Thread: Nokia discontinuing N800?
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2008-02-01 , 17:18
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Originally Posted by Hedgecore View Post
I'm still sitting on the 770. Remember that huge upheaval when the N800 came out and we were stuck witting on our barely-a-year-old $400 770s? You caved, I didn't. :P

Seeing how the N810 swept in and isn't a marked improvement over the N800, I for one am waiting until step 5. They can polish their product line on someone else's dime.

The 770 will be left by the wayside soon, and with that, so will I. Hope I've still got a few months left here, I happen to like you guys.

(If it truly is being left behind, OPEN IT. (Why do you think I'm considering an EEE PC?)
Well, I'd agree that they can polish their product line on someone else's dime. That's why I bought the N800, when the N810 was unveiled and the price had dropped to about $210 for the N800. (I could have been happy waiting a couple months, but wasn't interested in paying that premium for the slight enhancements.) They're not making an awful lot of profit off of that, but it gives me a decent tablet. Maybe, at some point, I'll buy an N810. Perhaps as a backup Diablo machine, while I'm not buying their brand-spanking-new next thing.

Unless you're real tight on cash, I don't see the rationality of refusing to buy the N800 at all. Just figure it will be ditched, and buy it only at the low price that a ditched tablet is worth.