it'd be a shame if not.

archos already have sufficient market share

If they don't, it's a stab in the back.

I think they will release a Maemo 5 tablet or what I guess is considered here as a tablet i.e. the N8x0 series.
I am one of the users that was decently happy with the N900 leak specs but like I have said in many threads I would be completely happy with an N810 with updated processor and ram and 3G data connectivity.

If maemo does makes it up to the top of the Nokia product range then I am sure there will be a N910 N920 , N943i to the point where people on this forum will complain about there being too many maemo devices to choose from and the lack of the one true super device that has everything. This happens over at Howardforums (mobile phone forum) every day where people complain about having too many choices in devices from Nokia. The main thing is I don't see this happening until mid 2010 at the earliest once Nokia has seen how the whole maemo thing can work out in the mass market.

We need to wake up and smell the toast. It is over. Time to move on.

Nokia permitted the Tablet to die, it could have sustained interest by releasing upgraded N800’s or channelling resources to the O/s, or whatever but it didn’t and deliberately so. All of the anticipation for the N900 Tablet came from this forum. Nokia never announced any such intention to feed our expectation, this was pure wishful thinking on our part.

The Tablets were an interesting, adventurous and useful experiment for Nokia. The project has served whatever function that Nokia has concluded as being sufficient for its purposes. And now it is gone.

Besides, it is not just Nokia and the Tablet, the entire MID concept has taken a battering. Caught between smart phones and net books, the fascinating concept devices announced in 2007 and culminating in the IDF of Autumn 2007 have all disappeared. Only the Aigo is still around (just about).

As devices, the Internet Tablets/MIDs are back in the tiny specialist niche sector. The multi-million market that was initially projected was unfounded.

All of this is no good reason why Nokia couldn’t keep it going of course. Even if it was to remain on the small scale that we are accustomed to at least we would still have it and I am sure the sustained interest would give Nokia sufficient revenue so as to pay its way.

The Tablet could have remained a cool geeky side project which would have reflected well on Nokia’s street credibility too. Some companies have soul and most don’t. Nokia seemed to ‘get it’ and now no longer knows what ‘it’ is.

So yes, to that extent we have been used and discarded.

So there will be a 4.2" tablet touchscreen with keyboard!

The article says that nokia finally embraces touchscreen!! I wouldn't believe such an ignorant news reporter.

We do know there will be more devices, so that gives me hope, and this post by qgil gives me hope,

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...382#post290382


Joe

I hope you're right, but I interpret it as Quim telling us how happy we'll be with the maemo 3.5" smartphones once we see how great the new tech is.

OK, I'll say 'yes, a Maemo 5 tablet is in the works'. I just read in a 'n900' thread that Rover doesn't have a stand. Yet I seem to recall that one of the device states picked up through the SDK was whether the stand was flipped out or not. Rover, being a phone may not need a stand, but any tablet worth its salt would!

I'm in agreement on that definition. The n900 that they've shown is definately a phone and not a tablet. Of course, the leaked UI photos should have tipped everyone off to that long ago.