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Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Just by the way, this is a topic that is very much Been There, Done That

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...084#post170084

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...536#post169536
Well, at least I provided a photo so the comparison/contrast has something to hang on. And an actual price.

On the one hand, the D4 is twice the weight. Twice the volume. Three times the price (or six-plus times the price if you're talking N800).

On the other: it has 230,400 more pixels on the screen. 3.3 times faster CPU. 8 times the DDR RAM. 5 times the movie space storage.

I think that Nokia's ability to produce a fabulous web tablet at a price we can afford goes too much unremarked. I'm sure Nokia could make a D4-level device at a D4 price. But then they'd be just one among many. What other manufacturer has matched the Internet Tablet's weight, screen and price?

"More, bigger, faster" has driven computing development since the first microcomputer appeared in the late 1970's. We can ask Nokia for more, bigger, faster too, if we fall under the delusion that the web we want will come with that.

But it won't. It requires the painstaking adherence Nokia has taken to the needs of the walkaround web needs: smaller, lighter, cheaper have to be balanced against the basic "show me everything on the web" requirement.

Nokia seems to be the only company willing to go against the more-bigger-faster trend. I wonder how many of us on this forum would have tablets if the entry device was a $1525 D4?
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