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Originally Posted by Azayzel
Ahh... I see now, I had it all wrong thinking the Nokia was an actual UMPC, when in all actuality it's simply an evolved PDA with a slightly larger screen!
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The Nokia tablets aren't PDAs. In fact, they'd make an appalling PDA, even worse than Windows Mobile devices.
One of the things I've noticed with new classes of devices, is that people have trouble classifying them into something they know. For example, the most common criticism of the Nokia is for things that it wasn't designed to do - the Nokia tablets get criticised because they don't have any PDA features, because they aren't phones, because they (initially, anyway) don't have cameras, or because they don't have a physical keyboard so don't behave like a laptop.
I find a similar response to Tablet PCs - people can't see the advantage of having less of the functionality they know about (ie, physical keyboard) even though it is surpassed by the functionality they haven't experienced (a digitiser display, smaller size, lighter weight).
Exactly the same problem exists for e-book readers; people see the price and say they can buy a laptop for the same price. They don't have the experience so don't realise they are totally missing the point.
Even the ipod suffered from the same problem when it was first launched, in the context of people's then current experience with portable CD players, MD players etc. The Touch still suffers from it, to some degree. Until people use the touchscreen (and for many, it will be their first touchscreen device) they don't get the potential of the product at all.
I'd suggest that this is going to be a big factor slowing down the initial uptake of dedicated e-readers. People will compare them to phones, laptops, ipods etc, look at the features they *don't* have, and totally miss the point.