I 100% agree. In fact, 110% (how's that for hyperbole? ).

Nokia seems to have gone back to the drawing board more times than necessary. Back in 2005 when the 770 was debuting, they had a robust system built around the arm platform. If they had continued to build on that platform, add new features, upgrade and fix non-working parts, etc, they would be miles ahead of the competition, and certainly far ahead of their current position. But Nokia seems to have chosen the tear-down/rebuild strategy, which basically seems to have them wasting time re-implementing working things. It wreaks of a perfectionistic (yes, I made that word up) approach to design, when iterative changes would have yielded far larger gains.

There's still room for Nokia to come into the game. Of course, they will be competing with Ubuntu which really seems to be getting their act together for lower power and smaller touch-screen devices. They will also be far behind the competition which has completely eaten their lunch.

I, like you, would have *loved* a fully OSS tablet. Other than simply a POSIX complaint OS, I'm not really sure what Nokia plans to bring to market.