First Engadget then Symbian-Freak rolled out reports of the US-bound N78 being a castrated version. Not the case, it seems. The one found on the FCC website is actually a Chinese model, and the originally announced spec for the N78 should still stand.
Engadget has actually managed to update its story, no doubt after reading this comment posted by Mark Durrant, a Nokia spokesman “Nokia manufactures 3 different variants of the N78, depending on the area where they will be sold. As Erik suggested, RM-236 is for sale in China, where regulatory requirements do not allow mobile devices to include WCDMA and WiFi bands. RM-236 is effectively the same device as the RM-235, on which the testing has been based, apart from the removal of the WCDMA and WiFi bands.”
With Europe and China nailed, Durrant goes on to highlight what’s happening for the US “RM-342 is the N78 variant that will be for sale in the American market - it contains WCDMA850, WCDMA1900 and WiFi; this will be filed to the FCC in due course.”
It’s reassuring both to see that the US isn’t getting a castrated version of the N78 and even better that Nokia is actually reading and responding to this stuff. More of the same please!
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