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Nokia's mini-tablet smartphone device, the N900, running on open source Linux Maemo 5 software, ships today and will be on sale by the end of the month.

The N900 will sell for about $650 at the Nokia pre-order Web site, and is priced at 500 euros, or about $740, without subsidies, which have yet to be disclosed for the U.S.

While the Finnish giant calls the N900 both a "mobile computer" and a "handset," others describe it as a high-end smartphone. Though it appears to fall into the gray area between the two, a sort of mid-sized Internet device (MID), it does have voice calling and is grouped in Nokia's Nseries family.

Despite a murky nomenclature, the N900 does boast an extensive feature set, including Wi-Fi, GPS and a 5-megapixel camera.

It's all powered by the open source Maemo 5 platform and an ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz processor. The N900 boasts a 3.5-inch touchscreen with 800-by-480 resolution, a keyboard and has 32 GB of internal storage with the capacity for up to 1GB for application memory.

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