I don't think it's a matter of abstention, I think it's a matter of too many variables lumped into one question. What about people who are ok with the smaller screen size, absolutely will only buy a device WITH GSM, but aren't going to ever buy a 3 row keyboard, and definitely want a dpad? That's me in a nutshell.

That's why my answer was "neither". I don't want either of the devices you described, so I either have to vote for neither, or vote for one that has a pet issue on it, and then unintentionally be counted among proponents of the other features they either don't care about ... or disagree with (but less-so than their pet issue). (If you were to remove GSM from the question, then I'd definitely go with the latter device, but I really don't want to carry two pocketables, so as the question stands, I don't want either of them: I can't vote for the 4-5" screen because it doesn't meet a key need, and I can't vote for the 3.5" device because it only satisfies ONE of my needs)

And that later reasoning is why I think you're seeing bias in the results. My non-scientific hunch is that people aren't so much voting FOR "data only" as they are voting AGAINST 3.5" screen size and/or 3 row keyboard and/or no-dpad.

If you were to break them down into individual questions (screen size, GSM vs data only, 3 row vs 4 or 5 row keyboard, dpad or none, overall device size), each with 5 levels of opinion (strongly want A, weakly want A, don't care, weakly want B, strongly want B), I would expect that the GSM variable would still be pretty even. I could be wrong, but that's what I would expect.

(another possibility is: a lot of the people who want to carry only one device have already moved on to other pastures, tired of waiting to ever see a Maemo phone)