In some ways, it's certainly a toss up considering the N810's SRP and the price of an unlocked iPhone. Apple's philosophy has always been make it simple, seamless and innovative for the average consumer. The PC and hacker crowd instead wants more open hardware and modification abilities. It's like a yin/yang, left/right brain thing. Apples do what they do very well, but they're not for everyone.

ITs are excellent, handheld browsers. I just think if Nokia said, right from the start, that they're also going to make and sell the N8xx (with their camera and Voip abilities) as a turnkey video call system, they'd be on the cover of Time instead.

Before they released the series, they could have approached Skype, Gizmo or Google just like Apple approached AT&T and Youtube. They could have presented this vision and put something together that would benefit everyone. Just a few well placed TV ads showing generic American families making handheld video calls (for "FREE", over their home WiFi ) and the shelves would clear rapidly by Xmas. Heck, they could have tied the devices in a with major ISP like a Tivo ("Get a free portable wifi browser & videophone with a 2 year contract").

Instead, if they're thinking about that at all, they may have shifted such developments to their cell phone research and newer signal protocols.