New version of the N900 ???
 

hey guys so ive owned my n900 for a few months now and loving it and after letting my brother take a look at it he decided that it would be the perfect upgrade for him so he popped into the cpw and started the upgrade process. However he got to half way through doing it when the sales assistant said he couldn't upgrade on the day in question however he could the following week and asked him if he still wanted the n900 and he said yes.

A few days later he got a call from them saying his phone was now ready for collection however it would be the Nokia N900 version 2. when he got to the store they told him that the wrong phone had been delivered and he would have to wait a few days longer. Reluctantly he said fine and went on to ask the difference between version 1 and 2 and the sales assistant didnt have a clue.

He has asked me about it and i thought id just put the feelers out so Is there a new version of our beloved beast out there if so has anything changed. Or is my brother just being fobbed off by the cpw.

Cheers in advance.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

Initial thoughts are that this is bs. CPW waiting for new stock seeing as they seem to have sold out everywhere right now.

Can't imagine why there would be a v2.0 of the device.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

USB-port problems?
USB OTG and digital compass would be wished "small" hw changes also.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

They might refer to the default firmware, e.g. version 2 could mean a PR1.1 by default

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

Low stock would make sense really and there just trying to buy time. Still a bit pointless on there behalf just say there waiting for stock. cheers for reply.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

i agree awith attila, most likely firmware.

So far there are 2 types of hardware revision, pre-production models, and production models.
Very interested to see if he does get a newer model though - Healthcheck will tell you the revision number ;)

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

i thought they were talking about firmware at first. o And yes when he does collect it monday ill be going over it using health check. ill report back

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

It is possible it's simply a minor hardware revision with a few manufacturing improvements. Nokia regularly improve their manufacturing process for phones with minor defects to correct them, it's perfectly possible that theyre now producing N900's with a stronger USB connector, a stronger connector for the phone speaker, and other minor tweaks.
If they have produced a new revision though, there will be no functional differences whatsoever, and usually no obvious way to tell the difference between each revision.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

BS if It was a new model this community runs way to deep to let a sales rep break what would be huge news for n900.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

In what possible way would it be "huge" news? Minor hardware revisions of phones with small manufacturing process improvements come along all the time, in most cases people don't even know theres any difference.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

Im not talking about miner hardware changes, The poster brother was told and led to believe that this is a new N900 version 2.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

ask him to prove how its version 2...

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

may be it's the branded network N900? branded by provider or something. North america or whatever. My board revision is 2101.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

Or even... (Dun dun DUN!) CPW has been promised a batch with PR1.2 ready installed, and they can't let him have it until it goes on public release. Given the hitches they had on the update in the UK last time, they could be ironing that out now.

Or not.

Or the CPW staff have been told to 'say anything' to satisfy customers whose phone is delayed.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

that could be the case lol. Really hope the pr1.2 is rolling out though. I am totally sick of this v.keyboard right now. Nokia ruined it after PR1.1 is rolled out. I made more mistakes with this keyboard and slower typing with capitalisation. Terrible!

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

yeah to be fair it was made out to him that this was something big and new but like i say monday will tell i spoke to hime again this afternoon and he said the wrong phone he went to collect WAS a N900 but not the version 2 that had been ordered for his account. so the plot thickens. ,He is on orange so i got to thinking is it a branded version of the handset.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

on a similar topic, my brother (who could be lurking the forums right now) jjust got an N900 from dell. they were having a sale for 439 again. maybe they are clearing iinventory ? he gets it wed. but maybe dell is expecting a fresh shipment of pr 1.2s

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

True that^

However, he was also told his phone was "in" and when he got there it wasn't. :eek:

And then:


I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate here:

wrong phone + clueless sales assistant = version 2

When he was called and told that his phone was "in" the sales assistant looked at the thing, saw that it didn't look like a N900, and covered his *** for not doing his homework by thinking it must be a new version. :rolleyes:

The good news may be that when his phone does come in it may in fact now be "version 3". :confused:

That is the version where Nokia decided to change it back to look like "version 1" :p

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

so i got chance to have a look a my brothers new version 2 nokia n900 and most of you guy prob guessed anyway its false its the same as the rest of ours. it come with pr1.1 installed and that was all that was different from when i got mine. the guy in the shop was still saying it was a new version when my brother went to collect and he did mean hardware but couldnt say what had changed. cheers for all the posts now the exitments over i can go back to waiting for pr1.2. cheers again.

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

In production parlance, a "version 2" could be a minor build change. The numbering would be for internal use only.

The version change could indicate an upgrade or other change in certain components that makes models manufactured past a certain point different enough from prior models that they require different repair kits and instructions. At the same time, they would function identically.

Anyway just err to the side of reason here and assume there's neither a major revelation nor conspiracy going on. ;)

Re: New version of the N900 ???
 

whoaa. if we are talking hw changes then how about that aweful camera? almost every one has experienced that crazy camera haze thing in any lighting other than pure bright day light. its totally a hw issue and i would want to see that fixed