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I'm a huge Nokia fan (N95 8gb here) but they keep building these "mobile computers" that few people buy -- their Nokia Communicator / N800 Tablet are two exampl

by kirse 18y ago

I'm a huge Nokia fan (N95 8gb here) but they keep building these "mobile computers" that few people buy -- their Nokia Communicator / N800 Tablet are two examples. They should stick to making great cellphones with awesome media capabilities for now. It's the whole reason why I don't buy an iPhone, I get a quality 5MP camera that does great VGA video at 30fps and has really loud stereo speakers for playback. The whole mini-Laptop thing (which I'm guessing Nokia is looking at) is just another trend that will die off soon. It was a trend about a decade back with the Toshiba Libretto and will die out as another fad once people (again) realize how the mini-laptop is a failed compromise between a full laptop and desktop. Now a "slate" computer (like an 8.5x11" iPhone) would be sweet, so long as it had a quality touch-OS.

ryanwaggoner 18y ago
The whole mini-Laptop thing (which I'm guessing Nokia is looking at) is just another trend that will die off soon. It was a trend about a decade back with the Toshiba Libretto and will die out as another fad once people (again) realize how the mini-laptop is a failed compromise between a full laptop and desktop. Wrong. The Libretto was never a huge success, but netbooks are. What's happening now is not just another trend that will die off soon. "By the end of 2008, Asustek had sold 5 million netbooks, and other brands together had sold 10 million. (Europe in particular has gone mad for netbooks; sales there are eight times higher than in the US.) In a single year, netbooks had become 7 percent of the world's entire laptop market. Next year it will be 12 percent." From: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-03/mf_netbooks?currentPage=2 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-03/mf_netb... That's billions of dollars and several years of millions of people buying these things, using them, and continuing to buy them. There's a lot of trends making this happen, including widespread wifi, cost, and so much of our computing living in the cloud now, all of which are forecast to accelerate. You may not like them personally, but these netbooks are here to stay.
- kirse 18y ago
  Well I stand corrected on the figures then, but I certainly won't be using one. My fingers can't take the agony of typing on a keyboard designed for mice.
herval 18y ago
The the netbook market booming and iPhone is basically the most popular mobile phone in the world right now (not only for high end users, like Nokia smartphones tend to be)... I'm sorry to maybe point this out, but maybe your personal 'requirements' (5mp camera phones, super-sized iphone-tablet-stuff?) are not very much in line with the rest of the world... Agreed on the Communicator/N800 fad, though.

by kirse 18y ago

ryanwaggoner 18y ago

The whole mini-Laptop thing (which I'm guessing Nokia is looking at) is just another trend that will die off soon. It was a trend about a decade back with the Toshiba Libretto and will die out as another fad once people (again) realize how the mini-laptop is a failed compromise between a full laptop and desktop. Wrong. The Libretto was never a huge success, but netbooks are. What's happening now is not just another trend that will die off soon. "By the end of 2008, Asustek had sold 5 million netbooks, and other brands together had sold 10 million. (Europe in particular has gone mad for netbooks; sales there are eight times higher than in the US.) In a single year, netbooks had become 7 percent of the world's entire laptop market. Next year it will be 12 percent." From: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-03/mf_netbooks?currentPage=2 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-03/mf_netb... That's billions of dollars and several years of millions of people buying these things, using them, and continuing to buy them. There's a lot of trends making this happen, including widespread wifi, cost, and so much of our computing living in the cloud now, all of which are forecast to accelerate. You may not like them personally, but these netbooks are here to stay.

kirse 18y ago
Well I stand corrected on the figures then, but I certainly won't be using one. My fingers can't take the agony of typing on a keyboard designed for mice.

herval 18y ago

The the netbook market booming and iPhone is basically the most popular mobile phone in the world right now (not only for high end users, like Nokia smartphones tend to be)... I'm sorry to maybe point this out, but maybe your personal 'requirements' (5mp camera phones, super-sized iphone-tablet-stuff?) are not very much in line with the rest of the world... Agreed on the Communicator/N800 fad, though.