Maemo 5-powered Nokia N900 officially launched, coming in October

The new Maemo 5-based Nokia N900 Internet tablet has been officially announced and will be available for purchase starting this October for €500 (pre tax and pre carrier subsidy). Since it comes with 1700MHz band support, the most likely carrier to be selling it stateside is T-Mobile USA.

Nokia N900 specs:

• Maemo 5 OS;
• Quad-band GSM/EDGE, 900/1700/2100MHz UMTS/HSPA;
• 3.5" 800x480 pixel (resistive) touchscreen;
• Sliding QWERTY;
• 32GB of on-board storage expandable to 48GB via microSD;
• GPS/A-GPS;
• FM transmitter;
• TV-out;
• Bluetooth 2.1;
• Wi-Fi;
• 1320mAh battery;
• 5Mpix camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual-LED flash;
• ARM Cortex-A8;
• Up to 1GB of application memory;
• Support for OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration