Hi,

I thought it might be useful for other users and developers to share my experience as business user who opted to replace my PDA/Phone (xda IIi) and laptop with the 770 and now a new n800 and a Nokia 6680 3G mobile phone and the ThinkOutside BT keyboard.

The buggest benefit is that my arms no longer ache when I travel and that is worth a lot. I no longer have to carry a laptop bag or even a collection of power adapters. This may seem like a trivial thing but international travel with a heavy laptop bag is a night mare, especially these days with more and more security checks. I have been a user of sony lightweight laptops for about a decade and think they are are amazing and for a laptop light. But if you want to check email on the go you end up with either a separate PDA or a PDA/phone.

I consider a UMPC when initially looking at the 770 but I was put of by the lack of battery life, weight, and the fact that it wasn't small enough to replace my PDA. After extensive searching and product trails I picked the 770 and I am a delighted user and now a mean Mahjong player.

I have found that the RDesktop port has worked well. I use it on a daily basis to access the company's remote access server and to use accounting and sales applications. The screen on 770 and n800 are wonderfully clear and even though they are small I can easily do my work. Getting the RDesktop to run on the n800 initially was difficult. This is because the library libxau0 was not present. I am not familar with the technical side of the n800 but managed to solve the problem using the "keep downloading applications until it fixes it self". I installed Xterminal, MiniMo Browser, VNC client and then retried the RDesktop, it downloaded and worked first time.

My first impressions of the n800 are that it is a big improvement on the 770. The speed difference is very noticable and welcome. I know they has been some disappointment from the hardworking developer community that has supported the 770 that the OS2007 operating system isn't backward compatible. I sympathise and as an end user sincerely hope that Nokia's handling of this doesn't discourage the development community too much. I have been impressed how the applications that I used on my 770 with a little tweaking have also worked on the n800. And would like to thank everyone who over the past few days have been posting help on how to get things working.

I think there is room for improvement and perhaps opportunities for the developers. A full supported RDesktop would be a significant step forward with someway of "right clicking" objects on the host windows pc. The ability to hide the IM contacts or replace it with a PIM more geared towards business contact use would be wonderful also.

The weakest part of the whole n800/770 for me is undoubtedly the email client. Mainly because of the lack of support for IMAP folders. I end up using the web mail support for our company email server because my email is stored in folders on the server and I can't access these via the email client on n800/770.

I hope some of you find this useful.

Regards
Damian