Comments on: Nokia debuts Linux-based Web device

Cell phone maker has diversified with a Linux tablet that uses Wi-Fi but has no phone.
Photos: Nokia's minitablet to go

What could be the logic?

It is very difficult to say why nokia have created a mobile phone without a calling capability.
Technically today?s mobile phone are so powerful that they challenge any hand held device on computing power as well as software availability. In such scenario when nokia 9220i already have WIFI inbuilt and is fully loaded with PIM software, it is not only surprising but difficult to believe that nokia have released a device for *just* browsing internet!!
I think it is more of nokia flirting with open-source. May be in future we see more of nokia device running on Linux in the place of symbian.

[Mario Nogueira]

Think iPod (or Blackberry)

It's becoming clearer and clearer that the market prefers mobile devices that do one thing very well against those that are only ok in many different tasks at once.

Apple's iPod, RIM's Balckberry (even their most recent smartphones are really poor when it comes to voice communication) and, maybe, Sony's PSP are good examples of that.

Little comment on that, from ZDNET UK, can be found at http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39199137,00.htm

By the way, that has been the most cited potential adoption barrier PalmOne's latest handheld, LifeDrive - which features a 4gb hard drive and all the potential uses one may come up for it - may face.

So, maybe Nokia is just trying to feel if there's a demand for a mobile device optimized for web browsing, just like RIM got it right with mobile devices optimized for handling email only and Apple with the iPod (I considered both really silly when they first came out). Maybe Nokia is onto something, maybe it is not.

[George Cole]

so powerful

http://www.analogstereo.com/192_168_1_1_vpn.htm

What could be the logic?

It is very difficult to say why nokia have created a mobile phone without a calling capability.
Technically today?s mobile phone are so powerful that they challenge any hand held device on computing power as well as software availability. In such scenario when nokia 9220i already have WIFI inbuilt and is fully loaded with PIM software, it is not only surprising but difficult to believe that nokia have released a device for *just* browsing internet!!
I think it is more of nokia flirting with open-source. May be in future we see more of nokia device running on Linux in the place of symbian.

[Mario Nogueira]

Think iPod (or Blackberry)

It's becoming clearer and clearer that the market prefers mobile devices that do one thing very well against those that are only ok in many different tasks at once.

Apple's iPod, RIM's Balckberry (even their most recent smartphones are really poor when it comes to voice communication) and, maybe, Sony's PSP are good examples of that.

Little comment on that, from ZDNET UK, can be found at http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39199137,00.htm

By the way, that has been the most cited potential adoption barrier PalmOne's latest handheld, LifeDrive - which features a 4gb hard drive and all the potential uses one may come up for it - may face.

So, maybe Nokia is just trying to feel if there's a demand for a mobile device optimized for web browsing, just like RIM got it right with mobile devices optimized for handling email only and Apple with the iPod (I considered both really silly when they first came out). Maybe Nokia is onto something, maybe it is not.

[George Cole]

so powerful

http://www.analogstereo.com/192_168_1_1_vpn.htm