Originally Posted by Team C (Post 294101)

"though the buzz on the Web is on the N900 Rover tablet that's rumored to succeed the N810 Internet Tablet.

Originally Posted by volt (Post 294154)

At least a month till announcement? Bah!

Originally Posted by qole (Post 294156)

Technically, the "second half of 2009" starts June 21st!

Originally Posted by lma (Post 294179)

Well, "2009" starts on January 1st and "half" (365/2 days) would be July 2nd midday (but what timezone?)

Originally Posted by qole (Post 294156)

Technically, the "second half of 2009" starts June 21st!

Originally Posted by qole (Post 294156)

Technically, the "second half of 2009" starts June 21st!

Originally Posted by Team C (Post 294172)

I only know about the US phone market but if the leak is correct and it is on T-mobiles US 3g bands then it would make a lot of sense. The N97, Palm Pre, iphone and many other high end all in one phones will not work on T-mobile 3g here. T-mobile would have customers switching carriers just to get this phone, just like people switch carriers to get the iphone etc. It would make T-mobile much more competitive.

Or you could buy it unlocked for the premium prices these other phones go for unlocked

Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 294210)

Wait they don't? I thought people got the iPhone working on TMobiles network. There was a recent snafu when TMobile changed account access though and people were locked out of their voicemail though..(but TMobile fixed it.. how nice of them).

Then there's Android phones. :D

Originally Posted by Paxicide (Post 294225)

I think the N97 was announced in late 2008, and is just now shipping six months later. Hopefully the next maemo device doesnt use the same timeframe.

Originally Posted by Paxicide (Post 294225)

I think the N97 was announced in late 2008, and is just now shipping six months later. Hopefully the next maemo device doesnt use the same timeframe.

Originally Posted by Team C (Post 294221)

Android won't be ready for prime time until Android 2.0(donut) comes out toward the end of the year.

Originally Posted by ARJWright (Post 294313)

I'd hate to be the bearer of fun news but tmobile's network has never been anything to write home about in anything but prices. The only reason they aren't the smallest carrier is because sprint has fallen so hard. In other words, its a pipe dream to think that the next tablet will do more. It would need to be the morph concept to generate that kind of mainstream buzz

Originally Posted by zfarooq (Post 294219)

Tmobile US 3G is the only kind in the world....so no 3G unless its from Tmobile.

Originally Posted by ARJWright (Post 294313)

I'd hate to be the bearer of fun news but tmobile's network has never been anything to write home about in anything but prices.

Originally Posted by ARJWright (Post 294313)

I'd hate to be the bearer of fun news but tmobile's network has never been anything to write home about in anything but prices.

Originally Posted by Team C (Post 294393)

I don't know if this vid is real but at the 3 minute mark the N900 is shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caZssP1OFcQ

Originally Posted by Team C (Post 294393)

I don't know if this vid is real but at the 3 minute mark the N900 is shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caZssP1OFcQ

Originally Posted by Team C (Post 294393)

I don't know if this vid is real but at the 3 minute mark the N900 is shown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caZssP1OFcQ

Originally Posted by volt (Post 294154)

I'm starting to lose confidence in phone functionality. I've argumented that Nokia needs to fix a whole lot of stuff to be an acceptable phone. But if they did, the phone would not only be acceptable but superb when you take other things in consideration. It would outshine the N97 too much.

I don't see a trend in people selling superb equipment. It'd be too much of a leap. For such a product to work, it would have to be the most powerful phone on the market. I'm just not that optimistic.

I am starting to believe what some others here say, that it'll just be a smaller, fatter and more expensive tablet with 3G. With fewer keys. And I don't much like that vision.

At least a month till announcement? Bah!

Originally Posted by qgil (Post 294444)

I haven't seen the whole video and it's the first time I see this, so I have the same info than you. The guy in the Spanish intro says that these were experimental videos done by young artists with low budget and inventing the names of the products.

You invented the term "N900" last year in these forums and a young filmmaker had done the same perhaps even earlier.

None of this has anything to do with real products though.

Originally Posted by YoDude (Post 294452)

Yup, I couldn't understand on what basis did people believe the upcoming device was to be a traditional voice phone?

This article[/URL] dated less than a month ago stated:


BTW, the person who is responsible for Nokia's Linux and open source based software and strategy, Ari Jaaski points to ^that article in a recent blog entry. :)

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 293918)

Then supply something that's better adopted.

Originally Posted by Glasswalker (Post 294464)

just one word: amarok

Originally Posted by tissot (Post 294461)

It has been made pretty clear that Maemos future will be in phones, but like you i don't get many of Nokias decisions if N900 is not a phone.
N97 would still be different product because of s60. S60 is safe buy for many while N900 might look weird for many traditional Nokia buyers. I got pretty good feeling that Maemo will look great reading comments from here and from mobile-reviews Eldar and that might be it's strong point, but we will see :)

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 294467)

With some polish, that seriously is a good contender.
But that's some good software indeed. Hope Nokia packages it.

Originally Posted by GeraldKo (Post 293105)

While I enjoyed your notion of a model N900-O for old people, and I realize that not every "disability" can be catered to by a commercial enterprise, 60% of Americans are farsighted. (Since I haven't read that fast-food or gasoline-guzzling are causes of farsightedness, I would suppose that this figure is more-or-less accurate worldwide or at least in Europe, as well.)

Yes, I wear glasses, I went to my optometrist last month, but that isn't the cure-all you seem to think it is. (And my eyes aren't that bad, first requiring reading glasses at the ripe age of 29.) So drop this line of argument already, especially as (A) nobody is saying Don't make a 3.5" cellphone; they (we) are just saying, Make a bigger-screened tablet, too; and (B) there are more of us than there are of you!

(The way some of you are talking you would think that a person could see a paramecium on a glass slide if he just held it close enough to his eye!)