Point in this is is prove how easy it's to develop programs to Linux based Maemo 5, which N900 uses. N900 isn't on the market yet and first inside Nokia test mobiles are been out probably 6 - 10 months and it already have quite lot of different applications.
Real difference what it comes with N900 compared to Symbian phones is that SW developing is 10 times more easier and same code can be reused much easier between phone models. Also with Maemo 5 you can have some very important features like multi threading in your code and you don't need to strucle slownes of Symbian and it's 40 milloin lines of code (Yes. Symbian has as much code lines as Windows XP. Thats why all Symbian phones are so damn slow).
N900 comes with ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, which is same as in Apple iPhone 3GS and it also have hardware graphics acceleration and 256MB RAM.







