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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
I'm not sure about the netbook and the 7"-device... the Maemo 5 user interface elements would be frighteningly large on these.

Hardware-wise, tough, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Archos does exactly that. They have a lineup from 1.8" to 7" (including the 4.3" and 5" sweet spots), and nobody's talking about "niche markets" and "consumers don't want that" when they see their products.

Maybe with the Moblin UI instead of the upcoming Maemo UI, this sort of devices would be a dream. (I'm stressing "UI" here, beneath the UI Maemo is great. Moblin too, probably, I don't know how far they are apart, anyway... there are many familiar boxes in the Moblin Core overview)
This has felt like the twilight zone for the past few days. I've already said something positive about the iPhone, and now I'm going to say something positive about Archos: They have a nice range of sizes and they don't have hardware keyboards (I think).

From Peter's and Ragnar's comments, I optimistically predict that there will be,eventually, a Maemo 5 tablet (no hardware keyboard, 4", 5", 6"... screen). Why would they jump to a netbook and then let other companies fill the gap that they're already in? That would be stupid.
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