After a tiring but fun and exciting trip, I’m back home. This is the only time I got to take decent pics of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet — angles, what’s in the box, and comparison pics with the Nokia 770 and the Nokia N800. I hope you enjoy them. Initial impressions coming soon.
An even higher-res set is now available in the gallery.
Nokia just released images of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet ahead of the scheduled announcement later today. We should get the actual specifications later for sure but for now, enjoy the eight Nokia N810 product images directly from Nokia.
FYI, a new forum for Nokia N810 has been created. We also started a thread to post your Nokia N810 questions that we can ask the Nokia folks later today — we suggest you post your questions ASAP. BTW, there is a big chance that the itT servers will be crashing because of big tech and gadget sites linking in. Just in case, you can’t access the site later, post you questions over at the Jaiku itT channel.
Ok, two rumors here. First — ThoughtFix’s anonymous tipster points out a press release from Island Def Jam Music Group that mentions the new tablet that Nokia might announce this week — the Nokia N810. From the press release:
The party, co-sponsored by Island Def Jam Music Group, mSpot and Nokia, will showcase IDJ Radio, along with Nokia’s mobile sharing service MOSH and the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.
The second rumor — the Nokia N810 is to feature MOSH. MOSH is Nokia’s social networking service, announced mid-September this year, allowing you to share applications, games, images, videos, audio, and documents directly from your computer as well as Nokia devices.
I’ve dug up a MOSH article over at PC World that gives another clue about MOSH and the announcement this week:
By the end of October, when the service expands its breadth, Linardos says the built-in device-detecting intelligence will be improved. He expects that by then, you’ll be able to share content with someone, have them follow the link to download that content, and then MOSH will be able to detect what device you’re on, and store that info for future reference.
Lastly, I want to announce the Jaiku #itT channel (see the new #itT Jaiku badge on the main page). Together with ThoughtFix and some other bloggers, itT will be live Jaiku-ing at the Web 2.0 Summit this week, starting tomorrow. Feel free to post questions and comments in the channel. Note also that Mauku, an excellent Jaiku client, is now available for your Nokia Internet Tablet.
Hold on to your seats as Nokia might be launching something (hopefully the 3rd gen tablet) at Web 2.0 Summit happening from October 17 to 19 at San Francisco. Several (here, here, and here) have blogged about the event already. The big clue is on the Wednesday evening schedule of the event:
Nokia is the main host for the Progressive Suite Party in the Sunset Court which kicks off directly after dinner on the first day. Nokia will also be hosting a stylish party in the adjacent Twin Peaks room, which will showcase their next generation of Web 2.0 offerings, launched earlier that afternoon.
Thanks to WOM World, Internet Tablet Talk will be there to cover the event so expect tons of pics in the gallery.
Devicescape announced today support for the Nokia Internet Tablets (for both the 770 and the N800), offering effort-less WiFi connectivity to 100,000 international free and paid WiFi hotspots.
In order for Devicescape to give you automatic Wi-Fi hotspot access, a small application must first be downloaded to your device or pre-installed by the device manufacturer. Then, whenever your device detects a public Wi-Fi hotspot (such as a T-Mobile HotSpot) your device will send a brief message to one of our web servers. The message identifies the device and the hotspot it’s trying to access. Our server will answer back with instructions on how to login, and the username and password for that hotspot if needed. Your device will then use the information from the server to login to the hotspot. All this can happen in just a few seconds and is done completely behind the scenes, invisible to you.
By now a lot of you must have seen the Nokia Nseries Unlocked - Los Angeles coverage from other Nokia bloggers and enthusiast sites. Internet Tablet Talk was also lucky enough to get an invite from WOM World and join the group of bloggers to attend the event.
It was great finally putting faces to names, sites, and RSS feeds. Thoughtfix, who I also met for the first time, received his invite at the last minute but has done a great job covering the event, even blogging on-site using a Nokia N800 and a Stowaway keyboard.
The newest Nokia Nseries phones were all over. The SlingPlayer for the Symbian OS that was announced earlier that the day, as well as other apps, were being demoed in different areas. An N800 wall (twenty five N800s running videos) were on display in one room. Someone was also operating an N800 kiosk were you can order drinks from, sending orders via Google Talk to the bar. The highlight of the event however is the one-on-one session between the bloggers, Bill Plummer, Vice President, Nokia, Multimedia Sales & Channel Management, and the other Nokia Product Managers. It is not surprising though that they cannot comment on upcoming products, specifically internet tablets.
The trip was tiring but all-in-all great and fun.
Here is Internet Tablet Talk’s coverage… in pictures — 57 of ‘em. Enjoy.
Nokia has released a new version of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, available now for download. This new release (version number 4.2007.38-2) provides a software fix for a bug which may have appeared while copying large amount of data over-the-air or from external SDHC memory card to internal memory or vice versa. In some cases the downloaded data may have corrupted.
This new release fixes also a bug which drops in some cases voltage from memory card, though cards should manage this kind of situations without corruption.
Nokia announced today that it intends to acquire NAVTEQ for $8.1 billion. NAVTEQ is a leading provider of navigation maps commonly seen in mobile navigation devices from Garmin as well as on-board automobile navigation systems found in Audis, BMWs, Mercedes-Benzs, Jaguars, Porsches, and Volvos, to name a few.
I like this move from Nokia. Garmin is one of the biggest clients of Navteq and at least in the US, Garmin navigation devices have the best maps. This would mean the same Garmin-quality compressed maps for Nokia devices.
Can we infer that the next Internet Tablet will have a built-in GPS and navigation functionality?
