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I bought the N800 at a Compu USA on my vacation in San Francisco. I use it every day and here's what I've noticed about the device.

Design wise it feels great looks great on the software side this thing really really really falls apart even on the most basic level especially usability.

1. I'm left handed it would be really nice if we could swap the vertical scroll bars so than when I need to use the stylus to scroll I can see what I'm scrolling to. I mean seriously what were they thinking?

2. The basic apps in general are a JOKE complete and utter JOKE they feel so unpolished I though a summer student at Nokia had written them. Lets see where do I start...

RSS application from time to time it randomly deletes all my feeds, I have yet to find where to tell the applet what feeds to display on the Nokia Home (the opening screen)

The "keep this for later" check box great idea horrible implementation if a user check this box the app should suck the page down in the background instead of requiring the user to actually view the page.

Email application again horribly under featured. Basics such as FILTERS/RULES would be a nice touch. For a portable device where sceen space is limited and navigation is slow enough as it is due to lack of hardware input devices i.e. keyboard/mouse they should have made it as simple and less time consuming as possible to read email.

I have yet to use the Google chat because I haven't figured out how the N800 version works just yet.

PDF reader should have a basic bookmarking feature to remember what page I'm on.

The opera web browser is pretty good, would be nice to see a newer version of flash and perhaps better support for youTube videos but thats probably a processor issue.

I have yet to use the Camera... apparaently Nokia only thinks a camera is good for google chat. Perhaps they could have included something as basica as oh I dunno taking pictures?

Bluetooth headset support is non existant, why not???? it's huge in mobile phones, Nokia makes mobile phones. Put two and two together????

3. Why can't the entire device be navigated by the physical hardware controls that appear on the device or perhaps they can??? I haven't figured that out yet. Nokia take a page from Palms book the 5 way navigator on the Treo's is great.

Overall this device isn't polished it feels like it got rushed out the door to meet sales deadlines. I took a leap of faith with Nokia, if this the best they have to offer the iPhone is going to crush Nokia's Nx whatever device. Get you butt in gear Nokia you have a great idea but it's poorly implemented.

And yes as much of an Apple fan as I am. I'm not opposed to different things Thats why I bought the N800