This is NOT your average unboxing video!

I’ve been trying to get my hands on the Nokia N900 for a while now, many of you have emailed me asking for a review or asking questions about the N900 so we’ve been bugging Nokia for a review model almost daily!

About a week ago I had an email from Nokia asking if I would like to try out one of their new handsets, but the catch was that they were unable to tell me which one they were going to send me! Not a problem I said, we’ll take a look anyway.

The Nokia N900

So a few days ago this large, heavy black plastic cube turned up in the office. There were no instructions, no list of contents, just a USB to MiniUSB cable supplied. There was no obvious way to open the box – a little puzzle! 🙂

So first of all we connected the box up to a PC with the USB cable to see what would happen, when Windows reported that it was installing drivers for a USB to Serial bridge and added a serial device on COM4 I thought it would be a good idea to start a terminal connection to it and, well watch the video below to see what happened next.

Nokia N900 unboxing video

Head over to the forum to discuss the Nokia N900 and feel free to ask questions in time for the review. Don’t forget to Follow us on Twitter to be notified when the review goes live too!

EDIT: Our full Nokia N900 review has now been posted on the site and you can also see James’ Nokia N900 Demonstration video too.

Nokia N900 specification:

Dimensions: 110.9 x 59.8 x 19.55 millimetres

Mass: 181 grams (battery included)

600 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 CPU

256MB RAM / 768MB ROM

32GB internal storage

3.5″ colour transflective TFT 800 x 480 pixels

Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP

WiFi – 802.11b/g

Infrared Gate

Nokia Internet Tablet OS Maemo 5.0

Video output

3.5mm headphone connector

Quad-band GSM and Tri-band HSDPA/3G

FM radio (87.5-108MHz) with RDS

Built in GPS and Nokia Maps

5 Megapixel auto-focus camera and dual-LED flash

0.3MP forward-facing camera for video calling

1320 mAh battery

Posted by: Matt