Nokia, in order to re-engage and regain support of their Symbian-liking fans and customers has decided to create a smartphone, preferably a top-of-the-line N-series handset which would be running on Symbian^4 operating system. The decision to take this move has been taken keeping in view the ever decreasing customer base of Nokia's Symbian OS operated devices.

Nokia is releasing, in the near future, its latest N8 smartphone which will be the only device in the N-series operating on the Symbian^3 OS. Nokia is also developing an operating system in collaboration with Intel, named MeeGo, which aims towards the "computers of the future".

Nokia is sticking to Symbian as its preferred operating system platform despite poor choices in the recent past. This has led to a decrease in the Symbian fan base of the company who demand good software from the manufacturer. Recently, Symbian Guru, a popular Symbina-Nokia dedicated website was closed down by its owners stating the poor hardware choices made by Nokia to run Symbian OS on had them forced for taking the decision.

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Nokia N900, one of Nokia's flagship smartphone in the market today has a unique status now among smartphones. The smartphone, being a non-Android operating system device is among the first smartphones (along with HTC's Nexus One) which gets Android 2.2 Froyo. Obviously, this feat was achieved through hacks, but this is the most successful hack done as the device seems to work seamlessly with Android 2.2 running on it. Support for Wi-Fi and hardware keyboard is available to users while using Android 2.2 Froyo on the Nokia N900 and other basic necessities are also fulfilled comprehensively.

Originally, Nokia 900 runs Maemo 5 (also known as Fremantle) as its default operating system, which is an open source flavor of Debian based Linux, made for handheld devices. The N900 also features a 600 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU along with 256MB RAM and 32GB flash memory. Other specs include 3.6' TFT screen, 5.0 megapixel Carl Zeiss Tessar lens mounted back camera and a VGA front camera, and connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, EDGE, Bluetooth etc.

Watch this YouTube video in order to get a sneak peak at how Android 2.2 works on the Nokia N900:

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Android 2.2 Froyo Ported to Nokia N900