it's all gone a bit quiet on the new NIT front - when does the exclusive secret thing with the plans run out?

Sorry, I don't get the 45 days reference?

AFAIK it is still secret, exclusive and going exactly to plan.

Nokia's request for documents at the FCC to remain secret on certain things (images of the new tablet, for example) run out 45 days after the request was made on the 25th of September.

That would be on or around the 9th November. The Nokia flagship London store is scheduled to open in November. Is that a coincidence I wonder.

yes, it is. The standard non-disclosure time is 45 days at the FCC.

Ah, but did they decide when to give it to the FCC with the store opening date in mind?

By the way, I noticed in the new "maemo 4 Quick Start Guide" that there's a GPS framework in Chinok. That's another good indication that a new tablet will have a built-in GPS.

I haven't looked at the Chinook specification - is it a GPS framework? Or merely a location framework?

There are tools like Plazer that can roughly identify your location based on the access-point you're connected to. There's geo-location of IPs (even more crude). There are a couple other methods to gather information about physical location, GPS only being one of them (and the most accurate, but dependent upon satellite availability).

Combination of these methods, like GeoClue does is the best approach. GPS is great when it has a fix, but has no idea of your location when indoors.

For example IP-based geolocation is not very accurate, but can anyway be used for things like getting local weather or setting the timezone.