Photo 1: Top view - overview of the device. So far, the only things this has in common with the N800 is the silver face, presence of a user-facing camera, D pad, and a large-ish screen - possibly touch. There are some serious departures from the N800 in this design: No stereo speakers, bezel buttons, or zoom/maximize keys.
Photo 2: The back certainly has a Nokia logo and is matte black like the N800 but there is no stylus slot to be found.
Photo 3: The zoomed in view emphasizes that there are no hardware buttons optimized for internet use: Just a decent slider keyboard, D pad, and menu button. The 770 and N800 had dedicated zoom, maximize, reload/escape, and home buttons specifically to enhance internet browsing.What does this all mean? We've seen what it does not have. Let's look at what it HAS:
- Large screen - possibly touch.
- Full keyboard and D pad.
- Slim, sliding form factor.
- Nseries Logo
This story is developing, of course, so I will post more as it comes. I dug through Nokia's latest FCC filings and didn't find anything yet.
6 comments:
To me it looks like the result of a kid doing some modding and faking for to become posted on engadget
Zoom in on left corner there is logo n10 (photoshop could help) or something and on the right corner has drawn number 1. (maybe prototype device no. 1)
Onto left is also memorycard place. Nokia is so big that they can produce protos that will never come out.
Why would they make a crappy little chicklet keyboard when the virtual keyboard is already very good. Why would the put the D-pad on slide out keyboard so you would have to pull out the keyboard every time you need to use it. It doesn't even look good and if it was real, why would Nokia let that loser have it and take pictures of it.
Mark, they'd make that little keyboard because that's what a lot of people complain about. "The 770/N800 would be perfect if it just had a hardware keyboard!" That's probably one of the most common complaints or feature requests for those who don't actually own/use a tablet.
And I do believe this is the next generation of the Nokia internet tablet. It's not a replacement for the N800 as much as a different option for those who desperately want a built in keyboard.
When i look at that keyboard, i see a lot of buttons for games. :)
If we could hold that comfortably while using left hand for dpad and right hand for game buttons, it could be great!
A hardware keyboard could also make porting some games easier by obviating the need for a hildon wrapper around apps (SDL games).
Speaker(s) could be side-facing and still audible. Remember they have to go with design trends, and sleek is "in".
I'd really love to have a slide-out keyboard, but I think Nokia would be making a huge mistake if they didn't add a second D-pad for games and keep some controls available for when the keyboard is slid away.
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