I give two thumbs up for my N800 in general, and one thumb up for OS2008.

N800: 2TU! I have had more fun with my N800 than with any other computing device since my Commodore 64 in the mid-80s. I love all the software available for it, I love being able to watch mid-70s Doctor Who episodes on the bus, I love being able to take notes at the office using my bluetooth keyboard and MaemoPad+, I like being able to connect to my cheap bluetooth GPS unit and plot my position with Maemo Mapper on a satellite image, then import that plot into Google Earth, I love that I can update my Facebook, check my GMail, listen to Internet radio, and make an Internet call anywhere I can get wireless Internet... The N800 is, for me, the best hand-held device. Ever.

OS2008: 1TU. I like how OS2008 looks (transparency rocks!) and I like being able to ditch Pidgin and move all of my contacts (ICQ, MSN, GTalk) into the built-in system (I was always forgetting to turn on Pidgin), I like the video-to-PC functionality of the new Gizmo 4, I like how you can back up your application settings (because I have managed to toast my system once already trying dangerous things).

I don't like the fact that they included a poor implementation of SMB (Windows) shares with no password capability. I don't like the fact that OS2008 broke a bunch of the OS2007 apps, and nobody's ported them to OS2008. I miss my smbfs, vlc video stream broadcasting from the N800's camera (part of the Peekaboo project), and my panelclock, to name a few. Gizmo can video call to desktop PCs, but the video quality is really hit-and-miss at the moment. Sometimes the quality is acceptible, sometimes it is terrible. I don't like the fact that there's no Skype video yet. Skype Linux video exists, it is time for Skype IT video!

Nokia's support, generally: 1TU. I like that they built the IT architecture on Linux, so that community developers could build and port all sorts of great stuff for the Tablets. I like the look and feel of what they've done with Linux, much more than the cramped-desktop look of other mobile Linux ports (such as the Eee). I like the fact they've pushed much of the Hildon stuff upstream, into the Gnome project, so that the Tablet's look and feel can become a standard on mobile devices. I don't like the fact that there is core IT software that is not open source, and that Nokia hasn't been forthcoming with API and specs for some of the core system stuff.

So overall, I'm pleased with my N800. I'm still waiting for the platform to mature, though.

I hope that the great sales of the N810 will encourage Nokia to put some more resources into polishing the operating system.