First I've gotta say, after my most recent attempt at Tear, which was much more successful than the first, having more than one browser window open seems much more doable.

Back to the N900 Rover-as-a-phone thread...

I think Nokia has lost all it's momentum here. The NIT 770 was revolusionary, but so was the HTC G1. HTC is spewing out top featured stuff, the Hero being the most recent addition to a new but supposedly huge selection of Android devices before the end of 2009. And Android is planning for bigger screens, netbooks. Maemo has all the potential in the world, but Android is just moving so much faster.

Whatever advantage Nokia had on this all-in-one market... They can still compete if they try, but the advantage, it's all gone.

This is my quite temporary opinion, and it doesn't negate the need for a N900-as-a-top-of-the-line-phone because the N97 still isn't impressing anyone any much.

Now, the bigger 7"-11" tablet product we all want to see... That market is still pretty much open. Wide open, a big open space between the netbook, the 7" media players and the eBook.

But only until Apples iPad enters it. Chances are Nokia would be the Sensa of that market... p@marketing can't do a thing against Church of Steve. Especially since they're so insistant on dropping the "internet tablet" branding when there is really nothing else working for Maemo atm than the NIT community.

Maemo as a phone OS should be quite interesting but... Only if it changes pace completely because Android is moving awfully fast now.