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Originally Posted by misiak View Post
If anyone in this thread didn't go to http://n1.nokia.com/ to check tech specs:



Btw, what does "eMMC 5.0" mean? It has Intel Atom cpu - I bet they'll protect the bootloader somehow, but when it gets cracked... Maybe it will be possible to install any Linux on it (not only Sailfish)

Another note - am I blind or is it pure-WiFi tablet? No GSM/3G/LTE/whatever modem at all...?

edit: and almost 8 inches screen... if it will be possible to install Linux on it, and a nice case with builtin keyboard will be available, maybe I will replace my old netbook.
Pure tablet,
unless they goofed and left an open PCIe slot for a SIM carrier.

As far as hacking past the bootloader,
I will not rehash what I already said about the horrors of
INTEL Chit-On-a-Ship systems and how wildly unworkable they are.
(I will note that many Chinese tablet touts seem to avoid
the use of the term Bay Trail in their advertisements)

Cap that with a
  • locked Android bootloader
    (unlock that then you spend weeks trying to load stuff, hopelessly)
  • a single USB 2.0 port (?= means they could not afford 3.0 =?)
    - a single port is an utterly frakwitted idea worse than no USB port at all
  • and a complete lack of phone system connectivity
    (Nada, zip, zilch, empty, zero GPRS/LTE)
(what exactly were they hallucinating on, really ?)
and you have a tablet
which will be bought by the dozens
and filling landfills by appointment.
If this is designed by new Nokia trainees and none of the old hands,
it would be almost mandatory they grease a BROADCOM
WIFI+BLUETOOTH SDIO interface into the backside,
just to make matters officially impossible.
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Last edited by theonelaw; 2014-11-19 at 03:00. Reason: Correcting the bootloader bit
 

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