More *****ing.

1/ the device is a fingerprint and scratch magnet. I dont abuse my mobile phone or tablet or ipod but it looks quite shabby.

in contrast my N800 looks very lightly used, not 1y6 months!

2/ the internal speaker is a joke

the n800 speakers are quite respectable especially for speech podcasts and radio

3/ no shoutcast AFAICT

n800 does streaming very well

4/ very restrictive codecs, but ok, this is Apple. at least mplayer solved that

n800 has a fair selection of codecs, in fact it's usually only let down by CPU performance


5/ no linux support whatsoever, it's clear from reading up that apple deliberately kill any attempt by linux devs to make it possible



6/ safari is a miserably basic browser
- bookmarks are a linear list without folders and sub-folders!
- no begin/end of page - big pages require wearing out finger scrolling
- no search function in page
- no save page, no save-target-as (can't download an mp3, can play it though)

n800 browser is a dream in comparison, especially with flash

7/ copy/paste - doesn't work everywhere

n800 "just works".

8/ hardware
8a/ no FM radio. ok, maybe the iPod generation doesn't listen to the radio.
8b/ no camera. ok, the n800's isn't a good example here :-)
8c/ no replaceable battery. I guess it keeps it slim
8d/ no memory slot. even a single microSD would make it far less expendable.


9/ minimal bluetooth stack - basically it's for headphones only

n800 is relatively good - UI needs some work though!

10/ no background tasks without hacking

user should be allowed to control/choose this!


11/ relatively low screen resolution for the price

the n800's screen is fab; even the zaurus with VGA is better! it reminds me of wife's palm TX.

12/ having to pay for firmware updates. and it seems to be all-or-nothing, I could understand it if they separated bug fixes from new features/upgrades.

well, that's enough for now. the only time I pick it up now is either when I have to do my routine testing at work, or when the n800 is on charge!