First off, the hardware differences will likely be WELL worth the upgrade. Both the OMAP 4440 & 4430 processors will be a significant improvement over the N900’s OMAP 3430. That’s no exaggeration either… say hello to multicore processing in your hand!!! According to TI they’re able to do this because of the improvements they’ve made in power management, allowing you to watch 1080P video for 10 hours on a single charge (try watching 10 hours of any video on ANY handheld device/smart phone)!
The existence of MeeGo proves that Nokia isn’t trying to just make a smart phone OS, but a portable one. What does that mean? MeeGo isn’t a smart phone OS trying to find a use on your Laptop, Netbook, & tablet, much like Android has been (hence the reason Google is trying for their Chrome OS), but it is a netbook, tablet OS running on your phone. The difference between the two is significant in that Adobe’s (much hated by Apple) Flash will be installed, just like on your desktop, but don’t worry HTML5 will likely be supported too. Contrary to Apple, you can have both!
What else can we expect from the N920? 64Gb built in memory, with the option to add a microSDHC card (up to 32Gb). Hopefully Nokia will upgrade ram to a respectable 1Gb (with the ability to add another 1Gb from storage memory) from the N900’s 256mb ram + 768Mb virtual. This should allow most users to install nearly every application and still have a fast system when running 6 or 7 “memory hog” apps in the background.
I also suspect that Nokia might take the 12 megapixel camera from the N8 and throw it on the N920, allowing for 720p video recording. And pictures that will leave iPhone 3GS crying at their decade old version of a camera phone. Of course with the ability to record HD videos, it won’t be useful if you can’t display it on a nice large screen over HDMI (The OMAP4 processor supports this). Also I think it might be possible that Nokia will be changing the one thing that has remained the same in the last 5 versions of Maemo devices… screen resolution. Of course this will probably mean the screen size will have to grow a little from the N900, but staying below the N810’s screen size is important for device size too.
Capacitive touch is coming to what I now call the “Tablet-Phone” (previously “Internet Tablet”) lineup, and I imagine Nokia will have multi-touch capability, though in a patent war with Apple, Nokia might not “enable” this feature, leaving it up to an outside app/plugin to enable it.
On the N900, work is already being done to enable the front facing camera for use with Skype, and other streaming video services. Most likely the N920 will have this feature when the box arrives at your door. It’s almost laughable that iPhone users are just realizing the benefits of a front facing camera, with the leaked specs of the iPhone 4th generation. I could see Nokia opting for a better front facing, and if they did, it would make video calls on the Nokia N920 the best experience next to a Desktop/Laptop experience.
Until September, we’ll only be able to speculate (unless Eldar Murtazin get’s his hands on one [like he did with the N900 & N8 ] before NW2010), but the N920 looks like it will be worth the upgrade already.
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