The thing that struck me was just how easy the video chat is to set up on the N800 and N810: just enter your Gmail id and password.

I'd gotten the impression from other posts on here that it took all kinds of herculean efforts to get the tablet video chat working, but that's totally untrue, it's a very simple process.


Yeah, having dealt with a lot of newbies you notice this phenomenon called "computer blindness". Intelligent, imaginative people who excel in other areas of life often have severe problems using computers, because they don't understand even basic concepts like switching between tasks.

I know a non-techie who was amazed when I showed them that a computer can do several things at once, they'd been dilligently closing windows before opening new ones. This person I'm talking about has a PhD so they're not stupid, they just have no experience with computing.


This is why I'm so sceptical about wimax's chances outside America, here in Europe we're already on 3.5G and much of Asia is even further ahead. For most internet purposes, 3G is a perfectly adequate substitute for broadband, and 3.5G is even better.

3.5G can provide speeds of many megabits, and more and more network operators here have flat rate internet charges, so there's really no reason to use an alternative such as Wimax under those circumstances.

Things are different in America though, US phone networks aren't as developed or open or as cheap to use, which is why Wimax stands a chance of doing really well over there.