at what point did i say the platform was no good?

i bought the device for specific reasons. #1 being reading boardgamegeek/game rule pdfs, #2 being movie review/time/info lookup on sites like rottentomatoes, yahoo movies, and imdb. #3 is everything else, misc browsing.

somewhere between boardgamegeek's design and the system's memory management, the system doesn't cut the mustard for using the site. the pdf viewer is as slow as molasses. this effectively kills reason #1, the most important thing to me. you can keep your extrapolations about mass returns/recalls of every known computing product to yourself, because it's not a valid point. what i am talking about is the product suiting MY OWN NEEDS, and nothing more.

i don't want a flybook, oqo, or laptop - i'm specifically avoiding a hard drive for battery/reliability reasons.

fwiw, it does look like the dell axim x51v is the best alternative. $400 for ~600mhz xscale with wifi/bluetooth, 256MB of rom (tons of it user-accessible), sd/cf, windows mobile 5.0. you can use a hack to get 'real' 640x480 landscape mode out of the vga display, and despite pocket ie apparently blowing snot rockets opera mobile is supposed to be released for the platform in a week or so. so i guess i'll wait and see on that.