I would be happy to use Abiword & Gnumeric if they'd work. But last time I checked, Gnumeric on os2008 couldn't correctly read Excel files and Abiword wasn't even ported for os2008.

There is a definite need for the n8xx's to be able to at least read (and preferably edit) Excel & Msword files. They also need a good calendar with alarms, a serious contact manager and a flatfile database app. I would certainly pay money for a suite that could do those things. Right now I'm running Palm apps under the Garnet VM to fill in for the contact manager and database, and translating Excel & Msword into html & rtf files via OpenOffice to get SOME functionality there.

The Nokia tablets are very good hardware crippled by the lack of good software. Unfortunately, the Open Source Linux community isn't much help here, because the apps have to be 'hildonized'. That's not a knock on the folks here who do great work to port apps to the tablets. There just aren't enough of them, and they do it as a sideline. I don't know if there IS a good solution to this...