N900 Videos

Matthew Miller presents a walkthrough of the phone functionality of the N900, which is the first Nokia Maemo device to have an integrated cellphone (although Maemo supported Skype calls on all previous Nokia Internet Tablets—the 770, N800 and N810).

The walkthrough starts with waking up the phone by pressing the power button and moving an on-screen slider.

The phone application defaults to portrait mode. You can switch between a dialling pad and your contacts list. Cellular phone calls, Skype calls, and Google Talk are closely integrated. For each contact you can store phone numbers, Skype numbers, Google Talk, IM etc.

When you initiate a call you see a speaker button, a dialpad button, a mute button and of course an “End” button. The proximity sensor will turn off the display if you hold the phone up to your ear, the same as with an iPhone. Opening the keyboard switches the phone application to landscape mode, where the same options are available.

When you add a contact you get a wide choice of fields: the usual cell/landline/work/home combinations, plus email, Google Talk, Jabber, Ovi, SIP, Skype etc. You can also add non-communication information such as address, birthday, web page, gender, nickname, company and job title, and a general-purpose note.

Matthew ends on a positive note: “The more I use it, the more I actually enjoy using it as a phone. The phone call quality is typical Nokia, very high.”