I bought mine cause I travel internationally and didnt want to whip out a laptop everytime I needed net (read email principally) access or get an international phone. AND YES, the Wifi browsing to my email server is perfect and Skype (at 2 cents) is perfect too! Therefore for me it paid off.
BUT-- if I could use it for some business apps, it would then have more value....well, VNC and ftp (the only 2 I have gotten to work) are great for me. I prefer GUI based apps, or I will use my PC laptop. (Quite a few apps arent working but thats probably my lack of Linux understanding...does it need to be so cryprtic? If I need to learn a language I can make more $ learning Chinese )
BUT - why not have a spreadsheet and document reader that work with a universal file format too? After all, there is a documents folder....I would save my Word docs and Excel ss's in a rtf / cvs fromat for the ability to crouch behind a rack and enter updates. THATS VALUE to me. (My phone can do it but my eyes cant read it)
And the N800 has poor documentation...at least there are some die-hard users that have productive and constructive advice and pages...thanks to them too.
PS - if there is a better device, and Nokia won't listen to us, then I WILL buy the better device. Its not about money to me.