But the tablets ARE only meant to be used for browsing the internet.

That's how they're advertised, as being for things like websites, blogs, e-mail etc.

That's why they're called "internet tablets", they're meant for using internet services. They're NOT meant to be laptops or PDAs or UMPCs.

Watch the official adverts and they don't even mention installing additional applications or anything that requires technical knowledge.

A lot of people on this forum use them for other stuff, but that other stuff isn't what the tablets were designed for, it's just Nokia left the door open for other stuff to see what happens. All of that other stuff is totally optional, you don't need to do it in order to use the tablet's main functions.



Sorry, I should clarify: same as in the particular application behaves the same way, rather than the entire system behaving the same way.


If your PC is working fine then it can be as userfriendly, but when something goes wrong the tablet is usually easier to fix, and there's a lot less that can go wrong on a tablet.

I say this out of experience with the relative I recommended the tablet to that led to the founding of the Internet Tablet School site. He was always having troubles with settings and error messages on Windows and Macintosh, but on the tablets there weren't really any problems after the first set up.