@Kangal: Great post, one of the best. I have read it several times over – still am.

That was also the true reason for the release of the N770, N800 and N810.
So far as I am concerned a company should either believe in what it is doing and commit to it or not bother in the first place. In other words keep its experiments internal until it has worked out what it wants to do.

How many customers did Apple inflict its Smartphone experiments on and rook out of sizeable amounts of cash for the privilege of being guinea pigs? Exactly. Even early adopter 2G owners will still be reasonable happy with the latest v3 software.

As an N800 owner I consider myself duly violated. I checked out the N900 when it appeared in the Nokia store and could see the same writing on the wall. How often does Nokia think it can keep getting away with this. But then we shouldn’t underestimate the self immolation needs of the fanboys, Nokia, like many abusers probably believes that ‘they like it really’ and the evidence from much of this forum over the past three years is that Yes, they probably do.

The trouble for Nokia is that there aren’t really enough of them, however disproportionally vocal they might be, to sustain a viable business model on. Hence sales of only 100,000 - or whatever the figure actually is, either way not enough.

Now that is interesting I have never seen it mentioned in that light before. I have a Smart Q7 which runs Ubuntu and all it needs is a little help from somewhere to make it perfectly acceptable. Within the expectation one would have from a $189 7” device, that is, and which fits the niche of cheap 800Mhz handhelds.
And of which there are going to be many, here is info on the Ramos 4.8” for $146, for example
http://www.pocketables.net/2010/05/r...about-150.html

Have you seen this article on Tegra and Android tablets?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/...prime-time.ars
His comment on Anroid is “So many of the Android UI elements just don't look so great when they're stretched all the way across a wide tablet screen. This is because most of the UI elements that work on smartphone screens don't make the jump to the tablet very elegantly.”

His conclusion “In the long run, Chrome OS is a much more likely candidate for an official Google-branded tablet than is Android. Web-based interfaces are made with larger screen sizes in mind. More importantly, though, Chrome OS isn't a smartphone OS—it's designed for thin-client desktops, and it doesn't have to make tradeoffs to fit into smartphone hardware.”

I had almost forgotten about JooJoo, if the iPad at 10” is too much for single hand hold then why be restricted when a 12” wide screen is available.

Engadget is raving over MeeGo v1.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/m...stupendous-vi/
Either they are touting for advertising revenue or I am getting jaded.