I think smarelopches have already filled their niche with the original pebble - a remote for your phone. All the added 'features' since have been as extraneous guff for showoffs. They've overreached and will retract back to. The TV market makes this mistake often; previously with 3d. Now curved screens. In the end they're just TVs again.

The tablet choice made sense to demo sailfish could support a range of arch and resolutions.