What's funny is that Nokia never really stated that the Tablets are for consumers just yet. In fact, I was personally standing in the room when Bill Plummer, VP for Nokia North America said, in L.A., that the Internet Tablet lineup is still somewhere between geek and consumer. The 770 was obviously geek, and the N800 (at the time running OS2007) was a *small* step closer to consumer, and that it would be a few more generations before it was entirely ready for the consumer market.

Thus, I'm not surprised that you feel the tablet isn't ready to replace consumer goods. It's not designed to. Not to say your desired uses aren't legit.

However, the Tablet also works PERFECTLY for some people. For me, I can use it as a portable blogging tool, and it works better than any other mobile device that I've tried.

I am, however, interested to know why in the world you'd want to browse the web in portrait mode?