free: I'm interested/amazed that you think mplayer is the best video player ever. That's certainly not my experience of it - but perhaps we have different expectations or skills.

When it comes to watching a movie I am looking for a simple player which allows me to select a file to play, and has an obvious play and pause button for those times when you get interrupted. A simple slider or something like which can be used to move backwards and forwards through a film, with some indication of how many minutes have been viewed and/or are remaining is good.

The Touch has an excellent player which does that rather well, as does TCPMP on the Palm. Canola does this too, although it is rather slow to pick up a list of files on a media card, and has a habit of only seeing the first 20 odd minutes of a film, or not seeing files on a card. It's certainly not perfect.

mplayer by contrast is totally non-intuitive to use, very inflexible, and constantly crashes - from my experience. And I have never managed to watch a whole movie without the battery running out, which makes the N800 a rather ridiculous platform for movies.

Anyway, I am not posting this to start an argument - as I said at the beginning I am fascinated that what I regard as unusable others may find exceptionally good.

Certainly I find watching movies on the Touch a great experience, but the rest of the device is a waste of time.