When will N900 ship?
 

When will Nokia's next-generation internet tablet (aka N900) first ship? Take your best guess about actual product ship dates, not product announcements or vaporware.

Re: When will N900 ship?
 

I want to pick September 2009

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There should be an option "by December 24th, 2008", and we should all vote for it. The power of positive thinking, you know...

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June 30th, 2009 is the only remotely realistic date.

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wheres is the cowboyneal option?
I thought the tablet would be released when its ready.

I wouldn't want to rush and screw up, but i also dont want to wait forever.

Shame they can't do a release early/release often - give us a tablet with bits of new hardware and SSU involves couriers bringing new components.

Re: When will N900 ship?
 

NEVER!

Mainly due to my firm conviction that the next tablet won't be named "n900" :p

Re: When will N900 ship?
 

SDK alpha release; sometime this November
Actual device release; Sometime in q2 of 2009

According to Nokia...

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beleive me....

Announcement ces 2009.

shipping 2 months later

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Interesting poll ... :-D

I feel almost tempted to vote.

Re: When will N900 ship?
 

Then don't vote!

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CES 2009 is January 8-11, 2009;
2 months later is March 8-11, 2009

Personally I think if Nokia doesn't announce a compelling replacement by CES they have defacto given up the market for MIDs.

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OK, sounds nice to talk about ship dates for the next Internet Tablet.

But what features old/new will it have?

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Oi, thats a risky question as the last thread to go there already has over 1300 posts.
I just hope it doesn't make my n800 too obsolete.

Re: When will N900 ship?
 

So can we see what Igor voted for? ;)

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Voted for the June option. Maybe it will be out in March, but I really don't hold my breath on that...

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It seems a bit worrying to me that the "quiet desperation" option has apparently gone mainstream.

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Karel,
What I see as more interesting is people have changed focus slightly from waiting for Nokia to produce a kickass piece of kit and are actually getting of their arses and identifying what is needed ourselves.

I am happy to wait and would rather not rush this as long as we know where they are upto and that our voices are heard.

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If they don't come out in March 2009 then what? Buy a competing device? I don't think I have seen one yet, at least for me the OpenPandora is not one.

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That's right, but from now to March 2009 there is a long time. some new products will come out for Christmas and I bet that at CES 2009 we will see a bit of new stuff coming up. As the time goes by the ground will become more crowdy. I would not be suprised to see ASUS and ACER to introduce nice tablets... and Gigabyte is working hard... It would be a pity for Nxxx to loose the head ground they have today.

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didn't we have a poster on here whose wife was the admin assistant to a higher up in nokia, and could provide definitive answers to the launch dates of these products.

what was his name again? where is his "oh-so-reliable" information?

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There will be a whole bunch of Atom-based and other mids in 2009.

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With two-hour battery life for twice the weight ? There'll be a lot of talk about them but you'll never see one, just like the UMPCs...

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:D

I think I remember.... The date was June something. Although the question was different then, we can still take this as the definitive answer. It will be as true as it was then.

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AAAAHHH! No! Don't resurrect him! We don't need "reliable" guesses that bad!