Thread: N900 specs revealed
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Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
No, but the whole point of *THIS* thread is that there's a leak that says the N900 will be a phone, not just a device with GSM data. Really, read the first post in the thread, and the article it links to.
Says who?

Originally Posted by Dr Tran View Post
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/05/24/exclusive-everything-there-is-to-know-about-nokias-next-tablet/

Well, we already knew most of the specs already, but there's a bit of new info (if not merge with an old N900 thread)

N900 will have GSM radios and triband 3G with support for T-Mobile.
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Dates:
* T-Mobile International: July 2009
* T-Mobile USA: August/September 2009
* Middle East, Asia, South-East Asian Pacific: July 2009
* Europe: October 2009
Um, nowhere is the word "phone" mentioned in the title, or even in the article the first post linked to.
(Perhaps your post was merged into this thread and we are experiencing the problems mentioned earlier that result with thread editing? )

Just because it has GSM radios does not make it a traditional voice phone.

and...

Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
Because it was already announced that Maemo 5 would have GSM *data* support; such things require some aspect of carrier access.

Just because a device as GSM *data* access doesn't make it a phone; but it *can* make it a device that a carrier will sell to improve ARPU numbers.

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We may have a winner!

Average Revenue Per Unit is the magic metric in the cell phone industry... The way Nokia may be doing it could make everybody a winner if it succeeds, and not cause to much damage if it doesn't.

In any event success or failure will not be measured against any other device or be affected by decisions that any particular operators Board of Directors/executives may make.

Let someone else be the iPhone/Blackberry/Pre killer. Hell, let them all churn market share back and forth. Meanwhile the Fightin' Fish o' Finland whittles away at a market that required less investment from it to enter than it did for the other three.

In the end, the return on that investment is what determines the winners and the losers.