Nokia N900 Starts Shipping

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We have been talking about Nokia’s latest smartphone / Internet tablet for a long time now but the device hasn’t been made available to customers yet. In fact Nokia did delay the N900 last month as it apparently needed a few fixes before being shipped to customers all over the world.

Today we have good news for you, folks! The Maemo-running Nokia N900 is ready to ship in various regions of the world. Nokia fans from Europe, USA and the Middle East will get the device starting today. Olli-Pekka Kalasvuo, Nokia’s CEO said in a speech today that the company has started the deliveries of the phone so you should be able to purchase one in the following days.

The phone is definitely something else when looking at Nokia’s current smartphone business. The time of the N96 is long gone and the 5800 XpressMusic, although a touchscreen device, is not a smartphone. The N97, although very impressive in specs, hasn’t been able to conquer the world so Nokia is still looking for a phone that’s capable of fighting against the competition.

And the competition has some really hot phone available, especially at this time of year. Apple’s iPhone, Palm’s Pre, RIM’s BlackBerry Storm2 and Bold2, HTC’s Hero and HD2, Motorola’s Droid, Samsung’s Omnia II or Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 are some of the best smartphones out there. Some of them are already on sale, making a lot of cash for their manufacturers and various carriers while Nokia can’t truly say it has a phone ready to stand a chance in front of those. The N900 might just be a phone capable of bringing Nokia closer to the top of the mobile business.

Don’t get me wrong, Nokia is still the master of the known universe when it comes to worldwide mobile market share. But that doesn’t mean that it also rules the smartphone business. Apple and RIM are the companies to beat when it comes to smartphones and Google’s Android OS is also growing very fast.

So what do you say? Are you willing to give the N900 a try and disregard the Droid or the iPhone for a change?