Rocketman, I agree that a removable card would be better, but the N810 isn't the first relatively expensive device to include non-removable storage. Think of iPod and many other products with internal drives or flash.

So it's not an ideal situation, but hardly unique to the N810. And the N810 does still support one removable card, so you wouldn't be completely out of luck if you decided not to get it repaired.