Thread: Found perfect convergence device. Its not a N8XX.
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
So what's your prediction on iPod Touches (not iPhones, because they're more expensive [requires a plan] so an iPhone would be more compared to say your "convergence" devices for phones), EEE PCs, and other netbooks? Considering the tablet and other tablet like devices all fall into those categories. Will all of those stop as well? For Nokia this is an opportunity to not only use the nXXX as a testing stage for their phones but also for a new market that has emerged.
This illustrates another good point in that... my sister wanted a laptop so that she can wander the house and look over the kids while she did the college and work and stuff. I gave her my old N800 and she's finding that she LOVES it because it's ALWAYS around when she can't lug a laptop around--even something as small as the eee wouldn't be as available all the time. It's not that she needs the cell phone radio--it's that she just likes having a COMPUTER that she can always have tucked in somewhere and just connect up to a wifi wherever she ends up (coffee shop, restaurant, at the car shop, etc.).

It's less about the ubiquity of the cell phone (although that would be good too) but more about the USEFULNESS of an open and flexible product that everyone can develop for (like a computer) that you can take EVERYWHERE (like a Palm or a Nokia N8x0).

There's always the Palm Centro--which I DO like a lot.. but, it seems that it has limitations in most cases when you get one (locked!).. primarily intentional limitations imposed by the cell phone company and Palm to 'prevent abuse' in their words. Unlocked Centros are quite nice.. but hella pricey and I'd rather get a BT cell phone and a Nokia tablet and tether them together for the price.