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tablets are for new-prehistoric post-modern unproductive consumerist and passive people and know one thing: they will disappear soon, they are an accident in history, things are a changing...
i can see in a few years the shape and size of notepads and booklet like the courier prototype from microsoft take place of them. they are foldable, they could possibly be pocketable but large enough to watch and read, good to write on, and can be used as an old laptop or just flatted down to take notes on them without the frustrating presence of the screen as a wall between the user and the rest of the world.
smartphones let the geeks out but are not really good to work, the best compromise as of now is still the n900 for me, though nokia MUST do more for it.
the tablet is just the primitive phase of the new standard, which surely wont be a tablet.
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2010-01-27
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A foldable tablet with two screens. Think of two Ipads that open like a book - or a laptop with big virtual keyboard. I'd totally buy that - even if it came from apple.
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2010-01-27
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I imagine that it will be a n900-type device that has a dock that allows it to be used as a media hub and a desktop-type computer. Perhaps via pico-projector built into the dock?
etc, etc
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2010-01-27
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2010-01-27
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i'm not sure if i should use the word "tablet" as it means so many different things to different people... i just know that i want a device very much like the N900, only with a slighty larger screen. the form factor of the N810 would be cool. screen size between 4" and 5", not bigger.
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2010-01-27
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id like that too; but im imagining something different here. imagine an ipad foldable in two: with a big screen foldable on itself on one side (with one part usable also as no-more-so-virtual keyboard) and on the other side a little screen and a camera. all flat would be a tablet/book/notepad, half folded a laptop, completely folded a phone/camera/gps.
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2010-01-27
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i'm not sure if i should use the word "tablet" as it means so many different things to different people... i just know that i want a device very much like the N900, only with a slighty larger screen. the form factor of the N810 would be cool. screen size between 4" and 5", not bigger.
that's one thing.
the 10" device - i don't know. it will have "i could as well use my notebook and enjoy a real keyboard" written all over it.
OTOH, i remember a thread about computing for the elderly... I said back then that I can see a market for 17" touch devices running a Maemo-like UI, only blown up in size. I still think this market exists, it's just probably not profitable yet. (Although I would love being able to let my father try one of those super-size-tablets)
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