It'll be like a flea on an elephant!!! At the time of writing this there were nearly 500 posts. Hardly enough to bring Nokia to their knees begging for forgiveness. They will barely notice us. Peter, Quim will, and doubtless feel sympathy, but I seriously doubt that they have enough influence to make a difference.

Nokia are in the business of selling to the mass market. half a millon tablets, or whatever the figure is, is not even on their radar. They will be wanting to shift 10, 50, 100 millon units.

That is the reason why they have (allegedly, no confirmed product yet remember) gone down the smartphone route with Maemo for the next device. Look at the windows phones, android phones, and the iphone - 3.5" are what normal consumers are buying.

Personally, I would love for an updated N800, with a more readable screen, GPS, and a faster CPU, along with better video hardware. Don't expect to see it, as I don't think that Nokia thinks that form factor is mass-marketable as a phone, which is what average consumers want.

I think that a tablet form-factor that is not a phone is a very viable device, especially one with good audio/video capabilities - look at Archos, unfortunately for us Nokia is a phone manufacturer, and that it is what people expect. If the current tablets had a Dell badge, people would ask us what version of Windows it ran, if an Apple badge, what ipod it was etc.

I also think that a bit more work on the current software enviroment is required to bring a 3 year old platform up to date, again easy work for the right people, but Nokia ain't gonna so it as the current tablets do not have enough of a user base for nokia to commit to the work. 3 years ago the tablets looked slick etc, but the competition has moved on

It also seems apparent to me that over the next few years the battle will be Symbian vs Maemo, as Nokia seems to be hedging their bets and releasing devices based on both OSs to see which gathers market shareand community support.