They need to come up with a better excuse than 'space concerns'. Has anyone looked at the internal pictures now on the FCC site? There's plenty of room on the circuit board. A better excuse would be "it interfered with the GPS chip" or something along those lines.

How about a tilt sensor?

There's no room. Really.

Airflow issues?

makes me think of the line in seinfeld, "I can't spare a square, I just can't!"

So which of the folks who got a pre-release unit is going to be the first to take the N810 apart and show us some photos of the circuit boards?

I seriously hope it has the built-in FM *transmitter* that has been mentioned in several places. If that was added to the equation, I'd have to pull out the credit card.

But I think transmitter will be problemous e.g. in germany

So I think that would be not in.

It could be there but disabled? The right firmware would re-enable it but only when they have gotten it certified in the US and EU markets (otherwise Nokia would have their hands full controlling access to the enabling firmware on a country-by-country basis).

That would explain why the FM receiver is "not there" -- if it's part of a larger unit that can't be made available (yet) for regulatory reasons.

I'm quite certain that the N810 does not ship with a built-in FM transmitter. If it did, it would have been tested by the FCC. Even if it is disabled by default, it would require FCC certification as a transmitting device before being sold in the USA.