We're not sure how we missed this, but it seems the Nokia N900 (aka "Rover") was not only mentioned, but visually detailed in some candor during an Nseries presentation way back in October of last year. If you fast forward to about the three-minute mark in this video, Nokia's next-gen,
Maemo 5-powered internet tablet is seen doing its thing, and it differs in a few key details from the last leak -- most noticeably, it's got a big d-pad on the left just like its predecessor and there's no sign of an earpiece for making calls over the rumored 3G radio. In fact, it really just looks like a whited-out
N810, which makes us wonder whether this isn't purely conceptual, especially considering the age of the video. Either way, the N810's aging rapidly and the territory's rapidly being encroached on by MIDs of all shapes and sizes, so we imagine we'll see this get launched soon enough -- maybe on T-Mobile USA of all carriers, if the rumors pan out. Follow the break for the full video.
[Thanks, CanisMinor]
Update: We're being told that this was little more than a student-led art project -- and it's one hell of an art project, considering that it looks every bit as slick as Nokia's official marketing. Thanks,
Ryan A.!
posted Jun 7th 2009 at 1:42PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
.thomas @ Jun 7th 2009 3:00PM
what are nokia waiting for? i want a device like the rumoured n900 asap, and nokia hasn't even anounced it yet! with iphone and palm pre already delivering, it's looking increasingly worrying for nokia.
john @ Jun 7th 2009 3:53PM
According to someone on the Maemo development team (over on InternetTabletTalk/MaemoTalk), those films presented at that presentation were entirely created by independent artists, who created product images/renders/names on their own. He said he's never seen that one before.
Also, several things in the presentation were on the order of a year old.
Carl - NokiApp.com @ Jun 8th 2009 9:26AM
What's the speculation about then? Surely it must be coming from other places rather than someone with a cool hand at designing.
Cookieface @ Jun 9th 2009 8:13AM
I took that video guys. Its a Axel Meyer presentation in Buenos Aires Argentina (http://www.onedotzero.com.ar/2008/conferencias_4.asp). Its a forbidden video in Nseries because it shows the actual Nseries models with prototipe names (for example n97 is n96):
http://cookieface.com.ar/2008/10/12/nokia-argentina-n97/
saludos de argentina:
billy @ Jun 10th 2009 10:43PM
Hope that I can use it to browse www.hongkongtourmap.com easily on the road.