Hm-m. I wonder if what we're seeing is preparation first for a Wimaxed N800 and then a Wimaxed N810.

Call them the N820 and N830.

No reason to keep the N800 around with a more powerful N820 out.

And we've all seen the photos of the putative N830.

Personally, I think one of the core strategies Nokia has been following is to price this device as low as possible to hit the sweet spot in electronic purchasers' buying. I mean, look at how much more expensive UMPC's are. I think they want to own the market as it grows up so that they'll make out like bandits when it grows explosively.

And maybe they're going to produce the N820 for less than the N800 by freezing the webcam a la the N810 (front side only) and doing whatever they did to the N810 when they added a GPS and a keyboard but didn't add any weight. Surely that means some things got consolidated . . .

I argue that one of the precepts of controlling the market is to get way out in front of your competition on the manufacturing learning curve. If you're working on your fourth or fifth generation when your competitor is on its first, you should be way ahead in the knowledge of what it takes to make things cheaper and more reliably.