Yes, that&#x27;s the story I&#x27;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&#x27;t stick, they had a benchmark to aim for.<p>Here&#x27;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 ;) )<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;freepad-norways-alternative-to-swedens-screen-phone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;freepad-norways-alternative-to-...</a>