It's amusing reading one-off, subjective evaluations of this most complex piece of equipment. Having managed digital infrastructure comprised of many hundreds of computers I still end up mystified how any two machines, cloned progeny of the same parent, can end up behaving so differently from one another.

Contrary to the experiences of some, my N800 simply works as I use it throughout the day, for email (Modest/IMAP), or Pidgin, my IM of choice. Until Abiword is completed, I happily create text documents in Notes (exported to HTML and blutetoothed to my Mandriva desktop). Spreadsheets in Gnumeric work great, with the only obstacle being my aging eyes. And I am now learning to love finger-friendly Canola. The Nokia beats the pants off of any notebook wandering around my campus' wireless LAN.

My guess is that for the majority of users, few of whom are represented in this forum, and who likely don't stray far beyond included applications, the experience is more than satisfactory as they learn what it is or isn't suited for.