The N810W is a better convergence device than the N95, hands-down. It can make and receive phone calls as easily as the N95 (and it can do it for "free" via GrandCentral), it can surf the 'net, watch movies, run OpenOffice, etc., etc...

What's that you say? It doesn't work outside a very limited coverage area?

Well, you can't blame the fact that the support infrastructure isn't in place on the device! The problem is that there's no homogeneous high speed global wireless data infrastructure in place... yet.

Convergence, in any meaningful sense, can't really happen until you can use a single radio & protocol for all of your data and voice needs. "Smartphones" are, at best, hack jobs on the same level as my Debian chroot hack. They cleverly disguise the fact that they are putting two separate worlds (voice and data) side-by-side, and make it look like those two worlds are "converging". They aren't. The fact they are living on the same device doesn't make them "converged". They're not truly united, they're only uneasy roommates, always jostling each other around in your tiny box.

As I've said before, I blame the entrenched telcos for this. As long as they control the infrastructure, you're never going to see true convergence. They know that if they were to create a widespread, high-speed wireless data network, nobody would use their voice networks, and more importantly, they wouldn't be able to charge 15 cents a text message any more!

To put it bluntly, there's no profit in convergence. The only chance we have at convergence is a rogue third party to enter the scene, someone with deep pockets and no history in the wireless voice marketplace, someone who sees a profit in undercutting the telcos by creating a huge wireless data network... It would also help if they had some kind of infrastructure in place for something else, where they could piggyback their antennas on their existing infrastructure... Perhaps an association of cable TV companies, or maybe power companies? They could put the antennas on their big electrical towers...