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2007-11-20
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Just a thought : it's the first tablet with locale-specific hardware. Just making and managing those country-specific keyboards for us pesky Europeans is probably reason enough to go for the US-qwerty mass market first :-)
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2007-11-20
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Yeah, but I'm lead to believe that the US & UK keyboards are the same :-)
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2007-11-20
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Originally Posted by aflegg
Very true, I want to extend my geekage now.
Yeah, but I'm lead to believe that the US & UK keyboards are the same :-)
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2007-11-20
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Originally Posted by aflegg
Quite, but then that wouldn't be fair AT ALL for your fellow Europeans, now, would it ? :-)
Yeah, but I'm lead to believe that the US & UK keyboards are the same :-)
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2007-11-21
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Originally Posted by fpp
I could live with that :-)
Quite, but then that wouldn't be fair AT ALL for your fellow Europeans, now, would it ? :-)
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2007-11-21
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Originally Posted by aflegg
England doesn't use the euro, therefore we are special and should get good stuff sooner. Is anyone else following the logic?
I could live with that :-)
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2007-11-21
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#38
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why don't nokia simply sell the tablets with a some missing keycaps and a kit of caps then you can make your tablet into whatever nationality you wish?
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2007-11-21
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Originally Posted by peterjb31
Oh, quite. I guess there must have been another reason back before 2001 when all other countries had their own local currency, but memory fails me ATM :-)
England doesn't use the euro, therefore we are special and should get good stuff sooner. Is anyone else following the logic?
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2007-11-21
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Because either they'll start falling down and you blame them or you could buy them and not a new tablet 