I'm most worried about design, appearance and ergonomics.

Nokia seems pretty decent at getting the hardware where it needs to go.

I'm amazed at people like sachin007 who are obsessed with specs and only seem to care that numbers increased not that the increased numbers mean anything.

Yes i am concerned about the 128mb ram.

It is totally unacceptable if true. You will find most people disappointed with that.

I did a search on that Samsung part number and found this:
http://www.samsung.com/global/system...R_DDR_code.pdf

This document was last updated on November 2008, and mysteriously there is a part with "2G" as 4th and 5th digit marked as red. Does red mean that it is a brand new part that was just added? Either way, this is just to show that there is 256MB RAM chip available (or available soon?) in the same package. If so then RX-51 should work with either 128MB or 256MB or RAM without any change in motherboard, just a change in RAM chip. (Maybe this happened with the Pandora case too, when the 256MB chips became available they just announced the memory upgrade...)

The newest Nseries smartphones with built-in FM transmitters show "Nokia" as RDS information, the SE feature phones with FM transmitters even send song infos afaik...
Seems like Nokia is going to integrate the next gen tablets nicely into the Nseries range, since FM transmitters were called a new standard feature for Nseries when the N79/N85 were presented

Yes. Also the kernel changelong mentions rx-51 for the first time in March (or maybe April) so at that time getting 256MB was probably hard even if they planned to use it in future. For Pandora the price difference between those two RAM chips is < 9 USD (current Digikey price in relatively small quantities).

5 buttons? Would that mean there'll be less hardware buttons? Depending on how you count, now we have:

1. + (zoom in)
2. - (zoom out)
3. maximize
4. home
5. menu
6. escape ("back")
7. plus 5 buttons on the D-pad

If you know anything about digital photography, you know that 5MP is plenty big enough; I've seen a study where they tested people to see if they could see the difference that extra megapixels made in highly enlarged photos, and the vast majority couldn't even tell the difference.

I personally don't want gigantic 8 or 10 megapixel photos jamming up my memory cards.

The question is not, "How many megapixels?" but, "what kind of optics?" and you can't learn about that from the kernel source.

EDIT: The other problem is sufficient lighting, and that usually means a flash. And a flash is a real battery drainer.


Some interesting reading:
The Megapixel Myth
Do Megapixels Make A Difference?

escape sends normal key code for escape key and d-pad sends up/down/left/right/enter so is should be OK, what surprised me is that current tablets map those buttons to F4-F8

I've got two cameras of nearly the same model, the only difference is that one is 6 megapixels and the other 8 (IIRC).. everything else is the same. Most importantly, the CCD is the same size, so the 8MP version has smaller pixels.

The result? Smaller pixels: Smaller light-collecting area. Less photons: the light sensitivity went out the window. The 'new' higher-pixel model is close to useless compared to the earlier model, as the 6MP version works just fine in twilight while it's difficult to even focus in indoor lightning or cloudy afternoon with the 8MP version. And, as the new model compensates for less light sensitivity by slowing down the shutter I get much shakier images.

No, give me max. 6-7MP any day, the pixel mania only results in bigger pictures for no reason, and less light sensitivity. At least for compact cameras. The best SLR cameras (with large CCDs too) can afford many megapixels, but I wish they could leave the compact cameras (and by extension, phone cameras) out of this *****ic race. Heck, it's quite impossible to buy anything below 10MP these days - I've tried. Argh..

OT... but I was wondering why my earlier old 3Mpix Olympus appeared superior to my new 6Mpix Olympus, while the optics were very similar. Now I think you have answered to my question...