ok, two years afer getting a 770 and a good year on from getting my 800 i've finally done what i meant to do from the start and done the root thing and done some very basic work.

Never having touched xterm or become root before I finally did it to get the USB host finctionality.

Mara's work here

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...0&postcount=12

and pipeline's here

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...emelFM2&page=3

made it quite painless.

But now it's done, and there's the two icons in extras that simply need to be clicked to make a thumbdrive usable, it makes me wonder even more

WHY IS THIS NOT BUILT IN AS STANDARD?

Really, can any of you with nokia connections, or business experience in this field, tell me why?

I simply don't understand Nokia here - the device has the functionality, the software is not a problem, yet a user has to junmp through hoops to get a simple (yet so important) thing like being able to plug in a thumbdrive into the device and use it.

My n800 goes with me wherever I go, whether to the shops or to another country, it's a wonderful thing that seems to be deliberately crippled.

I've always disliked Apple's habit of releasing a cut-down ipod when the next gen (colour screen, video, mor ememory etc) is always ready to go and pick consumers pockets a second time.

Thisa doesn't seem to be the case with the NITs, but it just seems to me that something like USB Host is exactly what casual users/buyers would see as a good thing, should be enbaled by default.

I genuinely would like to know if anyone has an explaination of this