Hey folks,

since I use my internet tablet at university more and more people ask what it is. I should add that I am studying information technology. So my friends have some kind of tech knowledge.

Everytime I take out my N810, their first guess is that it is a mobile.
When I ask them why they think like that they say that it is from Nokia, so it should be a mobile.

Second thing is that people who have some kind of knowledge in this direction really believe that the OS is some sort of Windows Mobile.

So again and again I have to tell them what it really is about. I thought about putting a label on my N810 telling them that "I am not a mobile."

What experiences did you make with people who don't know the Tablets?

Well I have been asked a million times is that an iPhone. Infact 2 times tonight I was asked that.

Tell them it's a UMPC. This is a well-known term meanwhile, and people don't associate UMPC with phones.
An internet tablet that's not a phone is not cool, but a UMPC that fits in your pocket and has GPS is.

Hehe, that sounds like a good point! I will try that.

I agree, great answer.

People often refer to my IT as my <shudder> Palm Pilot. Even back when I used Palm PDAs I hated it when they called it a Palm Pilot. It sounded like when my dad would call my component sound system a "Hi Fi".

I guess I'm picky picky picky.

Frank

Pocket computer.

We need a new name for these things. When I say internet 'Tablet' here in the Netherlands I get funny looks because the word is more associated with medicine than devices. Plus we need Paris Hilton to use one of these.

Ugh. Then I'll worry about STDs every time I use my N800.

Hell!... I thought it was a Tricorder.

Omega