Johnx, pooint well taken.

However, a broad base of visitors to this forum, excluding you and a lot of others, see the N8XX as a cool, techie linux device that only they should be able to use.

Even your points are flawed. Heres why:

1) I will be paying a lot more for functionality I won't use.
You don't know how much manufacuring cost goes into adding voice capability. It will likely be a charge added at no cost to you or minimal cost. A lot more ? I dont think so.

2) It won't work on the carrier of my choice.
They will likely make a US, Asian and European version but either way you just do not know this and thus this points amkes me think you have another motive.

3) It will lead to restrictions in what we can do with the tablet.
johnx, it will not necessarily lead to restrictions or enhancements. You just do know this and this again makes me wonder if the problem isnt just that you want to keep this device out of the hand of a larger market.

You can see from a lot of the posts in this thread that some people want to drown out the true subject here with other on related junk. Its clear though that voice is coming. The writing is onthe wall.