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One more thing: I think Nokia needs a better name than N-Series. For one thing, that seems to apply to the N95, etc., as well as the N770, N800, and N810. And saying "N800" is just awkward. For example, talking to my girlfriend, saying, "Do you want to take my N800 with you?" -- that's just clunky. (Hence, this is embarrassing, but we've nicknamed it Nubbins. So I can say, "Do you want to take Nubbins with you?")

It's also bad marketing since there is no good catch-all name that includes the three tablets they've already sold plus those in the future. "Nokia Internet Tablet" is too long a name and lacks cachet.

I thought "Blackberry" was a stupid name when I first saw one in 1999, but at least people can say, "I use a Blackberry," and you know what they're talking about. It wouldn't have caught on so fast if one person was saying, "I use a RIM B450" and someone else was saying, "I use a RIM B7000." But that's the kind of language we NIT users are stuck with.