If you find anything in German you'd like to understand just point me at it.

One more thing I thought of this morning: it has no keyboard, and there is no guarantee that an on-screen keyboard can be switched to Russian. That's something which would be a definite show stopper for me, I'd like a tablet to use with pons.eu as my dictionary when reading in bed.

The iPad of course is absolutely out of the question. I don't like prisons, even if they are gilded cages. It's not Jobs' job to tell me what I can and cannot do.