As a long-time Unix/Linux guy I'm obviously also with the 'do one thing well' mantra.. but there is irony everywhere you look these days. I bought my first battery-driven LCD clock radio around 1979, and it looked almost exactly like the N800, except for the N800's LCD touch screen. Later I bought a programmable Sony ICF clock radio, about the same size (slightly narrower and taller), great for traveling. Now it's broken, I need a new one, but guess what, we're back in the late sixties apparently, these are the kind of monster sized clock radios they sell today: http://tinyurl.com/955z8 It's the same down in the local radio shops, everything is just big cubes or otherwise completely non-portable stuff, it's even back to analog search wheels.. not very useful when you need to have access to a dozen pre-programmed stations.
The irony is this: The best small radio I have is my Sony Ericsson mobile phone.. it searches ultra fast, and it's sensitive. But I can't use it, because it will only work if it's connected to the phone's headset, which is useless for me because I don't have ears that can hold earpads. So for the time being I'm busy banging my forehead on nearby walls.