I have owned a Palm Tungsten for 4 years or so, the case is falling to bits, the second battery is on it's last legs and the screen is well scuffed.

The included software for browsing and reading docs is fine, the PIM is excellent.

I have a 2GB sd card with some music, it gets probably 2-3 hours use daily, I can SMS and control my Mythtv box with it over BT - it's great.

I had been looking at the N800 for about 6 months, delaying a purchase cos it seemed too expensive compared with replacing it with a Palm TX.

Eventually when Expansys started selling off N770 at £80 I took the plunge.

I have to say that the comparison with the Palm Tungsten is unfair, Palm's have been around for a log time so there is far more sw available.

I do like the way you ( sorry I must not speak for YOU ) I am long sighted, so being able to quickly resize text is great. What else is there ?

There are some pretty poor design features on the N770, such as :-

having the wire connectors on the long edge, so I cannot plug in my headphones and pop N770 in my pocket

no 5v out in/out on the usb port

no hot sync

kludgy Opera web browser - no where near as easy to use as the Palm one

Poor battery life if you forget to switch off Bluetooth and Wifi

Whilst Skype would be "nice", where would I use it ? not in my office - we like our network security -I can make free calls anyway, not on the train, not in my car, yep I could use it in my house, but I have 2 PCs there so why should I ?

So I would sum up and say that I feel I got a good deal at £80, but is the N800 at £250 a good piece of kit - not at the moment. Give me a decent PIM with syncing capability,a cut down version of OpenOffice and I would say we have a class leading device