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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
They haven't broken 1 million yet, nevermind 10.
The point's been made, but it's worth re-iterating: 1m devices was mentioned at the "Beat goes on" event; I'll wager a gazillion dollarpounds that that's oooh - 1, 2, 3? - orders of magnitude more than any Nokia Internet Tablets.

The iPod Touch and the N800 *do* compete for the same market segment (whether they compete for the same users is a different question). As do the iPhone and the N800; but at least with the iPod Touch we can ignore all those silly "but the N800's not a phone" arguments.
  • Both are marketed as "multimedia" devices (remember the "N"? That's (the marketing reason) why we don't get PIM.
  • Both have wifi.
  • Both have web browsers.
  • The iPod Touch is already better known.
  • The iPod Touch has a better, more integrated, well-thought out UI.

These are the majority of the feature items for this kind of consumer device. The lack of BT DUN/PAN on the iPod could register in some potential customers' minds.

Nokia are crap at marketing. Nokia are too busy trying to be all things to all people. Nokia have been too busy copying desktop metaphors.

Some of the decisions Nokia have taken are necessity due to having to re-UI massive amounts of open source code to fit their "brand"; others are of their own making; some are seemingly impossible for anyone but Apple to achieve.

Suffice to say, if it had a couple more built-in apps, and - most importantly - Bluetooth for headphones & keyboard; I'd seriously consider switching to a Touch.

...and that hurts, because the N800 has the *potential* to be so much more, I such can't see how we're going to get from here to there.
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