Personally I find the recessed Power button way too small to use in a hurry which is usually when I need to lock the N800. It's just not a pleasant button to have to use on a regular basis which is why I would prefer assinging the "standby" function to a larger and more easily accesible front-facing button.

Yet again it only serves to highlight what a poor decision it was to use such small buttons on the top of the unit.

I'd agree the behaviour of the power button could be changed to make it more useful, this could be a user definable option in the control panel (single click - either pop up the menu or choose a default action from a list, and the same options for a prolonged click). However, due to the size and recessed nature of this button I absolutely hate it and would prefer to be able to use one of the other larger front-facing buttons for the crucial "standby" (cover on/cover off) mode which I'm sure we would all want to use far more than any other power saving mode.