Yesterday Nokia officially started shipping of its new N900 Smartphone. Within a few weeks the Nokia Maemo 5 device will be touching down in Europe, the Middle-East, Russia and North America shortly. It will be priced at an estimated market price of 500 Euros without a SIM card.

When the N900 launches it’ll be compatible with most networks, except for the new 3G SIM cards from 3 in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Austria although a software update is in the pipeline.