These are pictures of a Nokia prototype called RX-51.  Now, the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet was the RX-44 and the N800 was RX-34, so it’s fair to say that with a product code of RX-51 this is likely to be the new Internet Tablet running the new Maemo 5 OS, and it may well be labelled the N900 by Nokia when announced (expected next month at Nokia World).

Mores pictures and technical specs after the break…

So, what do we know about it, beyond the fact it’s an Internet Tablet.  When, unlike previous tablets, it’s also got GSM/GPRS/3G support in there, and it may well function not just as a tablet, but as a phone as well (notice the small earpiece grille in the pictures to the left of the screen area).  It’s a sliding device, just like the N810, but does not angle up like the Nokia N97 does.  Although the keyboard layout looks like that on the Nokia N97, it’s not quite the same, but does pretty much exactly match the layout of the (also expected at Nokia World) Nokia N97 Mini.

In terms of specs, we’ve seen the following list on the internet:

• 3.5″ 800 x 480 resistive touch screen
• 32 GB inbuilt memory, with MicroSDHC slot for expansion
• FM receiver (returning to the tablet range, having been missing from the N810) and transmitter
• GSM / GPRS / 3G, WLAN and Bluetooth (including A2DP)
• ARM Cortex A8 processor at 600MHz
• 256MB RAM, with an additional 512MB Virtual RAM
• 1350mAh battery
• Video out
• Charging via USB
• 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and cover
• VGA front facing camera (presumably for video calls)
• Accelerometer, GPS and Ambient light sensor
• Kick stand

Now,it’s said to be able to run Firefox 3.5 and OpenOffice, but I think that’s likely to be the new Firefox Mobile browser that’s been in Beta on the existing tablets.

Either way, both this and the Nokia N97 Mini look very interesting devices, and if Nokia can get both in the shops before Christmas, they are likely to sell very well…

These pictures are all over the Nokia forums across the world, and no one is attributing the actual original website / forum where they were posted, so we are unable to do so either, although many sources are linking to this forum, which may well be the original source.

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