The part that gets me is that someone at sometime had a stroke of genius at Nokia. Some designer or team of designers came up with the 770 then bested it with the amazing N800. These devices were ground-breaking and an evolutionary step ahead in technology. Now instead of showing the world why a tablet size screen is the best, and very portable at the same time, they have given way to some guy in a suit who wants to sale more handsets.

I can empathize with what the original brilliant team (hardware engineers) that created the Nokia tablets must now feel. Sometimes brilliant is moot unless you have the marketing to go with it -- after all unseen and untold is unsold. I guess when the marketing division fails, like in the case of NIT’s, it’s easy to save face by just saying it’s merely an R&D project so nor real harm and “that was to be expected.”

I have used the Iphone extensively along with the N800 and N810. Without a doubt the screen size of the Iphone is prohibitive for extensive web browsing -- so much so that my wife grabs my N810 to do her real internet browsing.

Perhaps at this point you need concessions to stay in the game since the part were Nokia "marketed to the masses" never came to fruition (someone dropped the ball).

In the end, the tablets (4.2” screen size or so) should have been blazing a trail for others to follow if they had been marketed properly. I will probably try a smaller screen size and see how it works, but in the end I feel sorry for those that came up with the brilliant idea that created the NITs, which is now apparently diminished by a need to catch up in market share.

Sometimes the best idea doesn’t win and business politics and marketeers carry the day.