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I'm keeping an eye on the Pandora project too. I decided to pass on the N810 (very happy with my N800) so I'm looking forward to the next tablet and/or Pandora. I have no interest in WiMax since it'll be ages before it's available in my area, but I'm looking forward to other hardware upgrades.

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125 points!

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Just thank him 125 times.

cairn, get posting!

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Texrat, we had fun guessing the name. Now, you MUST out of loyalty to the happy and tightknit family of IT lovers gives a hint (or two) (or three) about what its actually like - just N800/N810 + WiMax chip? Or something different/better? Come on man, you are killing me with curiosity. And I am not even a cat. Maybe a dog.

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Eh, I only have scant detail, Viipottaja, and if I knew more I couldn't/wouldn't say. I have loyalty to my job, too. Almost as much. ;)

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/me continues prodding. :p

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that's it, it's a 770 with WiMAX.

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Oh, how I hope they call it the N770. The confusion it would cause!

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Ehehe. That would be fun. :D

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Quit that. It tickles.

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Texrat, will the new tablet fix the GPS problems? If it requires cold-start time for each fix, even when your last one was only an hour ago, then I can't justify buying it. If I buy it, I need it to replace both my 770 AND my stand-alone GPS receiver, which does hot- and warm-starts just fine (as is the industry standard). If the new tablet has a properly-working GPS and WiMAX, I am all over it!

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I don't know anything about work related to GPS, sorry.

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Pretty easy, if you're a programmer...

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Forget it man...won't work. TR let my old cat go without so much as a whisper of the release date last year...but then rats don't like cats...:rolleyes:maybe it's better you're a dog...;)

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I'm probably pushing my luck here, but it's for the sake of decision. With the release would anyone expect the N810 to drop below $300? I ask this because if it would, I'll probably wait the extra month or two, but if it isn't, I'll just get an N800. Alternatively if the new one launches at sub $350 I'd probably consider that one...

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I doubt the N810 will drop below $350 anytime soon. I also think the new IT will also include integrated GPS like the N810; therefore, I believe the new IT will be well over $350. Hopefully, they will upgrade the Processor and include 2 full size SD slots and a better digi/web cam. If they do that much, I would expect it to be quite high. I would, however, still buy one.

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I'd rather have 2 microSD slots than 2 SD slots.

It'll be interesting to see what improvements they work into it.

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I wouldn't prefer it, but I could deal with that if "size constraints" still factored into it.

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I still think that the PIM market will be getting more crowded and competitive and the new Nokia will have to stand out in price/features somehow. The N810, esp. compared to the N800, suffers for this.

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Does anyone know if WiMax will be interoperable with LTE (which seems to have ton of industry momentum)? I'm really wary of another set of competing mobile standards.

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Moreover, the current standard for cold fixes is 30 seconds (MTK, Sirf chips). I really hope the next Nokia tablet will dump the piece-of-you-know-what Texas Instruments GPS chip.

Better yet, give us offline AGPS. With offline AGPS, you download a 50k file once every 10 days, and get all fixes in about 5 seconds. Now, wouldn't that be sweet?

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When we release a PIM, we'll take that into consideration. :D

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They offer wimax in QUE?
kdub

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Kind of off topic for this thread but ...

It seems that the problem is not the hardware after all. The problem was a buggy gpsd (or buggy function feeding gpsd the date) that was giving the wrong date by exactly a day ... which cases the gps to cold start every single time. Jussi Kukkonen found the problem and made a fixed deb available here:

http://vilunki.wordpress.com/2008/02...-gps-problems/

(Isn't it great to have the source code available?)

I downloaded it an installed it (must be in Red Pill mode ... just the plain gpsd ... not the gpsd-dev or gpsd-dbg) and it didn't kill my N810 but I won't get a chance to test it until my drive home.

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The improvement was quite dramatic on the warm start. It still had to cold start (~4 minutes while moving) the first time but the time was reduced quite a bit even after a reboot while still moving (~1 minute while moving). When stopping and starting the maps apps while stationary, the GPS reacquired a position very quickly (~15 seconds).

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N820
N900
N910
N830

I'm guessing it's one of the above.

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Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

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RX-48 . . . what can we take from that?

I want to say it'll be similar to the N810, but my instincts tell me we don't have enough data on the model codes to be sure.

How's Nokia on trailing letters? Maybe an N810w or N810i?

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While I'm still rooting for "Netsucker", I suspect Nokia will choose something more understated. Perhaps this is a trailing lowercase letter situation. So, Nokia N810i or the like.

EDIT: Ah, nuts. The General beat me to it.

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I can neither confirm nor deny the general's prescience. His speed, however, is obvious.

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That's illogical -- the 'i' suffix is when they add "internet capability" (generally a browser) to an existing phone. The "Internet Tablet", of course, already has what it takes to have the 'i'... but it's not a phone. So something like N800p or N810p could make sense... if they were to add a SIM slot to the tablets. But then they would have to add PIM functionality too, so we know it's out of the question :-)

I'm still rooting for an E-something.

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I've got a feeling it probably starts with N9* (wild card).

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Nah, there's no way it's a 900-series. N9?? would imply a big changeup in hardware (OMAP3, etc), which the model code suggests against. Besides, an N9?? release would piss off far too many new N810 owners.

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I don't know. We already know it starts with N, we know it's not N820 or N830. I suppose it could be like N850 or N890 maybe. They could use the last digit too, like N895, N815, N835, etc. Is Nokia in the habit of using revision letters? Maybe we're talking something like *A or *a, *B, etc.

To be honest, I'm actually much more interested in finding out what other features are planned for the unit than its actual name.

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I will say it is NOT an N9xx. GA's logic is spot-on there.

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Hm. Wonder about a minor version number increment. Like N811.

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Really. Interesting, well, I suppose my hunch was incorrect. In that case I'm going to say it'll be N8??. The second digit has to be 4-9, and the last will probably be 0, maybe 5 or 1. The vast majority of Nokia phones have 0 at the end.

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I was thinking N880? Kind of like the N770?

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Yeah, I'm thinking N880 or N890.

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I think the rumored WiMax (WM) was incorrect... its actually that they realized their error of omission in the N8x0 series and they are planning a return to Magic Magnet™ technology!

So maybe N810+MM or both wimax -and- magic magnets! N810+MM+WM