Thread: Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
Yeah, but I don't think it was originally intended to be at all except as a transition to adding phone capabilities to tablets. It was supposed to be step 4 of 5, continuing of the evolution of pocket computing/Maemo that started with the 770. MeeGo switched that train to a little different track.
Nokia didn't want to call it a tablet, and they didn't want to call it a phone. I don't think you were around yet for the renaming contest.

It would be interesting to know the exact date when some Nokia exec signed off on the n900 hardware specs. I would guess that it was no later than late Q1/early Q2 2008. If so, they were in between a rock and a hard place. Everything was moving to capacitive and I think Nokia really wanted to dump the stylus. It was a good surprise. At one point, a bunch of us were freakin' out that the case wasn't even gonna have a stylus holder.

I sure hope they do, maybe offer something like a N920C and N920R. Capacitive screens suck, but the iPhone and Android phones have brainwashed the public about them.
If so, which I doubt, they're gonna have to do something about the screen material. I'm one of those in-the-buff people. The n810 screen seems bullet proof, but I can scratch the n900 with my finger nail.
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