Ari Jaaksi posts the road map for the Nokia Internet Tablet

Exciting stuff. I’m glad to see him being so transparent. Too many companies keep their plans a secret. I guess you have to in such a cut throat industry:

People are asking for roadmaps for internet tablets and our software.
Hey … these are all trade secrets Seriously, I do not want to go
and comment all "are you gonna have xyz and when?" -questions, for they
are so many, and often even we do not know the answer yet. But let me
try to paint a picture – illustrate some of our thinking. So here we go:

Short term

In a few weeks (I hope) we’ll release a new version of the OS2007 with a
-better Flash performance
-better video performance and quality
-longer usage times i.e. better power management
-fixes here and there
These are still in the owen so wait and see.

Mid term

Then later this year we ‘ll have an
-updated browser with better WEB 2.0 support and other goodies
-improved multimedia support with more formats supported
-improved package management to better enable sw upgrading
-interesting 3rd party software such as Skype and Real Rhapsody
-more apps & stuff downloadable from http://tableteer.nokia.com/ (can be accessed with an internet tablet, only ….)

We
want to also strenghten our open source community approach. We need to
better articulate, how developers can participate in the development of
these devices. Today it happens primarilly in upstream projects, and
that will always be the most important way for collaboration. So see
you @ GUAGEC, FOSDEM, DEBCONF etc and @ sourceforge etc. In addition,
we will improve the usage of our external bugzilla, and study how to push Sardine forward. Also, www.maemo.org will be constantly improved with the help of the developer community.

Long term

Now this gets more difficult. But we’ll work on new software to improve your internet experience. And we’ll get WiMAX. And …

And already now…

I
wrote this whole post with the finger keyboard on my n800. I hardly use
the stylus anymore but only with busy web pages. Also, I took this
picture

from my hotel room a minute ago with my N91, and used my N800 to get in on this blog. Cool, eh..?

I can’t wait to buy one of these things!