quim,

could you please ensure we have holographic projector and stashed away light sabre (might change the form factor) in the devices please?

If we can't have tricorders I'll settle for an r2d2 clone anyday.

You don't need to stash away the light sabre. The tablet becomes the hilt, and the sabre comes out of a port between the USB and A/V out port.

Maemo is a cool name also. Maybe with some "extra"

Maemojo

Maemotion

Maewestmo

Maemortadel

Fannie Maemo

Now you definitely got me.



http://myfblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/el-zapatofono/ (warning: some Spanish cultural background needed)

Nokia n1?)
Nokia's devices always used to have some strange serial numbers So people in stores always ask for "Nokia ####" or "n##"
So n1 will somehow arrange the device in product grid. Hi-def camera,awesome possibilities to share photos and watch vids/listen music. So it's "n-series" for sure. Much more "n" than n810 right now.
And "n1" because it will be the most advanced n-series device on the market (or not?), so it's like "number one". And it's just easy to remember.

It is amazing that these threads go on for so long, even after they have been concluded, but equally how they meander as far from the point of the thread as possible.

It started as a thread about naming the genre of "internet tablet" devices. The fact that this genre exists independently of MIDs is in itself a testament to pointless genre marketing, and moreso when you consider that the Nokia range of internet tablets are the only devices that currently fit into the category.

I suppose then it is no surprise that people insist on using the word "nokia" in the genre name, if a little shortsighted. But I still find it amusing that people feel the need to come up with a name for an internet tablet, that is somehow better than "internet tablet" and arrive at "pocket computer". Perhaps we could just stick with "internet tablet" and then add "Nokia" to the front and we'd have our answer?

Oh hold on.

But this last post smacks the irony bell the hardest, and doesn't even attempt to come up with a name for the genre, but apparently just a new name for the n810.

It is a form of devolution.

Hey, get off of our cloud Dr. Buzkill.

Well, Netpad is the best I've heard in this thread, but I'm partial to handtop, so I'll throw it out there. It beats palmtop because it avoids confusion with Palm and with the HP200-like platforms last known as palmtops. It's also more accurate; a Palm (or other typical PDA) does get held in your palm, but an IT (or Pandora/200LX/etc.) doesn't really. And it does a pretty decent job of conveying the laptopiness, i.e. it's a general-purpose computer. Of course, I am wont to characterize it more brutishly as "a pocketable laptop", with way too many syllables.

In all fairness, NT is not really a CP/M derivative; it's a crock unto itself, but not that one. (And unless I'm quite mistaken, Origami/UMPC was all about NT5.1 (and later).)
That's more or less the whole PDA concept, which (at present) the tablets aren't so hot at. Fortunately, I don't want a friend/alter ego/assistant; I want a workbench for tinkering, and that way the N800 makes me quite happy.

Laptop is an incorrect term because men shouldn't carry it on their lap because its bad for their sperm count. Or so the research says. Notebook is the term of these days.

As such, the term 'nettop' is also meaningless. How do you mean net? Network? As if a laptop doesn't have networking? Or a mobile phone?

The term 'handtop' does describe that you have a device in your hands. The device is small, yet powerful. I think handtop is a nice blend which -while not superaccurately- at least attempts to combine 2 concepts ('handheld' and 'laptop' or 'nettop').

BTW, 2 or 3 letter acronyms are very powerful.

And WNT is in not related to CP/M; (MS)DOS is. WNT has its own microkernel designed by DEC VMS engineers.

Hmm, which sounds better? Which is more descriptive? Handtop or Handpad? Tough call.