[vidarh]

Yes, that's the story I've heard too, and I can absolutely believe that. While the rest of us threw stuff at the wall and got frustrated when it didn't stick, they had a benchmark to aim for.

Here's an early article on our attempt [1], and you can see how far the specs were from a tolerable tablet or from being able to shrink the it down to a phone form factor (the original design actually called for a very small dumb handset for the tablet that magnetically attached to the speaker magnets in the tablet, and induction charged; amusingly Sony finally relased a handset for one of their phablets a couple of years ago - we were over a decade ahead of our time ;) )

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/freepad-norways-alternative-to-...