This talk about using/utilizing the PIM on the phone is in stark contradiction to what was at one stage implied by Ari: The phone is just a link to the network. So it can be really simple. (Ref. e.g. the blog he posted last year about that lipstick phone as an ideal phone.) I mean, what's the point of buying a rather expensive gadget like the N800 (expensive compared to "normal" phones), if you _also_ has to buy a **!@ "smartphone" too? Just to get access to something that should have been part of the N800 in the first place?

I've said it before: The ideal phone for me is a simple, small, bluetooth-enabled low-cost phone with long battery life (so black-and-white LCD screen is fine), which can stay in the pocket all the time except if somebody calls me on it. And these kind of phones don't have useful PIM apps. And the "PIM" in mid-range phones like my k700i is rubbish. And in my opinion phones are not the best place for PIMs anyway, it's much better to be able to use and looking up stuff at your N800 in front of you while you hold the phone at the ear (and for the same reason it's not a good idea to use the N800 as a generic phone, so I've never agreed with those reviewers complaining about the fact that it isn't a phone).

Just today I found out that the built-in email application in the N800 won't even start if I'm not networked.. what's the point of having it at all then? I only configured it so I had some way of reading the mail archive off-line when I can't go online (because then I just log in to gmail or the office webmail instead). But it's useless now. There's no _need_ for a built-in email app. if it can't be used off-line. (Is there some setting somewhere that can fix this? I forgot my N800 at home so can't test more today.)

EDIT: Turns out the email app. had more severe problems, I had to reboot the N800 to get the email app working at all. After that it does start without being online, so I'll retract that. However it sure likes to try to go online a lot -- I've got the source now (well if it's the right one), so I'll try to hack it a little.