A Nokia press release on mobility notes that “while employees may be in the office, they may spend more than a third of their time away from their desks.”

This, of course, echoes the noteworthy Bill Gates argument that workers really need an auxiliary, ultra-mobile device that is “complementary to their PC, and [in which they] have all their states, the same applications, [which they are] able to carry that around, … that’s very attractive.” What’s needed, he says, is a way for people to get at information easily, with such portable devices being extremely practical.

Of course, that’s what is already here with the Nokia 770, if you change it into a business device, rather than just a web one. Or use it as a remote controller, an “auxiliary display” Gates calls it, of your desktop.

Seems to me this is the opening salvo in the Nokia 770 business-use case, or for one of the 770’s successors as the Internet Tablet splits into home and business camps.