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07 Mar 08

Excellent article about the history and philosophy of Nokias Internet Tablet. - svartling on 2008-03-07

The Nokia N810 comes from the Internet Tablet breed, in other words, it’s a
device tweaked for Web browsing, or, putting it simply, a portable Internet
browser with a handful of multimedia features thrown in for good measure.
The variety of device types aimed at one particular niche normally signifies
that this market is currently emerging.
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- Brought about as a promising branch, Internet Tablet devices became the proving
  grounds for quite a bunch of innovations that will be embedded into mass-market
  devices down the road.
- Nokia is trying to create a portable device for accessing the Web, easy
  communications, and, somewhere down the road, a complement to the mobile phone,
  a very potent secondary device.
- This niche appears to have some potential, but where the market will go is being
  decided these days already – whether Internet Tablets will become widely adopted
  in the next few years, or they won’t make it as mass-market devices and will
  rather hand over their functionality to mobile phones. But regardless of the way
  it goes, Nokia’s Internet Tablets are among this segment’s strongest players
  today.

05 Mar 08

phone screens are too small for decent web browsing, even on the much vaunted
iPhone, so surely a separate portable device that has a bigger screen and Wi-Fi
connectivity is needed for serious portable web access.
- Great review of the MID (Mobile Internet Device) Nokia N810. 5 pages! - on 2008-03-05
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