I bought my N800 the day after the presentation last year, and I got exactly what I expected.. since then I only see new possibilities as new software comes along. The only slightly sad fact that came up after I bought it was the bandwidth issue for the LCD screen (caused by the larger display combined with chipsets not really designed for such high-resolution screens yet). No big deal, as in practice I don't have any real 3D needs.

(EDIT: Oh, and for the, as stupid reviewers are so keen to point out, "missing" SIM slot - I'm just about to get my phone upgraded _again_, this time getting even higher data transfer speed. It would have been insane to be locked into whatever old tech was built into a hypothetical N800SIM model at the time I bought it. At work we get new phones all the time, keeping up with the times. Can't get them to give me a new NIT instead, that's for sure!)