Every week, random, seemingly anonymous Nokia handsets quietly pick up FCC approval. Most will never see the light of day on an American carrier, and the ones that do have usually already been announced so that by the time we figure out what the FCC filing refers to, it's uninteresting. Today, though, we noticed a Nokia RX-51 get certification, and we were immediately intrigued; standard Nokia phones have an "RM" designation, so "RX" has us thinking that this is no ordinary phone. Taking a peek at the SAR documentation reveals that it rolls deep with AWS 3G, just the kind that T-Mobile USA needs to do its thing. The final piece in this amazing puzzle has to be the ID placement doc, which shows the outline of a device far wider than your standard dumbphone. Where are we going with this? You might recall
MobileCrunch's information from a while back suggesting that T-Mobile USA would be
getting a
Maemo 5-powered superphone codenamed "Rover" -- and, well, we're pretty sure this is it. Stay tuned -- things are about to get interesting.
posted Aug 7th 2009 5:24PM
At last!
Bring it on.
great news
hope there's a data only option for the short term
Oh yeah - bring it on :)
This is EXciting! I wasn't sure if things were going to pan out for this when the News first Broke months ago but an FCC listing is H U G E!!!!
This Thing is REAL Baby and I for one cannot wait to see how it Turns out. Even if I don't get this thing its #HUGE!
Oh. My. God. This makes my life worth living.
AWS Nokia? I don't care what it is thats ace over anything else. Sorry, HTC Nokia has you beat. Maemo-5 has my heart!
T-Mobile USA for the win!
how is the form factor? With a physical keyboard? Wasn't it supposed to have a 3.5 inch screen, and in this case why would it be bigger than the N97?
its a tablet, of course it would be bigger than the N97
if you are curious just check this image
[img]http://i29.tinypic.com/29kw6sh.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i30.tinypic.com/351wbnm.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i29.tinypic.com/kf5agl.jpg[/img]
thanks to original uploader at fjb kaskus (www.kaskus.us)
if you are curious just check this image
[img]http://i26.tinypic.com/1zvfl2g.jpg/[img]
[img]http://i26.tinypic.com/11lnerr.jpg[/img]
thanks to original uploader at fjb kaskus (www.kaskus.us)
The battery isn't very big - the music 5800 uses it. I have little hope this will be anything very useful.
This looks more like the 1500mAh battery of the E71/N97 than the 5800..
Wow some very excited people for a phone/tablet for T-mo. Can't see why.
Maybe because some of us can't stand AT&T or Verizon? Oh, and a $10 "land line" beats the crap out of anything else. T-MO rocks.