Video of me grilling Bill Plummer, VP of Multimedia, on the third internet tablet. In that, he gives the whole community props for teaching Nokia about community interaction. http://tabletblog.com/2007/09/nserie...-nokia-on.html
I found this update on IntoMobile where it states that in the US "Nokia is announcing a massive retail effort, partnering with shops that sell phones instead of going after the operators.". This is the list of partner stores:
Wireless Toyz
BestBuy Mobile
MacMall (the iRony)
PCMall
Wireless Station
Banana Wireless
Priemer Mobile
S&L Wireless
Phone 2 Go
UCLA (sell direct to students?)
etc
I wonder if any of the above stores will stock Nokia Internet Tablets?
I agree, YoDude. Another thing I'm hoping for (that wouldn't be on the FCC site) is either a slider keyboard or a better camera. Not because I would want them for myself - but because it'd convince many more to adopt this platform.
Isn't the iPhone a good argument that a hardware keyboard isn't necessary for a mainstream device? I would have thought that the N800's soft keyboard spoke for itself, but apparently not.
I don't want to waste size and weight on my device with a keyboard. If the next device has a physical keyboard, I won't buy it. Not at any price.
I think just unlocking the unused capabilities of the N800 would elevate it from good to incomparably awesome. I mean the limited video bandwidth and the 3d acceleration.
The 3d acceleration would be a much bigger boon than it sounds like, especially when the hardware tessellation backend for cairo is released.
Isn't the iPhone a good argument that a hardware keyboard isn't necessary for a mainstream device? I would have thought that the N800's soft keyboard spoke for itself, but apparently not.
I don't think we need to have just one style of device. As long as they're all the same platform there's potential for many different sizes and form factors to suit different people's tastes and needs. This would be the best way to expand support for the platform.
Don't forget, the iPhone isn't exactly mainstream, at least not yet. 1 million sales in a few months is absolutely nothing by phone standards, Nokia alone sells 1 million every single day and they're only a third of the market. I think the iPhone will sell well compared to iPods, but in its current form it will never be more than a niche of the overall phone market, because there is no way for a single device to appeal to the majority of the market. Personal tastes are too diverse, there can't be a perfect phone in the same way there can't be a perfect film or a perfect book.
There's nothing to stop Nokia bringing out two or three tablet models a year in parallel, just as they bring out a dozen similarly-specced smartphone models every year. The recently announced E51 smartphone is a candybar shape and absolutely tiny, just 61cc, whereas the also recently announced N95 8GB is a slider and much bigger, but they both run exactly the same S60 3.1 software platform at about the same speed.
On top of all that, aren't we expecting some non-Nokia Maemo devices to appear at some point?
