With Opera Mobile 9 coming to Symbian and Windows Mobile, I think the need for the N800 will lessen. We're slowly moving towards convergence, and I think superphones like the N95 or iPhone can provide comparable browsing experiences.

Obviously flash and screen resolution will hamper this, but scaling is improving so rapidly that I expect the phones to catch the Internet Tablet in the next year or two.

It is my hope that the N800 can stay ahead by providing better implementations of Opera 9, Skype and email.

You would think with an 800x480 touch screen we could have a nice email application that fits on the screen properly but they treat the device as if its a scaled down desktop OS. I hate to bring up the iPhone... but Apple wasn't kidding when they claimed their software was 5 years ahead of other mobiles.

Nokia needs to focus on usability, large icons and flowing interface elements to name some.

If I click an email subject, it should slide over to the email for viewing. Click close and it slides back to the subject lists. Why the hell is it opening a new window, which takes 4-5 seconds just to load. Most of the software on the N800 is fairly bogus.

I won't discount the potential, nor the superior browsing experience. But its mostly due to linux and Opera... everything else is pretty weak.

They need to toss the entire email client, rebuild the contacts application, implement a calendar, and give us proper media playback, accelerated by the DSP.