Yes, you're right. I was thinking of Slashdot. Their moderation system is quite the beautiful thing to behold. Spend enough time logged in to the site and you get a handful of moderator points every so often, and you can distinguish between many different kinds of "good" posts, as well as having the ability to mod down bad posts (which is mildly discouraged through other elegant mechanisms)

Well I suppose I could do the ultimate modding down and delete the post

But we're straying off topic here, back on topic!

Slasdot is the forum king. But it only works if you allow anonymous posting. The moderators on this site won't even allow us to anonymously tag. Anonymous posting combined with finite moderation is the best thing to date. But it seems to need a critical mass, and I'm wondering if this site has it. Read slashdot's FAQ when you have a moment.

And now back to N900 sightings:

PDAdb has added the N900 to the "future" category (which, as far as I can tell, is "more than just a rumor, but not yet official")

Wow very detailed even the screen type and analog radio receiver with RDS...hmmm?

It also says "Directional-Pad: 4 -way"

Do arrow keys count as directional pads?

The viewable screen size seems very small...

Display:Type: color transflective TFT display
Display;Color+Depth: 16 bit/pixel (65536 scales)
Display+Diagonal: 3.5 " (89 millimetres)
Display;Resolution: 800 x 480 (384000 pixels)
Viewable_Display_Size: 3 " x 1.8 " (76.32 x 45.79 millimetres)
Dot_Pitch: 266.3 pixel/inch (0.0954 millimetre/pixel)

etailed Technical Specifications of Nokia N900 Internet Tablet (Nokia Rover)
Brand: Nokia
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Manufacturer: Nokia
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Hardware-Designer: Nokia
Project_Codename: Nokia Rover
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Model:ID: RX-51
Expected+Release_Date: November, 2009
Predecessor;Model: Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
Physical:Attributes
Software+Environment
Embedded-Operating-System: Nokia Internet Tablet OS Maemo 5.0
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Operating:System_Kernel: Linux 2.6.28
Microprocessor,:Chipset
CPU: Texas Instruments OMAP 3430
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Width_of;Machine_Word: 32 bit
CPU;Core: ARM Cortex-A8
Level+1+cache: 32KiB data cache / 32 KiB instruction cache
Instruction:Set: ARMv7
Memory,;Storage-capacity
RAM+type: DDR SDRAM
RAM+capacity: 128 MiB
ROM;type: Flash EEPROM
ROM;capacity: 256 MiB
Secondary:ROM+type: Flash EEPROM
Secondary_ROM+capacity: 1908 MiB
Secondary_ROM:capacity_in+bytes: 2 GB (billion bytes)
Graphical+subsystem
Display-Type: color transflective TFT display
Display:Colorepth: 16 bit/pixel (65536 scales)
Display-Diagonal: 3.5 " (89 millimetres)
Display_Resolution: 800 x 480 (384000 pixels)
Viewable-Display_Size: 3 " x 1.8 " (76.32 x 45.79 millimetres)
Dot-Pitch: 266.3 pixel/inch (0.0954 millimetre/pixel)
Audio_Subsystem
Audio;Channel(s): stereo sound
Analog/Digital Converter
(Recording): 16 bit nominal quantization
48000 Hz sampling frequency
Digital/Analog Converter
(Playing): 16 bit resolution
48000 Hz holding frequency
Microphone(s): mono sound
Loudspeaker(s): stereo sound
Audio+Output: 3.5mm plug
Cellular-Phone
Cellular_Networks: GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS850, UMTS1700, UMTS2100
Cellular_Data;Links: CSD, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA
Cellular_Antenna: Internal antenna
SAR+(head)+UMTS1700: 0.369 W/kg
Control_Peripherals
Positioning+Device: Touchscreen
Primary;Keyboard: Slide-out QWERTY-type keyboard, 38 keys
Automatic keyboard backlight (upon press of any key)
Directional:Pad: Four-way (without action button)
Scroll+Wheel: Not supported
Interfaces
Expansion;Interfaces: microSD, microSDHC, TransFlash, SDIO
Supports High Capacity (SD 2.0/HC) memory cards with capacity of up to 32GB
USB: USB 2.0 host/client, Hi-Speed (480Mbit/s), USB On-The-Go 1.0 compliant
USB Series Micro-B (Micro-USB) connector
Bluetooth_(802.15): Bluetooth 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate, Internal antenna
Wireless+LAN/Wi-Fi+(802.11): IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, 54 Mbit/s
Internal antenna
Infrared+Gate: Not supported
Multimedia_Broadcast
Analog_Radio: FM radio (87.5-108MHz) with RDS radio reciever
Proprietary headset as antenna
Digital_Media:Broadcast: Not supported
Satellite+Navigation
Built-in+GPS-module: Supported
GPS-Protocol: NMEA 0183
GPS-Antenna: Internal antenna
Complementary:GPS+Services: Assisted GPS
Built-in;Digital-Camera
Sensor_Type: CMOS sensor
Resolution: 2608 x1960 pixels (5.11MP)
Autofocus_(AF): Supported
Optical;Zoom: 1 x
Macro-Mode: No information
Built-in:Flash: mobile light (LED)
Camcorder: 640x480 pixels
Recordable+Image;Formats: JPG
Recordable+Video-Formats: 3GP, MPEG4
Power:Supply
Battery;Technology: Supported
Battery-Build: removable
Battery:Capacity: 1320 mAh
Additional-Details
Additional;Features:

* GPRS Class 12
* Bluetooth stereo audio profile (A2DP
* AVRCP)
* UPnP
* FM transmitter

Datasheet:State: Incomplete specifications
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Datasheet:Added: Aug 10, 09 17:32:40

From the same pda site.. according to them maemo 5 will be released October 15....hmmm after the summit...

Nokia Internet Tablet OS Maemo 5.0
Simplified operating system datasheet

Full Name: Nokia Internet Tablet OS Maemo 5.0
Short Name: IT2009
Developer: Nokia
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Predecessor: Nokia Internet Tablet OS 2008 Edition Maemo 4.1 (Diablo)
Characteristics
Operating System Family: Linux operating systems
Operating System Kernel: Linux 2.6.28
Supported CPU Instruction Set(s): ARM
Additional Details
Related Page: http://maemo.org/
Datasheet Time: Aug 10, 09 18:10:38
Datasheet Views: 41 views

The maths checks out. The diagonal of a 3" x 1.8" screen is indeed 3.5", and 3" x 1.8" is in the same ratio as 800x480.

That would make the N900 diagonal 85% of the N810 diagonal, which makes the screen area (in square inches or square mm) around 73% of the N810.

Because of the 800x480 aspect ratio, the screen area of the N900 (5.4 square inches) is 4.5% less than that of the iPhone (5.654 square inches), even though their diagonals are the same.

Regards,
Roger

i thought the video record resolution was 800 x 480, the same as the screen resolution...........?