You're waaay too subtle for me fella, what was the solid hint again?

Apologies in advance for going OT on tangents:

I want a mostly-working device --- -open and -closed rarely figure in. I'd gladly have a closed-source device if it worked significantly better: Windows Mobile, I'm looking (vaguely) at you. Looking forward to my iPhone, too. :P

Things I expect to see:
Skype (wish I cared!
Better graphics performance (nothing major, but the YUV performance fix)
BT PAN support

Things I want to see:
Clear and simple ways to write replacements for the browser and e-mail applications
Clear and simple ways to change file association
Opera Plugin SDK

Things I doubt I'll ever see, but want:
PowerVR drivers
A media player a fraction as versatile as MPlayer
Working Orb
Fix for the bug where pressing the center on a popup link opens two windows
Speech recognition
Generic gesture API
Fully touch-based interface
Working e-mail (checkgmail is not a substitute, damnit)
Full port of wpa_supplicant so I can connect to my work/school networks
Actual implementations of enterprise WPA, not just GUIs
Significant hildon-desktop overhaul to get rid of wasted space
Fully working, entirely compatible, OS2007 on 770.

What I see in the 770 and 800 are largely closed operating systems: closed either literally, in the case of the drivers, or figuratively, in the case that it's so byzantine or poorly documented that it may as well be closed.

We are 100% dependent on Nokia to fix the browser and e-mail: we can't swap them out, and we can't improve them (I'm reasonably happy with the IM client, so it gets a pass here.) It's just as closed to me as Windows Mobile.

The RX-44 I think

I took that to mean a new (future) hardware platform... taking a wild stab, maybe a N800 with WiMAX?

If there have been any hints about new software enhancements on the existing N800 I'm still in the dark. Or I'm just slow on the uptake.

Cool! "EDIT: interesting. Closer look at the screenshot shows that initfs is identified as RX-44 while the product is shown (correctly) as RX-34. Hmm."

We're getting a new device ( please have kbd and/or hard cover!! ) and it's O/S version is backward compatable with N800 hardware - sweet! They did learn from 770 fiasco.

Are you saying that we will never-never see a new firmware? ;]

No, I didn't say that and I don't think the screen shot alone justifies that conclusion. Sure, new hardware will come as we all know and hopefully hardware abstraction will be improved, but that's not the hint I refer to.

So far no one has guessed right. :evil:

RX-34 and RX-44 are probably hardware specs more than particular pieces of hardware: RX-44 is probably a superset of RX-34.

I'm guessing this means we're seeing new drivers? I'd be happy to speculate on which ones, if the above line of thought is correct.

will it be able to make frozen margaritas?

Nokia calls those numbers "reference designators". They can refer to an entire platform, though, with multiple device iterations covered.

For instance, IF the company decided to create an E800, or even an N801, it could very well be an RX-34 device. RX-44, however, would imply a new platform unless there's something going on outside the norm. If it is a new device (which I currently have no way of knowing), well, nothing new there, is it?

And that's all I'm saying. And no, that isn't even remotely related to the Big Hint.