You all raise some great points.
I certainly have been immensely frustrated with the N800 at times but as I reflect on the thread here a little, I am brought back to the other devices I have used and see with clarity much the same scenario. While I am a little more 'user' savvy on the Palm OS, I had many frustrations with the Treo650 and at times more strangely the Palm TX with just plain bizarre behaviour or instability. I also looked at many other possible mobile options. Windows Mobile is just a big profit mongering fest for common apps that are hardly 'new'. I got close to purchasing a "Tablet Kiosk" product. A very nice and powerful unit but again XP.

So with the N800's I have stressed a bit, with Skype2008 working on one unit and oddly installed but non-launching on the other(fixed now), but my "attitude of gratitude" is growing every day here!

Really, when this baby is working it is working great. What about the part, everything is FREE !?!?!?
Aren't all these people, donating their time and complex efforts for nothing?
SO as much as I could really gripe and flame with these growing pains as a Palm/Apple crossover Linux newbie, I really have to step back and say KUDOs! to the development teams who are doing some truly funky stuff here. Really.
That's community. And these volunteers of sorts are really giving it momentum and professional look.
I now find myself 'bragging' (a little) to my friends who are still pondering their choices and waiting and waiting for a locked up iPhone or something crackberry.ish in Canada.

EEEE? sounds like a replay of the flavours of the ol e-mate/apple. yawn-againnnn.