Confirmed: Cheaper castrated Nokia N82 without WLAN and 3G to be released
Posted by Stefan on Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 9:40 am under Nokia
Here is a screenshot of my current Nokia N82 thanks to Device Status:
Notice how it is RM-313. On the FCC we have something called RM-314, hat tip to Howard Forums. With a little bit of investigation it became clearly obvious via Forum Nokia that their would be a second Nokia N82:
The Nokia N82 is a GSM/WCDMA dual mode portable multimedia computer supporting EGSM 850/900/1800/1900/WCDMA 2100 HSDPA and WLAN or EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 for some regions.
Judging by the label listed on the FCC, this might be something for the Asian market, but it may as well come to the states as a cheaper, castrated N82:
November 16th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Actually intomobile misquoted the nokia site (or it was later changed), if you follow the link it reads “The Nokia N82 is a GSM/WCDMA dual mode portable multimedia computer supporting EGSM 850/900/1800/1900/WCDMA 2100 HSDPA and WLAN or EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 for some regions Use the Nokia N82 for connecting to mobile Broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G) with faster downloading than 3G.” Theres more to the sentence. I find it poorly written, confusing, and hardly confirmation of anything.
November 16th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Actually never mind, they just forgot the period, as indicated by the capital “U.” Well I hope they don’t try to pass this piece of junk (seriously no wifi?) off on the north american market.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I don’t think you should use a verb like “castrate” in relation to a non-living creature.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:48 am
You shouldn’t post your IMEI like that
November 16th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
This would be a huge mistake if they released this version of the phone in the USA. All of the hard work they have put into the N95 push would be down the drain…they need to keep churning out the high-end phones with high-end features. They’d better not pull an E62 -
November 16th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Is it targeted at low cost markets ?
As the n82 is slightly expensive ..
November 17th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Ouch!
Castrated?!
Now there’s a graphic I could have done without.
Owwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!
November 17th, 2007 at 12:17 am
It has a CMII ID so it’s probably intended for the People’s Republic of China.
CMII = China Ministry of Information Industry
November 18th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Actually, I’m 99% certain this is for the China market, as China does not have 3G, and China does not allow devices with international standard Wifi to be built in China.
January 16th, 2008 at 5:11 am
I accidentally purchased one of these RM-314’s in China. :neutral:: http://wtanaka.com/node/7767
April 8th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Hello,
I have a question… Could I upgrade through firmware updating in orderto have wlan and 3G features enabled?
June 27th, 2008 at 2:12 am
@Ogami_ito - Yes, this is a Chinese market specific phone.
@Marcel - no - if you try to flash the RM-314 N82 with the firmware for the RM-313 variant you will end up with a phone that doesn’t boot at all.