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Originally Posted by iFrank View Post
welcome, but, as a geek let's contribute to the community instead of... well, you fill the dots
Hey, I for one think posting what seems to be best about the internet tablet and how it's being used by a new user is contributing.

The N800 is one-sixth the size of UMPC's. It weighs less than 8 ounces while they're 29-32 ounces and more. It costs $400 compared to $900 up to $1400. Those are the direct competitors -- they show the same 800 pixel width for web pages and provide desktop OS for app compatability.

The Nokia 770 wasn't the first wifi-enabled, keyboardless, Linux web tablet but the 8th tablet trying to get traction in this niche, and where and why it succeeds needs to be emphasized.

Whatever the internet tablets do clumsily or whatever mistaken choices the Nokia designers made, that shouldn't detract from their signal accomplishments: they succeeded where everyone before them failed and they are doing a better job at tablet building than anyone else.

Oh, and the N800 -- well, being a word nerd, I can't say "I LOVE IT" in all caps. But I give it a 16.8 on a scale of 1-10.
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