I was about to start a thread that comes from the other direction, called "What would you realistically be willing to sacrifice for the N820?" I may still start a thread like that tomorrow or soon.

My notion is that Nokia should come out with a relatively inexpensive and svelte tablet that meets certain requirements, and is intended as a complement to a cellphone.

I'd be satisfied with, in essence, an N800, with the camera removed and updated components. As for the camera, my feeling is: apart from the minimally used video-VOIP, you can simply have it in your cellphone or have a standalone camera. Updated electronics means a processor and RAM on par with the rumored N900, and a better graphics processor or at least no bottleneck. I'm assuming bluetooth as a necessity, especially if there's no internal gps and no keyboard. My guess is that bluetooth is cheap and small, anyway. I'm also assuming microphone input (for VOIP), a D-Pad, and SD (or microSD) slot or slots.

I'm imagining such a device would use the same size screen as an N8x0, but if it doesn't cost much more, then a transreflective screen like the N810. I'd skip the keyboard in the interests of cost, svelteness, and weight.

Such a device should be (a little) smaller than the N800 or N810 (since no camera or keyboard). And it would be capable of doing pretty much anything a computer can do. It would be a great computer, web browser, portable video viewer, ebook reader, document editor, etc.

I'd consider eliminating the front-facing stereo speakers in order to cut cost and size (even though I personally like and use the speakers, and would miss them), but I'd keep it at least alarm-capable and voice-capable. (I think a slight improvement in the audio electronics for headphone listening, on par with Cowon's offerings, might be a good and not-too-costly enhancement.)

Whether gps is included or not to me would be a matter of its cost and marketing. Since this cheaper device would lack the internal capability to be always connected, then I think it's hard to market it as a GPS Navigator. So I think, unless adding GPS is dirt cheap and takes almost no space, it should be omitted. (I'm satisfied with not-always-wifi-connected Maemo Mapper, which can't do things like change course en route, but I don't think most consumers would be; those of us who are would have to supplement with a bluetooth gps device.)

I'd keep the stylus, personally, but that doesn't seem to fit with the new Maemo 5 -- I can't imagine the Tablet can be used for all computer-like functions without a stylus, but I'm willing for the N900 to prove me wrong.

Contrary to the price/size concerns above, I'd be happy to see a slight increase in the screen size (to about 5") if the unit could still be no larger than the N800; but that's not a requirement, just a thought for an alternative approach.

I'm thinking that my stripped-down, but component-updated, model could have a street-price in the range of $230-280. (I see the price coming down to that range as a result of the elimination of the camera and keyboard and maybe speakers, and the general decrease in electronics costs over time.)

If it had a keyboard and camera would I still buy it? If the price were low enough, or if got low enough over time, yes.