I found this on an article about WiMAX:

"In a separate keynote yesterday, Sean Maloney, Intel Corp.'s chief sales and marketing officer, said Intel has developed a small module card called Echo Peak that offers both WiMax and Wi-Fi over the draft 802.11n specification, which will begin appearing in Nokia 800 series handhelds. And in another example of how WiMax will be widespread, he demonstrated integrated WiMax capability onstage inside a laptop, not using a PC card."

Wireless-N would certainly be a neat addition to further future-proof the device along with WiMAX. I do kind of wish they'd put an HSDPA modem in instead of WiMAX, but Nokia seems to hate the USA in regards to HSDPA. Although they do seem to be warming up recently...

Also, for those of you who aren't savvy with fiscal quarters, I checked on Wikipedia and 2Q is typically from Jan 1 - Mar 31. Does anyone know if Nokia operates on a different schedule?
(See corrected post below.)

Being released in such a close timeframe to the N810, it is pretty likely it will be the same hardware with the addition of WiMAX, right?

i thought 2Q was April-june?

It looks like you might be right on the 2Q dates. I can't really find a clear definition online though, and it seems to vary from company to company.

The Wikipedia dates are apparently for the US government's fiscal year, so Nokia's could easily be different.

This Register article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08...ia_q2_results/) supports what you are saying:
"The figures for the three months to 30 June show Nokia turning over €12.6bn, and making €2.36bn in profit." [in reference to 2Q 2007 earnings]

Too bad.

EDIT: According to this (http://cobrands.hoovers.com/global/c...tml?COID=41820) their fiscal year ends in December like the regular calendar, so 2Q would in fact be April - June.

From an Intel document*:
Nokia Nseries Internet Tablets,
Among the early products anticipated to be powered by Intel WiMAX chipsets will be
the Nokia N800 series Internet Tablets, expected to ship in 2008. Running opensource
Linux, a Mozilla-based browser, and an array of popular applications, the device
will deliver full-featured Internet access through Sprint’s Xohm WiMAX network.

The Intel® WiMAX Connection product family includes the 2200, 2300R, 2320R and 2400 chips. The 2320R might be the most possible candidate for inclusion?

*Deliver WiMAX Faster: Enabling fast design-in, small form factors, and energy-efficient performance with an integrated WiMAX chipset solution (PDF 534KB)

It depends on if that Q2 or Financial Q2 which are something different ; also if financial Q2 check if Finland have a different Date range, I know Ireland upto ~2 years ago the financial year ended in April IIRC

This could explain why the current N800s are getting "blown out" - but no mention of the N810s?

hmmm so ur saying since i bought my n800 in dec i wont be able to use wimax?

It really doesn't matter when an N800 is purchased-- wimax will not be built-in to that model. Wimax variants will have a derivative number.

Note: take third-party reports with a grain of salt. They tend to oversimplify. Nokia official announcements should provide more accurate details about models.

I think maybe Nokia should produce a whole 'nother tablet with the release of their WiMax N800 and N810 (I am assuming they will release wimax versions of both?). I think for the next tablet they need to combine the best features of all the tablets and stick 512mb of RAM and a 600mhz processor or something. That would be freakin' sweet.

no comment.