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2009-08-12 , 21:43
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Everyone has a price that they think something is worth; and they shouldn't pay any more for something than that.

If the HSPA capability is useless to you, ignore it. Evaluate the device on everything which does matter to you and see if it's worth the asking price. If not, shrug your shoulders and move on. If you're "right" (in the sense of the market), Nokia'll learn and adapt to meet the market requirements.

If the price point - when it's known - is too high for the features you want, buy another device such as a SmartQ 5 or a new, discount, N810.

From what I can see, RX-51 is going to outsell any individual previous tablet model - and, if we're really lucky as a community - it'll outsell all the previous tablet models combined.

This'll have two advantages:
  1. Volume means reduced costs (although by sharing components with phones, Nokia are already leveraging one aspect of their business to the benefit of another).
  2. More users means more developers means more apps means more users means more developers... which means I can do more with my Maemo device than I can now.
I have several problems with that attitude. Not the least of which is that I bought into an N800 because it's exactly what I need and want. What I'd like to buy into is the next generation of what I need and want--a faster and more capable version of that device. Not some OTHER device I didn't want. It's a tad hard to 'ignore what you don't need' when it's boosted up the price enough to almost buy two of the previous generation.

Then there's the previous generation. I didn't see fit to go from the N800 to the N810--but if I don't like this painfully expensive appendix I'd rather not have to pay for, you want me to just buy an N810? You're talking about the one that Nokia no longer maintains, right? The one that shares all the same problems with my N800 of a lack of parts, support and everything that goes along with being the last generation to boot?

If this new device fails to do well--will Nokia just drop the whole line and just concentrate on their phones (which I will never buy given my experience with their support in general) or will they indeed go ahead and actually change their products to suit what the customers actually want?

Is it so hard for Nokia to actually make the offending radio a seperate module you could insert into the back like the SD cards do now--you could go out and buy your supposedly $15-$25 radio, if you so chose.. and the rest of us could happily have the same device we invested into all along the way to this point.

Near a I can tell, this thing isn't a tablet.. it's a smartphone. Call it what it is. Stop pretending it's in the same field as a general purpose device like a MID or the previous tablets. By that token, I'm still disappointed that Nokia hasn't released a new tablet that I can upgrade from my N800 to. (Sorry.. but N800 to N810 isn't an upgrade.)
 

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