I did that with N810 (RDP, NX) and while it worked the workflow still sucked because of a too low signal-to-noise ratio. I had hard times reading the text, and clicking right; I had to work around that e.g. by double clicking on taskbar items instead so they'd minimize. Yes, it worked, but there was no way to zoom in or out which sometimes is required. Therefore, I much prefer being able to easily zoom in and get precision. If I were forced to choose between pitch to zoom in at the cost of less precision and lack of stylus I'd pick the former. Some kind of compromise between the two would be, eventually, best IMO because a 100% zoom in is a bit over the top.. rather complex, to find the right balance!!

What a smartphone does is exactly that: its just a computer. If it supports protocols like for example IMAP, SMTP, POP3 then it extends your PC experience because you can use your smartphone to use those protocols instead of your PC. Yet we all agree that we cannot run Outlook on our smartphone (even if it were 1:1 ported to ARMEL). We have always (tried to) optimize the applications for the hardware because the hardware in a product is rather static.

Instead what you do is fail to adapt to a UI paradigm optimized for a handheld. Yes, you're entirely free to not adapt, but there will not be many customers who will prefer your way of interaction (handheld, Linux, GTK, all kind of little checkboxes and cluttered interface with tons of bells and whistles, stylus-optimized, 4"1 screen) instead we are moving towards optimized UI paradigms. That means we say byebye to previous, sub optimal ones.

When newbies come to care about x86-32 compatibility they're laughed at. When newbies want Windows compatibility they're laughed at. Yet, this kind of compatibility is somehow a holy grail to some of you.

Yet the harsh reality is that we have 800x480; not something like 1024x780-1600x960. The fact is we don't have a mouse pointer. We don't have as much resources as a laptop or PC (not even a netbook). We have 3G instead of broadband.

Personally, I won't buy a Nokia N920 a few months after I bought a Nokia N900 no matter how good it may be. And the Nokia N900 I plan buying end this month...