It looks to me like a Samsung+WinMo version of an N810-WME. I'd be more impressed with a GSM/WCDMA version.
Though, it has 4 improvements over the N810:
1) MicroSD card instead of miniSD,
2) 4GB internal storage,
3) HDMI video out, and
4) Accelerometer (which I presume means it'll support screen rotation at all, unlike the N810)
But, with WinMo, I'm just not interested. Maybe if Samsung gets Android and Mer on it...
Our dirty little secret is that maemo is actually Linux running in a virtual machine on top of WindowsCE. Which would be fine really, except that the broken emulator is not open source and we, the community, can't fix it...
I also don't see any sign of an HDMI port. In fact it looks really close functionally to an N810 Wimax Edition (but with WinMo instead of MaeMo). Presumably the buttons on the right of the keyboard are the "full screen, zoom in, zoom out" buttons that we know and love.
Kind of odd isn't it? Nokia discontinues a WiMax tablet for the Xohm service, then after the merger Samsung brings out a very similar WiMax tablet for the now-named-Clear service. It doesn't seem to make commercial sense. I can't help wondering if there was some kind of backroom deal done in conjunction with the merger.
Nokia had a mature product and must have already amortized most of their N810 R&D costs against the non-WiMax edition, so surely they had a cash cow here. Very weird.
dont know about the bottom two, but the top one is probably a soft key, like one find on any modern mobile phone. note that there is a matching one at the top left of the keyboard area as well. and also on the right and left of the screen (for when the keyboard is not in use).
It's hard to imagine why you'd have tiny keyboard softkeys in addition to the nice big ones on the screen. I can't see how you could use the screen to give function to more than one pair of softkeys, so the small "softkeys" are a puzzle.
The other two keys at the right appear to be labelled "+/Up" and "-/Dn". There's a dedicated Internet Explorer key above the D-pad, and of course a "Windows" key. How many "OK" buttons do you need? There's the center of the D-pad, the ENTER key, and an OK key just beneath ENTER.
I also don't see any sign of an HDMI port. In fact it looks really close functionally to an N810 Wimax Edition (but with WinMo instead of MaeMo). Presumably the buttons on the right of the keyboard are the "full screen, zoom in, zoom out" buttons that we know and love.
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Kind of odd isn't it? Nokia discontinues a WiMax tablet for the Xohm service, then after the merger Samsung brings out a very similar WiMax tablet for the now-named-Clear service. It doesn't seem to make commercial sense. I can't help wondering if there was some kind of backroom deal done in conjunction with the merger.
Nokia had a mature product and must have already amortized most of their N810 R&D costs against the non-WiMax edition, so surely they had a cash cow here. Very weird.
