I would buy one. But even a modest success of such a tablet released by Nokia would be a humiliating sign of the huge profit opportunity Nokia handed to Apple by giving the tablet market to Steve just as he was ready to take maximum advantage of Nokia's lapse.

Nokia was King Midas in reverse -- just as it dropped tablets, they turned into gold.

(I wonder where that opinionated guy went who kept insisting that book readers were just a niche product while we were arguing that the N900 should have more tablet-like and ereader features? By rejecting tablets, Nokia went from a niche to the ditch.)