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Originally Posted by scaler View Post
The usbLAN app by jolouis should have given Maemo a chance to grow out of the toyshop and find a market replacing some of the laptops and notebooks that travellers haul in their hand baggage.
You really think the vast majority of business users are going to be able to move to Linux, let alone a 3.5" screen for their travel use. . . .

Originally Posted by scaler View Post
Connection to hotel-room data ports is a requirement for that market.
Travel router.

Originally Posted by scaler View Post
So is a full-size keyboard (which can go in checked baggage)
Bluetooth.

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and many business users avoid bluetooth for security reasons.
None that I know.

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USB sticks are absolutely standard tools these days.
Perhaps in certain markets, but definitely not in the mobile computer niche Nokia has created. Your definition of business users seems to be a bit distanced from the reality.
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