Surprisingly, I don't have any problems with the concept of the camera in the N800. Its low resolution more or less matches the screen resolution (although an 800x480 CCD would have made more sense), so it's quite suited to take quick snaps to be viewed on screen only (video-blogging jumps to mind, or that picture-and-text database I keep dreaming about). Since Nokia went throught the trouble of making it rotatable, it was obviously meant for more than just video-calling.

Here's the problem, and it's the same with so many other aspects of the Internet Tablets: Nokia puts in a hardware feature... and then seemingly forgets to tell the software developers it's there. Bluetooth had to be hacked by users in the 770, USB host the same. The touchscreen layer of the tablets is pressure sensitive, but only one developer managed to use it, and Nokia's own painting software doesn't do anything with it.

The camera is the same: it just sits there, doing nothing that's even remotely interesting. As someone wrote: About the most interesting thing the camera does, is add an awkward bulge to the N800.