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2007-01-19 , 22:27
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Honestly all you great guys provided a lot of valuable information here as pros and cons with regards to your reason to root for N800 or Nokia 770.

As far gud’ ol me is concerned, I will not be buying a N800. This is simply because the Nokia 770 totally serves my purpose. All I wished before Nokia 770 was to have some sort of always-available-procurable Internet Access. And the Nokia 770 does this wonderfully. I know many people have said that they don’t have a stable Wi-fi Connection, others had multiple WSOD, still others could not get GAIM to work, many others had a hard time pairing the Nokia 770 to their GPRS\EDGE\EVDO etc phones.

So far I have been lucky not to have too much of any of these happen to me. Buying a Nokia N800 does not justify spending another $400 when some of the general things it does is like load a bit faster (due to faster processor), has more memory for applications, has two Memory Card Slots. Unfortunately none of these float my boat.

The Wi-Fi connection speed remains the same. The GPRS \ EDGE \ EVDO connections depend on your carrier and the functionality of the phone. I don’t need ultra fast connection to check my emails. I don’t need more memory to surf the web when the speed of the CPU is not ultra fast. I don’t need a faster processor to watch movie files or listen to music on the involved Nokias, I prefer Video / Stereo Devices etc for that.

I did not think of the Nokia 770 as a PDA in anyway whatsoever initially and don’t even do so now. I don’t care for I-phone either simply because I do think that the amount of money required for that device along with the contract involved is ridiculous. I just felt the need of a ‘ Device’ that will allow me to surf the Web at my whims and fancy. The Nokia 770 along with my Nokia 6682 Phone does that very well. What more do I need?

For me, the Nokia 770 has always been better than Dell Axioms, Palm Life Drive and the likes. So buying the N800 immediately within a year’s time simply is not justifiable to me, when there are no truly great changes to the hardware involved.
Last edited by Arjun; 2007-01-29 at 17:44.