Excuse me, but you wouldn't buy a Ferrari and then comment about the absence of a trick off-road differential that you had in your Land Cruiser right?

The Nokia Internet Tablets were never meant as PDAs, and hence Nokia never wrote PIMs for it. If you want PDA capabilities, buy a smartphone or a PDA. Most smartphones today would built-in PDAs, and the iT is meant to be a companion to a smartphone, not a PDA.

By the way, I believe you are also specifically referring to the absence of calendar and task applications, not a contacts manager, as there is one in the iT as it were.

My comments on the review:

"Sadly, that’s the beginning and end of what we like about the N810. The rest just seems like disappointment after disappointment. For example, the only net-connection options are Wi-Fi or a Bluetooth-attached mobile phone. Like its predecessors, the N810 has no built in mobile phone functionality of its own -- despite being made by Nokia." -- clearly the reviewer has failed to understand that this device was NEVER meant to have GSM radio, and is a standalone device working in tandem with ubiquitous WiFi networks and as a companion to a mobile phone for connectivity (hence the inclusion of BT DUN profile)

"Frankly, the built-in FM radio on the N800 was more useful, but Nokia has removed it from the N810. Why, for goodness’ sake?" -- not an official feature. Reviewer fails again.

"Stick OS2008 onto one of these (a task that’s both free and easy) and you’ll have a gadget that runs just as fast but that costs £125 less and has a built-in FM radio to boot. Seems like a no-brainer to us." -- yes, and if I recall correctly, FM radio breaks something (can't remember what it is now, but similar to how installing OGG breaks audio in for VoIP calls). And reviewer seems to think that the N800 and N810 are in competition with each other. They're not. The N810 was designed for people who wanted to have GPS and keyboard and didn't mind living with miniSD, while the N800 was targeted at people who didn't need the physical keyboard and GPS and wanted 2 full-sized SD/SDHC slots.

I rate the review 6 out of 10. He could have gone into the media playback capability, the fact that it does Internet Radio and has a pretty decent list of stations in the directory, video playback of DivX/AVI/MP4, ability to download and install software on the fly, fails to mention that Skype and Gizmo voice calls are a breeze, and the fact that Pidgin Internet Messenger gets you connected to all the major IM service providers.

Journalism has really gone downhill in the last couple of years. I would have fired my contributors if I ran a media publication of sorts and they wrote biased tripe like this.