Internet tablets

An Internet tablet (IT) (see also Mobile Internet Device (MID)) is a small portable computer with a touch-sensitive screen interface and wireless Internet access. Nokia has produced a series of ITs with the Maemo operating system, starting with the Nokia 770 in 2005. It was followed by the Nokia N800 in early 2007. The updated Nokia N810 in 2008 was the first to include a GPS receiver and slide-out keyboard. The Nokia N900 was released at the end of 2009 and, with the addition of a multi-band GSM cell radio, was also technically a smart phone. Nokia's

Nokia's 5 Steps
At the Web 2.0 Summit in October, 2007, Nokia Executive Vice President of Markets, Anssi Vanjoki, described the end game for the IT line. He described the N770 as the first step, the N800 from earlier in the year as the second step, and the N810 as the third step in a five step evolution toward a mobile Web 2.0 computer.


 * "The N810 is the first of these devices targeted at a 'normal' consumer group, beyond the geeks," Vanjoki added. "It's a fairly small entity of technology leaders, but it's a very important step No. 3 for us."

The N900 has subsequently been described as the fourth step. It can be assumed that the next IT and Maemo 6.0, based on Nokia's newly-acquired QT application framework, will be the final evolution to the mainstream connected computer Nokia has planned for world domination.