Let me debate that point for point

1. It's not about whether it is a Shelby or a Ferrari. My point was that you don't buy a sports car and then comment that it's not very good off-road. Just as you don't buy an N800 as an Internet Tablet then then complain that it doesn't have PIMs or doesn't sync PIM data. Where on the packing box or on Nokia's site does it say that it had PIM functionality in the first place. Point is, he shouldn't be complaining about the absence of something that's not supposed to be there in the first place.

2. Connectivity -- I'm not sure what things are like in the US or wherever you guys are based. In the Middle East and most of Asia where I come from, GPRS/EDGE is the norm, with most networks offering 3G/3.5G data services. Nokia isn't building the iT for the US only, so maybe US folks should remember that there is the rest of the world out there, and that constitutes most of Nokia's market base, not the US. The tech-literate in the Middle East and Asia have no problems hooking up the iT to their GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA-capable cellphones over BT (hence the presence of the wizard to set up the mobile phone in Control Panel), and enjoying connectivity wherever, whenever in the absence of publicly-accessible WiFi hotspots.

3. FM Radio was an afterthought. For whatever reason it was, Nokia chose not to enable it, hence there is no liability on them to provide it or support it. Perhaps it was an easter egg, perhaps they found that the FM Radio interfered with another more important functionality. Whatever the case may be, it's not supposed to be there, so there is nothing to complain about -- see point 1 above.

4. GSM Radio - Nokia chose not to include the radio for a purpose. From a marketing point of view, let me explain:

Market positioning - this is meant to be a companion device to the mobile phone. A tablet that would connect a user back to the Internet, whenever, wherever.

Market fact - most people have cellphones.

Most people already have all their contacts on their cellphone.

People do not want to have to maintain two separate radio devices, much less have to juggle the SIM between the cellphone and the tablet.

If the tablet was radio-enabled (GSM/UMTS radio), then people would complain that it is too big for a cellphone and too underpowered as a PDA.

This would kill the product instantly. A product with a serious identity crisis -- all the flaws of both cellphone and PDA, none of the benefits.

If the tablet was radio-enabled, battery life would also be an issue, which means that

a. people would start complaining about poor battery life, or
b. if Nokia increased the battery capacity with a larger cell, people would complain about weight and size
c. if Nokia got this all right using really advanced Li-Ion technology, low-power screens, power-saving + high speed processors, the price would be pretty close to an iPhone. Would you buy an iT then?

5. Me having decided the device was the right choice for me was the result of a clear and precise needs analysis. I know exactly what functions I want the device to do, and manage my expectations accordingly. Is it my fault that there are whinging consumers out there who jump into a purchase emotionally and then go on to whinge endlessly about how the device doesn't do what it wasn't supposed to do?

I've been on this forum for what, 2 months? In my stay here, I have seen way too many instances of people crying foul about what the device is not supposed to do in the first place, e.g. (but not limited to):

A2DP
Booting from memory card
KDE
OpenOffice
KOffice
FM Radio
OGG

You say that "unfortunetly N8xx doesn't exactly shine for somebody who won't put some (minimal) effort in geting the best out of it".

Firstly, no tech device will do squat without the user getting around to RTFM. Go out, buy an E61i (or an E62) and tell me if you can get the most/best out of it without minimal effort. The N800 I bought worked as expected ('expected' being the keyword here) out of the box --

Gizmo worked
Skype worked
Internet Radio worked
the web browser worked
YouTube worked
Google Docs worked
Google Calendar worked
Gmail worked (web browser)

Gmail and IMAP didn't and I'm annoyed with that, but I have my E51 for my office pushmail and Gmail needs anyway, and I'm faster inputing text on my E51 than I am on my N800 anyway.

Guess what. Complete newcomers need to wake the *** up and get used to reading manuals if they want to get some decent mileage out of ANYTHING -- cars (how many people do you know actually KNOW how often their oil and fludis should be changed?), PDAs, cellphones ("oh really? I didn't know my E51 could do VoIP and IM. How did you know about this?"), notebooks, etc.

That's what forums are for, to help people get the most out of what they bought or to help when things go wrong, but NOT as a replacement for the manual. You reap what you sow.