode, loved this phone. Its display was really bad, the touch screen would sometimes just die for no reason, without dropping or exposing to water, had to get several screen replacements.
Nostalgic indeed. The stealth black brick of a device with a sexy sliding keyboard. The only problem for me was its battery life. With its capabilities, I couldn't keep it away hence the battery drain.
Thanks for this video MrNokia
I distinctively remember when the software experience on Nokia smartphones used to be so cool for its time. Good old nostalgia.
I'm a proud user of Nokia 6.1 Plus since 2019. It's sad that Nokia hasn't released any genuinely good smartphones in quite a while, atleast here in India.
I'm using the 6.1 plus too. It's a good phone. The only problem is the fragile USB-C port.
Nokia 7.2
Yeah my Nokia 7 plus was good but the USB C port was fragile
The ssh X11 forwarding was very very powerful, you could open apps that ran on your Linux Mint beefy computer without additional apps.
Yes a Video on the N900
This phone was my dream back then, phone back then were so interesting unlike boring phones these days
I remember having good memories with my Nokia N900 in early 2010 during my uni years. Had to use the global firmware instead of the UK firmware as that really improved my battery life back then plus overlocking the CPU slightly, really sped up multitasking for me with more than 6 apps. I loved the interface,keyboard and integrated stylus. I wish Nokia still made phones like this with a more modern OS today.
2:52 I think you meant OMAP 3. Many Symbian phones used TI OMAP 1510, 1710 and 2420. The previous Internet Tablets used OMAP 1710 (Nokia 770) and OMAP 2420 (N800 and N810)
Yes, you're right thanks for the correction :)
Best phone I've ever owned. Currently using an s22 and it's.... Just.... A phone. The n900 felt like so much more!
It was resistive touch, you could twirl zoom, it had AV connectors to connect to a TV to watch whatever was on your phone... On the TV. I knew two people who had that phone, they got it because I suggested it. I had an E63 at the time
Man this was my fave. I was the only one using these back in my campus during my first year degree. Tried to install android using this. Was typing in class for notes and sending it to my laptop in my dorm room. My lecturer was angry assuming i was playing on my phone.
You could also unlock the device with the power button. I remember using the 32GB as ram with the coding written for it in Meamo store. Actually there was a portrait software update late in the phone's cycle. It didn't work to well, but it was there.
Phone with command line, hw keyboard, hackable, ssh server, tv ir remote, swap file on sd card, sip voip,....
Love it
Pretty neat!!!
I remembered the days when my dad bought one and a pair of Bluetooth neckband nokia bh505 back in 2009....
Those days were amazing....
0:50 Nostalgic startup sound
I still have mine.. and I'm still in love by this mobile
Still have mine and always was a device ahead of its time....very impressive device
i would totally buy one of those if they had access to internet as the currently phones does. it’s the phone of my dreams
I used to have one n900 back then and an n810, I just used to love it. I remember developing games with python and pygame during my travels, and was a blast. Also drawing with that thing was amazing. I know there is a bunch of smart phones, but none of them left me a flexibility and great impression like that device. I miss it a lot.
Had this phone way 2010. The stylus is so dope to use 🥰🥰🥰
I had one of these...amazing device
luckily, still have this masterpiece :)
Still the best and most capable phone I ever owned. It makes me sad every time I want to do anything advanced in todays mainstream phones.
The community was awesome as well. You could boot Android if you really wanted as well.
Another cool feature was it could hook up to a TV via RCA cables.
Excelente equipo !!!!!
it has been my favourite device till now
I rooted my nokia n900 than it rotated it to portrait mode
Also the multitasking view was resizable
I played TEKEEN 3 in My n900
It was also had front camera but only for video call not for selfie
It also had infrared sensor hardware but it was not available at software
0:50 That was sooo satisfying... :)
I had this phone and it was awesome using it, camera was good, some os customization and can even run commands
Lots of memories are associated with this beast.
I fondly remember those days when I used one of these baddies to hack Encom OS-12, with Daft Punk's music playing in the background, that was fun.
Oh I miss my N900. I upgraded mine by finding a 2200mah LiPo battery, overclocking the CPU to 1ghz and swapping the charge port to USB. This thing was so feature packed and amazing for the time.
I had this ,flashed Android on this at that time. Most versatile phone ever ❤
One of the best phones ive ever had, really regret letting it go back then.
Am using it as a second device for daily use.
used to own one of those back in 2010, not that user friendly, but very quirky. Thats why I bought it. Still kinda miss the phone, it was able to flash android os in it.
I miss my n900 dearly. The camera was great.
