Missing java applet support is the showstopper for me for interacting with my bank. This is something that'll be available at some stage, hopefully. If so I think the N800 would be a perfectly fine on-the-road banking device, particularly if it could be combined with that trick of using a USB dongle at internet cafes to get wireless support where there are no hotspots.. (I haven't tried this but it was discussed in another thread a couple of months back)