For all you folks who haven't been stranded on Mars, stuck under a rock with fingers in your ears shouting, "La la la la" you may have heard something about 3rd party applications opening up on the iPhone.
Amateurs.
The real 3rd party hacker friendly device was announced today by Nokia and we spent some time with the little web surfer. It's awesome. It's shiny. And it finally sports a keypad. Here's the skinny:
- Wi-Fi compatible (802.11b/g) No n spec though. Drat!
- Weighs just a hair under 8 ounces (7.97)
- Allegedly will be able to work for up to 4 hours of continuous usage. (We don't doubt it—Nokia has set the gold standard for battery life on its portables.)
- DDR RAM 128MB and 256 MB of Flash
- Ambient Light Sensor (for screen brightness and keyboard lights.)
- For video it supports: #GP, AVI, H.263, H.264, MP4, ASF, WMV, MPEG-1,MPEG-4, and Real Video
- Audio: MP3, WMA,AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, RealAudio, WAV
- Image Support: BMP, GIF, ICO, JPE, JPEG, PNG, TIF,/TIFF, SVG, Tiny, WBMP
- Storage is 2GB of internal memory, upgradable to 8GB (via miniSD and microSD)
- All this can be yours for just $480
- Available in November 2007
- Scroll down to see more pics of the N810!
The unit itself is just as solid and substantial as the N800. It slides up with a satisfying "click" to reveal a full backlit QWERTY keypad. Finally! The pad itself is a bit on the small side, but anyone with even basic dexterity should be able to get used to it.
But third party aps? ) Oh you betcha. The N810, just like its older sibling the N800, is completely open source running on the maemo Linux based OS. Nokia claims that they want the geekiest of the geeks to open it up and develop kick ass apps for the device. We're with them on this one. The G-Lab will also have a full on review of the N810 plus graphic autopsy pics in the next few days. You'll read it here first.