I had it, and I still love its design
Vraiment nostalgique. Nokia, ma marque de téléphone préférée à l'époque et Nokia N900 mon dernier téléphone de la marque que j'ai utilisé jusqu'en 2013 avant de passer, contre ma volonté, chez Samsung car je sentais que ma marque Nokia adorée se faisait pour la première fois devancer définitivement par Android.
Nokia 3250, Nokia E52, Nokia E75, Nokia N95, Nokia N900. J'ai vraiment kiffé les utiliser. J'aimerais m'acheter un Nokia N95 en 2023 juste pour la nostalgie
i had a lot of fun with this phone, mostly messin with the os, overclocking, diy themes, strange apps. this phone could do everything.
Hopefully reviewing all retro nokia phone
I enjoyed having one but i guess the weight played a role for me to give it up that time. Also had the N97
I installed android in my n900 as dual boot. it was an awesome device. It was a the real anser to android and Iphone but Nokia at that time was a divided company with most people working on more popular symbian OS and Maemo was originally just an answer to hte android coliation that smaller companies like samsung, motorolla and htc joined but Nokia rejected becasue they has in house capability of developing OS. And honestly, they were right, but not the Symbian but Maemoo/Meego. The internal conflict made it very difficult tu go with Maemo/Meego OS and this end up the biggest mistake of Nokia. I mean at the time of release of N8, Maemo/Meego was quite okay function and could compter with android but symbian teams did not care. I have used all of these devices, N97, N900, N8. N8 had a camera that was on par with phones up until 2016 if it has meamo OS it would have killed Android. Afterwards I used few HTC phones , horrible exp, s1 was bullshit. The first really good Galaxy was s2, I used it for the longest time.
Compleeeeeeeetly agree
Where do you live man. How can you import that many nokia phones?
BTW great work and dedication 👏
First OMAP processor was on Nokia 9500 (2004)
It is a phone that was unmatched up till today, imho, look at what this phone had and how much other similar approach of other companies are suffering to deliver that satisfying feeling to bring back Linux experience on a phone, frankly I had one which its screen died and today am bargaining on a used working one, probably my best choices today would be either the n900 or the pinephone, I wish I can get both tbh, but that's a bit hard in the time been maybe in the near future...
Still have it, but USB port failed (design flaw).
It was great as a ultra mobile PC (browsing, hacking, network debugging), but failed me many times as a phone. You could easily push that multitasking a bit too far, so incoming call would be displayed with 30s-1min delay or just a black screen.
It could have been great ecosystem if Nokia pushed Maemo/Meego earlier and harder (instead of aging Symbian).
I think this was the best phone i ever have had. Ofcourse considering it for the time. The charger slot got broken and they give me N8 in return from insurance, i was so pissed off, that N8 was a dogshit. Is really a shame nokia didnt realize how good this OS was at the time. It was so open and flexible i felt like it could do almost everything just like a PC but on your phone. The size wasnt a problem for me and i even liked the physical keyboard. This phone was just awesome. The problems as we all know was the weak charger usb slot and quite weak battery, imagine they being fixed and phone further developed. Great vid!
Thanks! You know what is so amazing about getting to try these phones today is that some of them hold up quite well. The OS on the N900 holds up nicely. That tells you how great it was for its time.
I quite agree. The calendar and conversations applications were excellent and using SQLite3 databases. I used to write shell scripts to query the databases, format them with html tags and load up the page in the default web browser.
Then there was the mail application called modest. You could download your mail and using a combination of the application and the terminal copy files between mail accounts if necessary. That sort of feature only exists on a desktop mail client.
Nokia really should have continued to build on it. There is no way I would be using Android if Nokia had continued with their Maemo 5 smartphones.
gosh this phone brings good memories
Turns out mine still working. You remind me that I still have this lol
I had one... Pure beast
I just remember back then reading about this device was being launched when Nokia had it's peak of the mayhem and chaos after realising symbian had it's limitations facing iPhone.
I always wanted to buy this phone!
I would also love to see the Sirocco line up which is true nostalgia Nokia 8800
Would have loved to code on this some years ago
This one was my first smart phone. It was almost like a very very small laptop. After N900, modern smart phones seem to lack many features.
I had the n900 and the n97, my 2 favorite pre-android/iOS phones
I still have, and use this phone as my business phone, so good that I bought 2 and the other is still boxed.
Those were the fun days.
0:50 That Nokia intro plays smoothly than those in Symbian.
You should do one on the best of each series
Brilliant phone - although I had the charging port snap issue.
Loved the screen - a step up from others of the time.
The keyboard was great and a big reason to get the phone.
I remember having to hack it to get picture messages- no idea why it wasn't a default.
I only reason I really moved away was the lack of apps since everything was android or iphone. Otherwise it was a standout phone.
Superb phone old is gold
Thumbs up👍
I own this phone, still in nice condition. Maybe the best work phone at the time. A classic.