Ironically, nobody has been able to conclusively refute that at release time, the N810 was unfit for the purposes it was sold for. It still stands uncontested that in a practical context, other devices outperform it and are more responsive.
Why I bought the N810 over them is because it was based on Linux and I was under the mistaken impression that when comparing the devices, the N810 would be able to bear the burden of it's features - which it definitely can't. I've seen more people come on here (like yourself) and state that you can see through to my point and I appreciate that a fair bit.
I will continue to maintain these fair standards and don't feel obligated to compromise my expectations. Especially when the responsiveness of the device in question is already outdone by devices made 6 years ago! I get a kick out of that.
My N810 is sold now (for a decent price as well), good riddance and hopefully it can make somebody with as low of standards as the others here happy. Nokia could crap out another lemon like the N810 (except make it hand-cranked) and they'd still sit there treating it like some exclusive religion. Or an acquired taste. It all turns into "well, the N810 for me is......."
The N810 to most people who bought it is a piece of crap where OS images have been known to ship with broken repositories. The GPS is unstable indoors or out. Single-application load times are abhorrent and again, blackberries respond faster than this! Screen updates are fractured and lengthy. There were corrupted internal memory card issues. Bluetooth communication was a nightmare when I tried to hook up an Apple Bluetooth keyboard there was sometimes 1 to 2 seconds of input lag! The device until the last moment I owned it still had no real effective suspend strategy. Every time I picked the lemon up, it was flat because it never suspended - even within a day, which made me less inclined to try using it. I'll never stop about the GPS because that was such a stillborn joke.
I paid $400 to find this out and not once did Nokia look at their product and the landslide of reviews online and say "wow, we screwed the user experience on this one, why are we selling this through mainstream channels?!"
To be thorough, I'm far from a mainstream user,
but that doesn't mean everything I buy has to be broken. I can't think of many products where I'm going to look at it's advertised features and go "Yeah, but I won't be able to do all that, but here you go, I'll pay for it anyway!" If I'm told a product will do something, it will do it without wasting my time and it will do it well. Period.
This whole "get a grip" attitude is a farce. I have an empty cardboard box that will fly to the moon for all you internet tabletards if you think the N810 is fit for purpose.