Sorry to babble the bandwidth, but I just have to rave a bit about what a great tool this Nokia N810 is.

I recently took a long group tour overseas. Wanting to be in email touch, but not carry the weight of a laptop, I bought an N810, plus a little Linksys WTR54GS travel router for hotels with only wired access. Little did I suspect all the uses I'd find for it:

• Email using Claws Mail (for both my wife and me).
• The usual web browsing.
• Phoning home with Skype for pennies a minute.
• Storing PDF documents - the contents of the notebook that the tour operator provided us (right there was 1 1/2 pounds less to carry), the U.S. Customs Service pamphlet, and complete manuals for the N810, the Linksys, my two cameras, and the shortwave radio I bring along.
• But I didn't use the shortwave too much, because I've loaded half a dozen PBS stations and BBC World Service into the Internet Radio applet.
• Reading the New York Times. (I'd load half a dozen articles into browser windows in the morning, and then read them later when out of WiFi range.)
• Playing DOOM on long plane flights.

I didn't expect to use the N810 at all at home, but having all those streaming radio stations available was too good to resist. So my clock radio has been retired. (Just wish there were a clock radio applet that would turn the thing off after 60 minutes.)

I had hoped to use the N810 on flights to check the plane's position, but the GPS is too lame for that. So I relied on the Garmin iQue that I've carried around for years. (Like many iQue owners, I call mine Betty; it just seems to fit the navigation voice. So my more sophisticated N810 is now Veronica.)