I for one refuse to admit that I am missing the point, since it is MY point of view, not Nokia's. I want a tablet for my sake, I never said that it is bad for Nokia to choose to not make one. A phone makes perfect sense -- just seeing how this forum exploded with new users in the last couple of months is telling enough what the general population out there is after...

But, once the N900 has become more mainstream, having a "bigger brother" with similar inwards and focused more on media and less on connectivity may capture additional customers -- those that are happy with their blackberries or E72 or ericssons...

PS. Going back to the OP, the "ipod touch eclipses the iphone"... Of course it would, offering almost everything the iphone has, at five times lower price... even the apple herd could figure it out after a couple of years...