Nokia took another long step today with the N810, the third generation of its ‘Internet tablet’ line which began with the launch of the N770 in November 2005 and was followed by the N800 in January this year.
Like its predecessors, the N810 is powered by Nokia’s own Internet Tablet OS, also known as Maemo. This open source build is based on Debian and is topped by the same ‘Hildon’ user interface layer as will be featured on the Ubuntu Mobile OS used by Intel’s mobile Internet devices around the middle of 2008. The N810 runs the latest Internet Tablet OS 2008 release, aka Maemo 4.0 ‘Chinook’.
And this perl has now built-in GPS …. really cool, just wondering which navigation application it uses, and will there be one for major cities for India and Russia.
Under the refreshed and refined UI is a full Mozilla-based browser with support for Flash 9 and “rich AJAX” for bucketloads of Web 2.0 goodness, plus an updated Skype client. The N810’s power-plant remains a Texas Instruments OMAP processor, although this one is faster at 400MHz compared to the N800’s
Detailed Specs:
- Same 4.13-nch WVGA (800 x 480), 65k color display as the N800, brightness increased by ~20%
- GPS with particular focus on the “context sensitive web” via Ovi
- 2GB internal storage (not including memory cards), ships with maps for use with GPS
- Has WiFi (802.11b/g), does not have WiMAX
- Bluetooth (2.0+ EDR) DUNs to capable phones
- 400MHz OMAP 2420 CPU, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM
- Integrated frontal camera, ambient light sensor, mini USB 2.0, hardware lock switch
- Plays back video: 3GP, AVI, H.263, H.264, MP4, ASF, WMV, MPEG-1/4, Real video; audio: MP3, WMA, AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, Real audio, WAV
- Battery life aimed at 4 hours of “typical use” (movies, music, internet access, etc.), 10 hours music only, and up to 2 weeks totally idle time, and 5 days active standby (”improved compared to previous generation devices”)
- Runs Nokia’s Linux Maemo interface
- 5 x 2.83 x 0.55-inches, 7.97 ounces
Expect to shell out $450-$500 on this baby.
Question being asked by me, where are those cool MIDs from manufacturers that are supposed to compete with such products!
Original post by E@zyVG
