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2007-07-28 , 15:37
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Originally Posted by Naranek View Post
Many people seem to emphasize that N800 is a computer, and I think that it's a huge mistake. If you place it in the computer domain, it is a slow computer with tiny screen, little storage, crappy text input and non-existent expandability. In my opinion it's not a computer, nor is it a PDA. It's an open source portable platform with steroids. With proper care and love you can make it do anything you like
Ah, but you're missing the point, it is a computer, just a computer with which you can browse the internet, watch movies, listen to music, video chat with friends, talk on IRC, navigate with Google Earth, and SSH into your home machine in comfort and style from your pocket. It's a truely portable laptop the frees you from all the nasty pitfalls of a laptop while sacrificing a minimum of functionality.

While I agree that calling it a computer may undermine its position somewhat, it does avoid the pitfalls of 'PDA' or 'PMP'. I don't believe using the poorly understood 'internet tablet' or 'internet device' nomers is necessarily a good choice either, as people seem to assume that it's a fancy term for 'PDA'.

Really, though, the device is a perfect complement to a desktop computer to eliminate that horrobly unusable class of ''mobile'' computing machines know as laptops.