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"Sure it has email, but it barely functions with IMAP servers (and gmail)"
yeah i agree the inbuilt email sucks. But there are 3rd party which are also not that good. However i dont have any idea of the mail on iphone. But nokia will improve for sure.


" Sure it has music playback, but it only works with drag and drop directories."

So what is wrong with drag and drop? I mean seriously it is way better than the itunes. If you want to share a music folder with your friend just take out the memory card and that is all. No need to go back to your home and connect to the computer! I find it very convenient. I dont need any cables to carry everywhere. Almost all the laptops come with card readers and i just put my card and copy them on to my memory card. I will take memory card any time in comparison to itunes software. Please tell me what is the disadvantage of drag and drop??


" Sure it has Skype, but it doesn't support the BUILT IN front-facing camera"

YOu should understand that skype for linux supported video recently so it will take a little time. but video is supported by gizmo. Just look at the convenince of video calling anywhere. And then there are gtalk and skype for really cheap calling. Can iphone do any of these?? For that matter it cant even record just video and the most unbeleiveanle thing is that it can t copy and paste. How bad is that if your friend sends you a link?? or you need to post alink for reference?? good luck with that!! Having such a great support for voip is really nice> There again this is the first device which has such extensive support in a mobile device and that too with video.


"Sure its got a nice screen, but it has terrible tearing and no hardware acceleration."


The screen is the best in comparison to any mobile device. Iphone's screen is no where near. I realized that you have to zoom evertime for every page. And the most irritating thing i found was iputting text in a field after zooming. come on you just tap the box and enter stuff. I tried to do this on an apple itouch and it was very very irritating.


" Tell me one thing it does very well? Nothing It gets by on the web, thats about
it."

The iphone can do only onething well kinetic scrolling. Then there is the eyecandy which looks good. Web browsing is not great as you need to keep on tapping and zooming.
Another thing is the built in stand. What a convenience it is!! Where as you should always handle the iphone with your hands. Not always convenient.


" Music and Video - iPhone"

Can you say what the iphone can do better than the n800. Consider the 3rd party music players like kaju(A2dp) and ukmp and media center(with mplayer) and the upcoming canola.
One major major thing is the lack of internet radio and fm radio. I guess that comes under music. Seriously did you ever use internet radio. It is the best use fo the internet tablet. It is like having a hundred gigs at your disposal. i listen to internet radio which is free and then if i like a song i just download it. INternet radio itself beats the iphone. I use it to to stream radio via my phone using bluetooth.
If you never used it you please do. Then you may realise how big a deal it is. One good site is shoutcast.com. And can you explain why apple doesnt include fm radio in any of their devices?? Let me explain this they just want people to buy more and more songs from the itunes. I mean even the tiniest devices made by even lg or samsung or any other companies has an inbuilt fm tuner. It is so convenient to listen to fm stations. The internet tablets are good for music. And coming to videos. The iphone can play just the basic formats nothing more than that. I can just put an 800mb file dvd rip on my n800 and it plays easily. Can you do that??
And then there is the torrent client called transmission. I just start a torrent and download the album direct to my n800. that is really great. Sure that is not legal. But that is how 99% of us on the internet are. Can you do that?


"Email - iPhone" THe n800 has a bad email client. I will agree if the iphone,s email client is good enough and it should be.


"You Tube - iPhone" - Strongly disagree.


Most of the videos i see are never converted to the mobile website. WIth os 2008 youtube is really really good. Then there are the built in speakers. Generally when we show of you tube videos i use the speakers to listen to the sound. That is the best part- stereo speakers. And i reallly hate it when it has to be again re-encoded to another format just for another device. Give me a break. I will definitely take the original youtube website any day in comparision to the re-encoded ones. Just imagine another company making another device and youtube encoding for that again. Come on if you can make your device to work with the web version .... good. If not just get out there and improve your product dont start changing the standard just for that. A good example is all those video formats over there. In the long run it is the customers which lose because of these formats. Nokia never tries to put a format down the customers throat. WIth nokia there is always a choice. That i feel is morally and ethicallly right.


"Mapping - iPhone (debatable if you can actually figure out Maemo Mapper)"


Are you kidding me?? With 50$ you can connect to an actual gps module. There again that is choice. Compared to none with the iphone. The n800 has a myraid of options here with maemo mapper, nokia maps, wayfinder if you want real gps. Here again you have choice.


Photo Viewing - iPhone"

- Here again the n800's screen is far better and with the
help of the upcoming canola and other apps like the media center it is definitely comparable with the n800. of course it doesnt have a 2 mega pixel camera. Yeah it definietly needs a good camere.

Web Browser- Saying that the iphone"s web browser is better than the n800's is a joke. Nuff said.


Yeah i agree that at this point the general consensus is that iphone is easy to use. But i believe in choice. I have educated my friends by telling them what the n800 can do for its price and about 7 of my friends have brought the n800. They are total noobs. They found it a little irritating at first but after some days they can never leave it alone> The most important thing is choice. DOnt always think that
the iphone is the best option. Present the choices and explain and let them chooose. This is what i want to achieve from my post.