at one point, i think they were close to it or maybe even did.

my assumption (granted, pure speculation) is that from a marketing perspective, there should have been a successor to the N810 in 2008. everything else simply wouldn't make sense... more than 1 1/2 years without a new device! (it was even worse, acually, as the N810 was hardly more than a re-packaged N800... so when you buy an N810 now in 2009, it's mostly hardware designed in 2006 for the release date Jan. 2007).

as we know this assumed "2008-tablet" was never released, so i think something big was going on behind the scenes. (also, the planned successor to diablo, elephanta, was dumped at that time.) this may have been an "N900" with elephanta... it might also have been somebody temporarily pulling the plug... or the whole ship changing direction at full speed to focus on a different target group with Maemo.

whatever it was, i'm pretty sure it wasn't planned that way in 2007.

that's what i mean when i say they stopped development after the N810. at least for a while.