We need to wake up and smell the toast. It is over. Time to move on.

Nokia permitted the Tablet to die, it could have sustained interest by releasing upgraded N800’s or channelling resources to the O/s, or whatever but it didn’t and deliberately so. All of the anticipation for the N900 Tablet came from this forum. Nokia never announced any such intention to feed our expectation, this was pure wishful thinking on our part.

The Tablets were an interesting, adventurous and useful experiment for Nokia. The project has served whatever function that Nokia has concluded as being sufficient for its purposes. And now it is gone.

Besides, it is not just Nokia and the Tablet, the entire MID concept has taken a battering. Caught between smart phones and net books, the fascinating concept devices announced in 2007 and culminating in the IDF of Autumn 2007 have all disappeared. Only the Aigo is still around (just about).

As devices, the Internet Tablets/MIDs are back in the tiny specialist niche sector. The multi-million market that was initially projected was unfounded.

All of this is no good reason why Nokia couldn’t keep it going of course. Even if it was to remain on the small scale that we are accustomed to at least we would still have it and I am sure the sustained interest would give Nokia sufficient revenue so as to pay its way.

The Tablet could have remained a cool geeky side project which would have reflected well on Nokia’s street credibility too. Some companies have soul and most don’t. Nokia seemed to ‘get it’ and now no longer knows what ‘it’ is.

So yes, to that extent we have been used and discarded.