Remember the Nokia tablet that's long been on the rumor mill? Turns out it's a smartphone after all, with photos and details leaking out over the weekend.
Officially known as the Nokia Rover (though it has also been billed as the Nokia N900 and RX-51), the T-Mobile version of the new handset just recently passed the FCC. While there's still no news of pricing and release, the phone's full specs are out and they look mighty souped-up.
The front panel comes with no physical controls at all, which made most people suspect it's not actually a phone. Features include a 3.5-inch resistive touch panel with 800 x 480 resolution, 32GB of internal storage, a 5.0 megapixel camera module (with Carl Zeiss lens, dual LED flash, auto-focus and pop-up cover), a GPS radio, onboard FM tuner and microSD card expansion.
The Rover supports quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and WCDMA 900/1700/2100 connectivity. It also comes with Wi-Fi and stereo Bluetooth. The side-sliding handset will come with a full QWERTY keyboard, which sports an oddly-configured three rows only, causing a smaller-than-average spacebar.
Nokia is ditching Symbian OS for the device, fitting it with the upcoming Maemo 5, instead. The OS will be running on a 600 Mhz ARM Cortex A8 processor, the same CPU hardware powering both the iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre.
[via BGR]
Another high end phone from Nokia. This one seems to have everything loaded.
Is it just me or does the size look pretty big?
The size is big specially screen size. The qwerty keypad looks like it was forced into the phone at the last moment. Only time will tell how good this phone is. Going by the sales chart of Nokia 5800 and N97 i don’t think this will be a big hit.
The interesting thing about this phone is that Nokia decided to use Maemo 5 instead of Symbian. Good to see Nokia trying something other than Symbian for a change.