Answering eiffel:

> (3) Tell us as something substantial about the form factor.

We don't especulate about future devices. This is what device announcements are made for.

Also, why developers or community members need to worry about anything before a beta SDK is out? Of course I see reasons for interest, but not for the pre-panic seen in some threads lately. Note that no Nokia representative has said a single thing about future hardware, so any fears or conclusions are made on top of pure forum speculation.


> Something like this would be enough: "There will be a device with a
> keyboard. There might also be a tablet, and might also be a device
> with a form factor not seen before. They will all be pocketable,
> although larger than a cellphone." And dammit, if there's not going
> to be a D-pad, just tell us will you, and let us get on with coping with
> it. Obviously all this stuff has already been decided. Can't you just let
> a junior staffer leak the concept video? It seemed to work well for the
> 5800.

Ditto. And in addition to that let me remind once more that Maemo is a platform being developed to support several devices. The architecture it is already quite flexible and this flexibility is what allows any device program to think in different form factors, hardware keys and etc.