Here here! WTH Nokia? When I bought into the INTERNET TABLET form factor, with my N800, I specifically was NOT buying a smart phone and I was not buying from a smart phone line of products (770, N800, N810, N810WE). They were labeled all over the boxes as a TABLET. Going the phone route with the N900 was a good way to piss all over a market they virtually dominated at the time with almost no competition until they decided to ME TOO it against iPhone and Android, while those guys started in on their own myriad of wifi-only and cellular-enabled TABLETS with larger screens, faster processors, more memory... meanwhile, the N900 performs poorly as a phone and Maemo grows older, less enticing and less useful in light of its competitors.

I'm with you... they should never have left the TABLET form factor and if they ever hope to remain relevant as technology keeps moving on, they need to get back into it. I do fear it's far too late for them, though. Idiots.

And this is yet another reason why I think it's possibly too late for Nokia. Microsoft is NOT a compelling operating system for phones and tablets. Microsoft has been trying for YEARS--more than a decade--to come out with a good tablet. Nothing. Nothing. If Nokia expects a Windows or Windows Mobile to run on a tablet, it will compete again the far more mature and better made iOS and Android devices--and though they're the strongest competition, there's still also RIM's OS (Playbook) and HP's WebOS out there to keep in mind... and even those two are ALREADY is far more customers' hands than Microsoft's Mobile OS much less any kind of a Microsoft tablet.

I'm glad you repeatedly used the word "should" to indicate a variable opinion.