I'm actually not upset about my purchase, believe it or not. But yes, there are things I would change if I were in charge. I only rant like this when something is just a couple inches short of true greatness. If I'm ranting about it, you know you're pretty close to something REALLY great.

For the most part, I like my N800 and it does a number of things quite well. I recently checked out a state-of-the-art Windows Mobile competitor (the HTC Advantage) and honestly the N800 runs rings around it, as long as you don't need PIM or MS Office functionality.

However, despite that, the N800 is not something I could unreservedly recommend to a friend or non-technical person at this time, for the reasons I keep mentioning.

My frustration stems from what I perceive as obvious and easily solved problems repeatedly overlooked by Nokia in favor of pie-in-the-sky like VoIP and WiMAX. I won't argue that those are not important things, and that someday, maybe 2 years from now, they'll be a big deal to more than 5% of the population, but right now they just don't have critical mass, and meanwhile REALLY IMPORTANT CONSUMER INTERNET THINGS that everyone uses (email client!) are languishing or (AIM) not included with the device at all. It just seems to me like priorities are out of whack.

I guess it would be far more effective for me to send this feedback to Nokia than keep yelling into the black hole, so I guess I will go do that now.

I apologize for any perceived snarkiness. I thought I was being fairly objective.