Successor of the Nokia N900!?
At Nokia World, the Nokia N900 was referred to as step 4 of 5 in the Maemo route to Smartphone perfection. Or words to that effect.
The N900 is already pretty amazing, how much more could the successor be?
Could this be Step 5?
- 4-Row keyboard WITH a numbers row – spacebar in the middle!
- More standard looking, offset QWERTY keyboard.
- No D-Pad or 4 row directional arrow keys, – possibly a trackball instead? Last time seen in a Nokia was the 7650, now popularised by RIM and their Blackberry.
- Can’t really glean much else from this image. If it’s Maemo – then it’s 800×480 pixels at least.
- Looks oddly more iPhone-like than Nokia-esque.
On the hardware side, for it to warrant being the “Step 5″, (for me) it needs:
- Capacitive display
- At least 3.5″ or greater (up to 4.1″)
- 8MP camera – similar grade to N86
- Xenon Flash as in N82
- Perhaps even the Dual LED flash of the N86?
- Bigger battery – back up to 1500mAh please (or more)
- Possibly an upgrade on the processor and RAM? N900′s performance hasn’t been publicly tested sufficiently to know how much improvement, if any, it needs in this department.
- 3D- display even? (Not sure I see the benefit yet. Maybe it’ll render “UP” and “AVATAR” in 3D?)
Briefly on software – will “Step 5″ even be Maemo 5 or another version of Maemo?
Concept phone or actually coming to Nokia’s Portfolio? Whatever the case, I hope they bring back 4 row keyboards with similar layout to the above.
Alternatively there’s an Eseries version of the N900. The E900. Specification of this concept in picture.
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“4-Row keyboard WITH a numbers row – spacebar in the middle!”
No ‘Z’ key.
“Could this be Step 5?”
No.
Are you blind or what..? There IS a Z key..!!
Wow!! I am impressed with this phone. It looks fantastic. I like the 4-Row keyboard. 8 mp camera is good, image quality seems to be fantastic. Battery life is also very satisfying.
Glad that have my feelings too: we want XENON flash, again ,,,, PLEASE !!
No BIGGER BATTERIES please! Smartphones are designed for heavy, professional use, like all professional gear. Standard, easily available batteries (swapable with my bluetooth GPS receiver), plus battery chargers everywhere: car, home, offices, usb, etc. Plus having multiple spare batteries stored on your person in ziplock plastic bags.
This is nice, I am really wanting an N900 but would prefer the build quality of an E series. The camera is plenty for what I would want in a phone and I don’t see the need to get onto the mega pixel race but would prefer that image quality with lower image noise over pixel count and Nokia has smartly put a high quality lens on the N900 so hopefully the N900 is a big improvement over my E71. But what I would like and it seems like I am the only one since I never see anyone else state they would like to see it is for a compact Flash slot to be included along with the SD card slot, that would offer the option for much greater expandability at lower cost than Micro SD memory and CF memory has better performance.
Also I wish Nokia would release the software for phone syncing with the PC for Linux so I could more easily connect with my Debian and Fedora desktops.
It does not make sense…This phone are soooo large… Nokia would not do that. It’s a mistake.
And another thing: the amount of megapixels is not the more important thing. The quality of images is performed by the inner components and the lents.
you clearly don’t know anything about the camera sensors in mobile devices. mega-pixels are everything. because it is up to that what revision is the sensor and which generation of sensors. and usually the next generation has more MPs.. so more MPs means a better sensor. and one more thing. optics has nothing to do either, because it doesn’t matter how they are branded they are all the same peace of plastic. and those ‘inner components’ are actually software and firmware enchantments.
Listen to yourself. Aren’t you embarrassed? Don’t you know that consumer level cameras upscale the image to let the ignorant user (you in this case) think they have a high quality image? Don’t you know this things? Don’t you understand: garbage in = garbage out? In this case garbage from the optics…
Sorry…. This phone “is” so large.
The phone is just perfect. I want an E900!
Currently using the E90 for which there is no replacement from Nokia or any other manufacturer… There is no phone on the market with all the functions + comfortable keyboard + big screen. Common guys!
agree!
I so very love this phone.!! E900 is sexy and superb..!!