Thank you for your help. I will go with the cloning as that seems to be the best idea. so if the device uses a compressed partition to make 256mb able to hold 1gb, can you use that same compression to partition you sd card to increase it's capacity? I have an 8gb sd, so 32gb in compressed form? or am I misunderstanding something here? I will try those items to increase performance as soon as I free up some space. right now I'm not enjoying the device as much as I should be because of the space limitations and poor wifi and browsing problems. as I mentioned above I can't find a setting to change it's voltage so it's at whatever the default is. I assume changing it higher will affect the battery life but how much? All I really want to be able to do is surf the web with acceptable brwsing speed,, watch flash video, check email, have enough space to install apps and have a conn that doesn't drop every 5 minutes. doesn't seem like to much to ask. I have a super cheap chinese 7" ipad knockoff tablet that does all of that and more and is faster...but the screen is not as nice and it won't fit in my pocket. Oh, and you can install apps to or from the sd, not issues at all. weird. the nokia device is of a higher build quality to be sure. it has better battery life and the battery is user replaceable which is nice. if I can get it to do this simple things I outlines I will have a winner. I can't afford data phone plans as I said so that route is out. one last thing. with the android tablets there is often customer roms that enable all sorts of things. is there anything like that for the n810? Thanks again.