I would love for that to be the case (since Canada is already bathed in the warm rays of wimax) but wouldn't that have shown up in the FCC report?
As far as i think they do not need to test the hardware which nokia is not planning to use. But if in the future nokia plans to make the wimax chip public then they should get it passed through fcc before it is released to the public. The same thing happend for the fm radio on the n800 .... nothing was filed with the fcc.... but later on they added support
I may be totally wrong with all these.... this is just guess work,
I can't imagine the FCC allowing a device to pass certification without testing all the transmitters within the device at all frequencies, and this would include WiMax... Nokia could keep quiet about the FM Radio because it's a receiver. What would Nokia do if they decided to enable WiMax and failed FCC certification - there would be shed loads of product sold which have WiMax capability which can't be used, and the firmware would need to differentiate between "good" devices and "bad" devices. Nah, can't see the Easter Egg being WiMax!
Yep, Milhouse is right. Nokia (or anyone else for that matter) can not sell any transmitting device without FCC approval. That means that there will be no hidden WiMax or FM transmitter capability. The FM receiver was able to be hidden because the FCC certification is not necessary for something that only receives radio.
We've got to look elsewhere for the 'easter egg', assuming it is a hardware feature at all.
I can't imagine the FCC allowing a device to pass
certification without testing all the transmitters within the device at all frequencies, and
this would include WiMax... Nokia could keep quiet about the FM Radio because it's a
receiver. What would Nokia do if they decided to enable WiMax and failed FCC
certification - there would be shed loads of product sold which have WiMax capability
which can't be used, and the firmware would need to differentiate between "good"
devices and "bad" devices. Nah, can't see the Easter Egg being WiMax!
valid point mil. But if nokia really wanted to do that they could have easily done that. I mean they would never give the fcc a product even in doubt of passing the fcc set recommendations. They would test each and every device even more thoroughly before sending it for fcc approval.
So the point is that nokia can do that if they want to. Its just a matter of they wanting to do it.
TE=Milhouse;86134]I can't imagine the FCC allowing a device to pass certification without testing all the transmitters within the device at all frequencies, and this would include WiMax... Nokia could keep quiet about the FM Radio because it's a receiver. What would Nokia do if they decided to enable WiMax and failed FCC certification - there would be shed loads of product sold which have WiMax capability which can't be used, and the firmware would need to differentiate between "good" devices and "bad" devices. Nah, can't see the Easter Egg being WiMax! [/QUOTE]
It's hardware. I found it after about a week of use. Then again, it's unofficial -- so who is to say it's the egg. It's simply beyond the specs, so it's an egg as far as I'm concerned. Then again, the final build hardware could change.
It's hardware. I found it after about a week of use. Then again, it's unofficial -- so who is to say it's the egg. It's simply beyond the specs, so it's an egg as far as I'm concerned. Then again, the final build hardware could change.
A magnetically operated sleep/lock switch on the front of the N810, designed to be operated by a hard-cover flap, similar to that available for the N800?
