Thread: AT&T just bought T Mobile USA for 36 billion ! what do you think it means to us that use tmo??
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2011-03-30 , 17:36
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Originally Posted by stlpaul View Post
We use hand-held windows mobile devices with modular radios (cellular/wifi/bluetooth) at work. They are as the definition of a brick. N900 is tiny compared to them.
Well, they ARE Windows Mobile devices. On the other hand, if Nokia had gone the way they SHOULD have gone and instead made INTERNET TABLETS (which Maemo was designed for!), it really wouldn't have been a problem. Case in point:

http://armdevices.net/2011/03/18/arc...unced-in-june/
http://liliputing.com/2011/03/archos...p-tablets.html

In this case, they're making handsets and tablets with 5" to 10" screen sizes. The smaller ones being easily pocket-sized. Had NOKIA done this, by now you COULD have had a REAL tablet with a Maemo OS and used your Bluetooth headset as your phone instead of trying to make the argument that Windows Mobile devices are too thick as evidence that modular radios in a possible NOKIA Internet Tablet are a bad idea. :P

Originally Posted by retsaw View Post
Nokia's decision on which frequencies to use may suck from a US perspective, but from a business perspective they make sense.
Yes, clearly it was an excellent business decision to dismiss the US perspective. We can clearly see how that worked out. Clearly.
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