1/ fingerprints aren't permanent, no, but the fine-grained scratches on the back are.
2/ the iPodTouch doesn't have an ear-piece/speaker like iphone, it seems to have a piezo buzzer attached to the metal case. reminds me of my childhood and crystal earpieces on AM radios!
6/ I stand corrected, I found the folder feature in bookmarks edit, thanks. It doesn't drag and drop though (unlike tablet bookmark manager), you have to edit the bookmark and choose folder, so useable but not great.
7/ interesting. copy/paste on n800 is purely text, useful/useable but basic. it's still feels a bit like it's "shoehorned in" rather than a well-planned feature.
11/ agreed. the higher res of the tablet is unfortunately not matched with the bandwidth of the video controller and thus I guess the apple's ability to play full motion video at full screen 100% resolution means as a media player it's a better compromise. I know we use the tablets for video but Nokia did indicate with the n810 and its more restrictive storage that they didn't see it as a video player per se.
12/ whilst I can whinge about being charged for software updates for ipodtouch, at least they haven't abandoned it, whereas all I see now are "fixed in freemantle"