I wish it were possible to put more than one thanks on a post (or on a specific paragraph, even).

"Too small to be really useful as a productivity device, too big to be taken whereever you go."

Exactly. Though, I wouldn't say "too big", just that without being a phone, they become redundant when you're wanting to travel REALLY light, at the point where you want to carry JUST one device, even just one pocketable, the current/previous NITs become "too much to be taken where ever you go".

For me, a single NIT/Phone device (like the one leaked/speculated in this thread), that was still as big as an N810, would be fine. It only becomes "too big" when you combine it with a second pocketable device (having to carry both a phone and a NIT).

And, while I'm HIGHLY disappointed that that the NIT would get smaller, I have to plainly admit that what I miss in carrying my G1 is not the NIT's size ... it's the more extensive access to the Linux layer, and everything that Linux can do. The leaked/speculated device may turn out to be great (though, there are a couple of Android apps I've grown highly attached to...).

But, otherwise, I find the sentiment of the quoted paragraph to be pretty spot on.