No wonder he is talking like that!

I already do that on a smaller screen (I switched away from my phone+N810 in October, when I got my G1). It's not ideal on my G1, but it does work. And, really, I thought the N800/N810 was just barely too small for doing this A LOT anyway. That's part of how I arrived at my conclusion that I needed a middle-range device.

I never considered the N800/N810 to be a good size for those tasks. It's just slighlty too small. As above, that's part of how I came to the conclusion that I needed both a pocketable (for quick/dirty work) and a middle-range device (for more intensive work ... reading, office tasks, web pages that are just too big to read comfortably on anything smaller than a 5" screen, etc.).


While I don't like the decision to go to a 3.5" screen for the NIT (I'd rather have the G1, N97, or Mako get larger, not have the NIT get smaller), if there is also going to be a netbook size device, then I can actually see that working out (for me) as a better pair of devices than a dumb phone + 4" NIT:

A Maemo phone, for calls and messaging, music, VERY light video watching, and quick/dirty web use, all comfortably pocketable.

A Maemo netbook/tablet/convertible-tablet for more intense mobile use (movies, e-books, real web use, more intensive messaging conversations, document reading/editing, etc.).

That would actually fit my model of "a pocketable and a non-pocketable".

A lot of this depends on what the RX-71 actually is (a NIT size device that makes all of you happy, or a netbook that makes me happy), and/or how many Maemo devices there will be.

Good to hear that there are no delusions of grandeur, except we know that it was all leaked for benefit of talk.maemo.org.

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=60

I've used a N800 for roughly two months, back in February of 2007.

I think I'm entitled to an opinion. But it's great to see that the community on here seems to think I'm not. Really, just underlines what I thought before.

Here's my latest fully useable xterm/keyboard concoction. Forgetting how ugly it is, notice how much "screen estate" I have left for things like word completion and maybe tab selection. Contrast it to the xterm I no longer use. I was thinking inside a box that doesn't pop up.

Sounds like a companion product opportunity ... you should build a prototype and see if you can get gadget makers to pick up for sale :-)

1) Smaller screen - yuk
2) Tied to cellular provider and likely extra money for data - nope
3) lesser battery life due to cellular activity - no thanks
4) No dpad - bad
5) No stylus listed as "included in box" - bummer

= Nokia not getting any money from me for this device. A different device perhaps, not this one.

It was around 400,000 units shipped in August 2007 (770 and N800 only, and this was just as the N800's price drop was hitting), I'd say we're well over 1 million units by now (perhaps 2).

I apologize for that. It was all my frustration. Dont blame the community for that.

So, would you really rather have an N900 (as its rumored to be) than the G1? Why?