http://news.ycombinator.com/ is your Best bet, decent discussions

Ummm, just because you are used to do stuff in a certain way dont mean that it is the only way to do it. While a onscreen keyboard isnøt as good as a real kb it is perfectly fine for annotation. I annotate a lot of documents on my ipad without problems.

Ahh, apple got way more than 10% of the smartphone market, and way way way more of the tablet market.

Umm, they are fine for annotating papers/books. They got a virtual keyboard for text input (hold a place in the paper/book a note pops up and you can input text). Other usecases: Websurfing (I prefer to browse on my tablet, computer to a laptop). Wathing videos Games (and ssh works fine too)

Yes it is, they choose a license that allows the manufactures to lockdown the handsets.

No incorrect, the only thing that rivals the cpu for poweruse in amodern smartphone/tablet is the screen.

They write nothing about power consumption... I am disappointed. The most important benchmark of a mobile CPU is power consumption, I can stick a atom in a cellphone to get a lot of cpu power, but the batteries will be toast in no time.

Only if its not a switched network. WPA2 will work against this as the users can't see each others traffic.

Or prehaps they will be outmanouvered by iphones, WP7 and android gaming phones..