OK, I agree that there is such a thing as a convergence device; and I have had a few of them for a while now. It is the Internet-connected PC.

I have a server in my basement, tied into my phone line (so my wife can make cheap Skype phone calls to her grandma in Germany, also so my friends in other countries can call me for free by Skyping me), and holding hundreds of hours of music and video, and thousands of digital photos that we've taken over the years. I have another computer behind my TV and an old PIII laptop on the kitchen table (or folded up on the bench when not in use).

When my wife makes a long distance call on her cordless phone via Skype, sends some digital photos to the local supermarket for printing while sitting at the kitchen table, or presses "play" on the remote in the living room so my daughter can watch Thomas the Tank Engine go off the rails yet again, she's using my "converged" network of PCs. When I put Radio Paradise on the speakers in various rooms in the house, it is coming from California via my "converged" network.

The reason why I believe the N8x0 is a better "convergence" device is that it is a hand-held, Internet-connected PC, the very essence of "convergence" for me. You can make phone calls on it and you can be on all of the IM networks, so it is a great communicator. It plays media fairly well, and it can do most anything a PC can do. Some people use it to tune their cars, some use it to tune their guitars.

I truly believe the whole mobile phone industry, as it currently stands, is an evolutionary dead-end. True convergence won't happen until they discard the whole idea of closed, proprietary communications entirely and everyone is carrying around hand-held, Internet-connected PCs. I don't care who makes them, I don't care who provides the services, as long as I can get on the 'Net with my device (for a reasonable flat rate of course) and use any application I want to do what I want.