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Originally Posted by dbec10 View Post
Things to note from the review would be this bit;
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Despite packing sophisticated hardware, the N800 lacks all sorts of key software needed to bring the platform into the mainstream. Some of the omissions are typical of open-source–focused projects, but others are totally inexplicable.

Let's start with the inexplicable. There's no way to sync the N800 with a PC or Mac, nor can you sync calendar or contact information. To me, that's unbelievably annoying. Similarly, though ...."

and this bit

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The lack of software puts the N800 in the usual odd spot for an "Internet tablet"—a neat piece of tech with no killer app. It has a far better screen and Web browser than, say, a Palm TX or HP iPAQ rx5915, but those two devices have thousands of programs available for them; the N800 runs just about 15. "


Pretty much what I've said in another thread somewhere else.
I think the arguments are null and void. Syncing is only useful for PDAs and mp3 players, very few companies are giving people both laptops and desktops, so syncing those two really isn't done anymore. Nokia has never claimed that this is a PDA or an mp3 player (though it does play mp3s).

As for the software argument, how long has the Palm TX and the HP iPAQ been around? Now compare that time to the Nokia tablets. I have about 20 programs installed, and at least another 27 I could install, more if I had more repositories, and to the best of my knowledge no one has set up an http server for the Palm or HP, yet you can get at least 1 for the nokias. When it comes to software, she didn't know what she was talking about. Gaim for example has already been ported to the Nokias, both the 770 and the 800.

That's my 2 cents on the topic

Last edited by rattis; 2007-03-01 at 18:59.