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Originally Posted by MenoRikey View Post
All I'm saying is I would think it's biggest strength is the Internet experience and, to me, it seems Nokia just stuck a web browser on a portable device and called it an "Internet" tablet, without making it efficient. The fact that it has a hard time rendering some of the bigger sites reinforces my point. Then trying to say it's better than smartphones and PDA's at displaying websites further cheapens it because those products primary purpose isn't the Internet experience, like the Nokia.
Looks to me that you're ignoring the points made by others in an effort to keep protesting.

I get frustrated by some of the heavy sites too, but then I consider some qualifiers:

-those sites are typically where the inefficiencies lie. Thanks to huge, cheap harddrive space and the powerful CPUs of desktops and even laptops, web designers have gotten both lazy and extravagant. With reasonable and economical design practices in place, those same sites would load MUCH faster on the tablets-- which do not have the horsepower of the faster devices nor do they claim to.

-the one qualifier you continue to omit in your protests is the most obvious: portable. So instead of "internet tablet" think "portable internet tablet" and maybe you'll see where the rest of us are coming from.

I think you're trying way too hard to argue against the product's usefulness (as many have pointed out, internet is a broader term than you seem willing to acknowledge). But maybe you just need to use the device more to get it. Or, as has been suggested, return it and buy something else. No sense in wasting time griping about it.
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