I've had my n800 for a couple of weeks now, and my hope was the same, namely; to run the Garnet VM and use the n800 as a Palm TX replacement. But I have to tell you it's not an easy route at all. On my machine, the Garnet VM (which is only a beta, and expires next May) has sound problems: they'll work for a while then the app producing them just crashes and sound no longer works. I've reloaded the VM a couple of times and this problem persists. I've even re-flashed the n800 and started from a clean machine; no joy. So that means that alarm sounds from the VM just quit working. Apps that don't use alarms/sound seem to be OK. I'm running HanDBase and Wordsmith with no problems so far.

Then the available native PIM apps for the n800 are few and very buggy. There are only a couple of calendar apps available with alarms, both bugridden. Apps for storing contacts are mostly aimed at electronic communication only (the built in contact app doesn't even have a field for a street address!); the few that aim higher: buggy. Database apps: I haven't found any that work right. Gnumeric seems to be a fairly decent app for reading Excel files, but even it has some problems where some of it's dialog boxes are partly off-screen.

All in all, the PIM area is very poorly supported on the n800, which is a crying shame. If Nokia would put out a few really good apps in that area, the n8x0 machines would comprehensively kick what's left of Palm's rear-end, and very possibly eat into the sales of Windows Mobile devices. Certainly it could be the killer device for folks who don't want a combo PDA & phone!