Errr - yes? Because I'm travelling a lot, and even my <9" netbook was a pain to use in crammed trains?

I was looking for something to get my netbook online during hotel evenings and something to write eMail while waiting for my train.

In addition to that I got a video player to entertain me during long travels, an office application I could work with everywhere, a gaming console that didn't force me carry a bag with my dozens of cartridges, a barcode scanner to compare prizes while shopping, a connection to access the files on my home server at any time and from anywhere, a music player with all the functionality I'm used to from my desktop (and one where uploading and rearranging files is mere child's play), my very personal coding platform in my pocket, a VCN client to fix up my parent's computer while dining thousands of miles away... and a lot of other things that I never even dared dream of.

If I went back in time 5 years and told myself about it, I would have laughed at myself and send me back to whatever insane asylum I might have broken out of.

A couple of times, sure. And it worked like a charm.

That's pretty amazing for the fact that I didn't buy a phone but an internet tablet, isn't it?

And you shouldn't have, either, because it has ALWAYS been marketed as an internet tablet, and the fact that the more useless phone stuff (like MMS - because it's a good idea to send an expensive, restrictive MMS instead of an eMail ) has been known ever since the first previews.

I can sympathise with everyone who wanted a smartphone/an iPhone surrogate and bought the N900 instead, because from time to time everyone of us is bound to buy something without checking first. It's a natural impulse, especially when it comes to technology.

But stop telling me that what I got is not what I wanted, because in this case I DID do my research and got my dreams fulfilled when it arrived.