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I'm considering purchasing an n810. I love the large high resolution screen and the keyboard. Also, I would find gps handy (especially now that it has a-gps capability. My primary uses would be (in order of importance)

Reading ebooks
Playing media (mostly music)
Mobile internet access
Basic pda functions - The Garnet VM would be perfect for this, since I'm used to Palm software, and my current (aging) PDA is a palm device
GPS

I want all this, and I want it to fit in my pocket.

The n810 sounds perfect for this, except that I repeatedly hear reports of unreliable software and it being very difficult to set up and difficult to use. I've never used Linux of any form before (I'm familiar with both WM and Palm OS devices) and am not in any way a hacker or a tinkerer. I want a device that works reliably and with a minimum of fuss and trouble, not one I have to look up complex fixes for regularly occurring problems.

I could have everything I want in a WM smartphone, except the largest screen I could get is a tiny 3" thing, and I want a screen that I can use to actually read books and browse the web with some degree of enjoyment.

So, at this point my options are the n810 or ipod touch. The n810 has both a better screen, a keyboard, and gps but an ipod touch is very reliable and easy to use (assuming that the new software coming out for it actually allows it to be used as an offline ebook reader).

So, given my situation, what would you folks recommend? Does the n810 sound like something that would work for me?