My only reservation abut the excellent post #49 is that it only looks at the situation as it is right now.

Apple created the ipod. Then the iphone. Then they realised they could do the easy bit and make an 'iphone without the phone' - and look! they had a tablet.

Nokia brought maemo from the opopsite direction. As a maker of phones, they set about making something that was solely a tablet. And it worked. and there was a market for it. Next the wanted to see if they could put a phone onto it too. And the answer has been a qualified yes. There's a lot of phone functions missing.

So right now the emphasis is on making the platform support a phone. Because everyone knows Maemo can run a tablet,. And right now the new device is one with telephony, so they can get that bit working.

There is absolutely nothing stopping those who want a tablet using one. And personally, I think it's [extremely likely that step 5 will include both sorts of devices. Indeed, possibly lots of devices with a range of hardware specs for different target audiences much as symbian does.

Let Nokia develop its platform first.