Texrat I too would love to be pleasantly surprised

As a user who has found the n800 invaluable over the last few months, I agree with users who experience some trepidation. As a noob to the open source world I must say I don't understand the way in which Nokia wishes to use the community. I see loads of great apps out there, Claws-mail, Abiword, gnumeric, GPE suite, simple launcher, Gizmo, minimo, mplayer, apps that if they were integrated into the system would really make the N800 a juggernaut.
If I had turned on the N800 and the email client had been a well integrated port of claws, and if Abiword were installed with .doc support I would have been immediately able to see value in the device. As is however, I knew what I wanted to use it for and I was able to use it right away. I had a friend who returned his after about 2 weeks because he found he used his smartphone (E61) for all the functions that he wanted an N800 for.

This is where I don't understand, Nokia has the chance to invest a few hundred thousand Euro's in salaries to put some engineers on the job to polish some of these applications. The payoff will come off in users finding that Maemo is a great platform like Symbian and WinMo and the N800 device is the perfect device to use Maemo on.

My wish is for Nokia to make the N800's minimum standard the same level as the integrated googletalk and to not even bother including applications that are broken such as the existing email which I tried to use once and then gave up and the RSS reader which doesn't hold posts at all. Only this way will they find true mass market acceptance.

They have the lead on Intel's MID by having hardware already in the marketplace they should leverage this by keeping current customers happy and using much needed innovation to bring in new users.