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Nokia have got two choices with how to make Maemo commercially viable.
They can either make it a lot bigger (to compete with mini-laptops):
http://www.gadgeteer.org.uk/wp-conte...n810vseee1.jpg
or make it a lot smaller (to compete with phones and music players):
http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php...1&d=1240756582
http://mightygadget.co.uk/wp-content...ands-on-20.jpg
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2009-05-09
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2009-05-09
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2009-05-09
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The only reason the MID-sized market isn't exploding is because the tech hasn't yet gotten to the point where it's powerful enough to replace those small laptops for most people's uses
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2009-05-09
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Then why did even the cheapest EEE PC and its rivals do so well despite having specs similar to the N810? The reason I think they succeeded while the tablets failed is the stuff beyond the specs, i.e. the actual device size.
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2009-05-09
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Then why did even the cheapest EEE PC and its rivals do so well despite having specs similar to the N810? The reason I think they succeeded while the tablets failed is the stuff beyond the specs, i.e. the actual device size.
You can't really use a tablet-size device as an effective substitute for a computer. It doesn't matter how good the processor is, the small tablet keyboard cripples the device as a computer.
Typing is absolutely key to using e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, word processing, spreadsheets, forum posting, and a lot of other core computing functions. All of these things are quite painful on an N810-size device compared to a mini-laptop or larger. You might write one or two sentences on an N810 keyboard but very few people would use them beyond that for any length of time.
Even hardcore users benefit from a netbook-size (or larger) keyboard because it makes programming, web site maintenance, script editing, command lines etc a lot easier to use.
Mini-laptop keyboards are probably the smallest keyboard you can comfortably type large amounts of text on. Once you go smaller than a mini-laptop, text entry becomes annoying, so the device ceases to be about doing and more about passive things like watching, listening and reading. There's not much action, it's mostly just data flowing one way into the device instead of off it.
That's why Canola's designers concentrated on consuming media, because they knew that a tablet is more about watching things than actually creating stuff. That's probably also why things like the iPhone/iPod Touch and Kindle are doing so well, because they are all about media consumption and have almost nothing to do with productivity.
I just went away for a week's holiday and was able to type long articles (2000+ words each) on the cheapest model EEE PC. I could never do that on the N810, my fingers would give up after the first 500 words.
I could do my job on a mini-laptop, I cannot do it on a tablet. It's nothing to do with processor speed or anything like that, it's just very very difficult to write large amounts of text on a tablet keyboard.
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2009-05-09
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Well, you can actually have a very large screen on a small device thanks to TV Out:
and a very large keyboard too thanks to Bluetooth:
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2009-05-09
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This market is going to explode over the next 3 years.
Really, though, there's no way Nokia isn't planning on diversifying the lineup, so it's a moot point.
Ryan Abel