Interesting point about the wimax thing. Nokia spend a whole bunch of money and time developing (or trying to develop) a wimax capable device. Wimax in the US is not well developed at all. Please spare me the "but i have it" or "i know a guy who has it" speech, because I am not denying that it exists. I'm just saying it's extremely limited. One could make a very good argument for the development of a PIM, which should be much less resource intensive and widely used than wimax.

Has anybody ever heard of the term multitasking? You don't have to drop everything you are doing to make a PIM. Dare I ask if one could make a PIM AND improve the tablet in other ways at the same time?

Whatever happened to the customer is always right? If enough people want a PIM, and I believe enough people do, then Nokia should satisfy their customer base and make a PIM. However, it seems that Nokia is unwilling to do so for one reason or the other. I guess Nokia's weakness in the tablets has always been on the software side. Pretty good piece of hardware though, and the linux community has really come through on the software side. Unfortunately 3rd party PIM's still have a long way to go.

Note: Even if Nokia were to make a barebones/piece of crap PIM, it could integrate into maemo and all the information could be saved when you make a backup file. It could integrate with contacts, the GPS, and alarm function. It would really be useful.

Double Note: Sorry for the long post.

Edit: Nobody "needs" a PIM. Heck, nobody "needs" a tablet. We are all talking about want, not need. All anybody needs is food and water and shelter from harsh environment. We are not in the caveman days and most people have moved beyond pure need.