I already do that on a smaller screen (I switched away from my phone+N810 in October, when I got my G1). It's not ideal on my G1, but it does work. And, really, I thought the N800/N810 was just barely too small for doing this A LOT anyway. That's part of how I arrived at my conclusion that I needed a middle-range device.

I never considered the N800/N810 to be a good size for those tasks. It's just slighlty too small. As above, that's part of how I came to the conclusion that I needed both a pocketable (for quick/dirty work) and a middle-range device (for more intensive work ... reading, office tasks, web pages that are just too big to read comfortably on anything smaller than a 5" screen, etc.).


While I don't like the decision to go to a 3.5" screen for the NIT (I'd rather have the G1, N97, or Mako get larger, not have the NIT get smaller), if there is also going to be a netbook size device, then I can actually see that working out (for me) as a better pair of devices than a dumb phone + 4" NIT:

A Maemo phone, for calls and messaging, music, VERY light video watching, and quick/dirty web use, all comfortably pocketable.

A Maemo netbook/tablet/convertible-tablet for more intense mobile use (movies, e-books, real web use, more intensive messaging conversations, document reading/editing, etc.).

That would actually fit my model of "a pocketable and a non-pocketable".

A lot of this depends on what the RX-71 actually is (a NIT size device that makes all of you happy, or a netbook that makes me happy), and/or how many Maemo devices there will be.