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Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
I wouldn't assume anyone with a 7" mid to use it as their primary phone because you want to carry your phone around you at all times, and that's simply too large to be pocketable.
I don't agree that 7" long definitely too large (nor would I call that a '7 inch MID', as most scalar measures of these devices are based on the screen diagonal, not the device length; this is a 5" MID). It's pushing the limit, and length isn't the most important factor there ... width and thickness are. It's only 1cm wider and 1cm thicker than the N810. I could easily put this in my jacket breast pocket, for example. And as long as its the ONLY thing in my pants front pocket, it would pretty much fit (depending on which pants I'm wearing, it might make sitting down quire a little more care, though - that would be the only effect of the length of the device on its pocketability). It only really eliminates my pants back pockets ... which I don't use for carrying gadgets (nor anything else, really).

So a [5]" MID phone needs to have a separate SIM/account.
That conclusion depends upon the "pocketable" question, so no, it doesn't "need to have a separate" account, as a blanket statement.

Personally, I doubt I'd want to carry a this exact device. Scale it down to a 4" screen, though, thin it out because the OMAP platform is better suited to it than the Atom platform, and then put Maemo on it. Yes, that phone I'd want to carry. And so would more of your Maemo customers, who want a 4" device over a smaller one.
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