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I bought a mini 9 a couple days ago and I am going to be putting my n800 on ebay within a couple weeks(once I get a better idea of how well the mini can replace it). I think my nintendo DS is going to be taking over PIM duty from now on, either that or I can get a new battery for my axim(or my palm m505).

I figure this is as good a place as any to put my "good bye cruel world" post.

The n800 is pretty cool, but it is handicapped at every turn. You can watch youtube videos, sorta. You can run full linux desktop environments, with a giant swap file. You can listen to music, but not ogg(seriously nokia, WTF?). It has a touchscreen, but the iphone is much nicer. USB OTG, that doesn't work properly. FM tuner, that isn't enabled by default and seems to drain the battery even when not running. The beautiful LCD, that you can't watch movies on. The webcam, that I have never ever ever used for anything ever at all.

Oh, and did I mention that it sucks hard at web browisng? For ****s sake. Nokia owns the company that employs the people who invented webkit(khtml), and the piece of **** that is microB is the best they can come up with? I bought this just because I thought the 800x480 LCD would be perfect for web browsing(coming from a Dell axim X30 with a 320x240, with IE), but microB is so bad that the iphone actually comes up on top here, despite the tiny low res LCD. And the fact that it is easier to type on an iphone in portrait mode than it is to write on the n800 in landscape is just criminal. You won't see me buying an iphone though, overpriced piece of proprietary crap(with a nice touch screen and keyboard).

The n800 is such a nice piece of hardware, but it was rendered entirely useless by maemo. The dual SDHC cards are amazing, the LCD is excellent, the push out web cam is nifty, the kick stand, the stereo speakers, the amazing build quality, the whole thing just so nice... and yet so useless.

Edit: sorry if this post is a bit off topic, I read the first few pages and then I read the post above about the mini 9 and thought I would add my 2 cents.

Also, if anyone is looking for a good condition n800...

Last edited by drizek; 2009-02-28 at 07:31.