Mark wrote: > However, $750 and and/or a smaller screen would be showstoppers for > me. That price would be a showstopper for anyone, even if included GPS and an accelerometer. That's well over three times the going rate for a pocket device. > Also, at this point regular cellular voice would be a requirement > for me. I'd rather not. I already have a perfectly working phone, and I don't want to combine phone and PDA: you look such a prat trying to work a spreadsheet while trying to make a call, or wearing one of those zomboid BT earpieces. Mais chacun a son gout. > If they can't get the price to netbook levels or less, it's highly > unlikely that a single soul will buy them. I think that's been the > major issue with the tablets in the past: considering the features, > the price is way above everybody's threshold until about the time the > new model comes out, making the old one (depending on one's > viewpoint) obsolete. Yep. €150-€200 is the max the market will pay for this here. Maybe in the USA where there is more disposable income it could go higher. > ...but I strongly suspect that those "leaked" specs are all somebody's fantasy. I think the GPS and accelerometer probably are. > And I think it's highly unlikely that it will be released in the next > few weeks (they're saying July 2009), or even this summer. Next spring > would be much easier to believe. It's already the end of June. Anyway, I'm not yet in the market for an upgrade at that price: the N800 cost me an ARM and a leg and it's working just fine. And certainly not with some daft cellphone deal like the iPhone that ties you to a single supplier at a massive markup. ///Peter _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
