I feel your pain earl00, and if you would of asked me just a few months ago I would of said the same thing (and I probably did) now comes the "but" after using the IT for nearly a year now I can certainly see the reasons for a new IT. I, like you and many others either don't necessarily have the "expendable" cash to be able to stay on the bleeding edge, but weather we admit it or not the IT/UMPC market is exactly that. You brought up the Apple comparison, and thats always a tough comparison, as is most apple to oranges comparisons, it seems apple brings out "updated" devices about every 3-6 months and as I and others have pointed out even when the next IT is available our 770s and 800s by no means will become un-usable or obsolete, (as is with most apple devices) they just won't have the same usability or functions as the new one. Being on the bleeding edge certainly has it's ups and downs I've wanted an inexpensive tablet/UMPC/hand held device for years but haven't had the cash for such a device until the Nokia IT came about (and I became aware of). Is this device perfect or the end all of HH devices well that just depends on what you are expecting out of the device when you bought it. I think the longer you have and use this device you "want and wish" it did more, or wish that it did certain things better, and this comes back to why or what reasons you bought the device in the first place. I personally do not have an ipod/PMP, PDA, smartphone or a laptop so the IT for me fills in a huge gap and for the money I don't see how you could go wrong. Do I think it did certain things better like playing imbedded media within a webpage, playing of all/"other" forms of media files within a single or built-in player, viewing or compatibilty of certain web pages, and so on and so on etc. yeh but this and other things all come back to why you bought it what you're expectations were going into it. What Nokia has developed and mfg. with this device and then with what 3rd party's have done with it are quite amazing, and the support from Nokia to those 3rd party's is amazing as well given the time they brought out this device could it be better or faster that'll always be up for debate and you have to consider many apps and software for this device were never thought of or even considered by Nokia themselves how could they, and at the very least Nokia isn't out there suing every one in sight for trying to do things with the IT it never thought of or even thought possible. So is this device perfect or has Nokia's support been perfect no but it's surely trying and at least listening to their users and thats more then I can say of most other dev's and mfg's out there. Just look at the evolution of software and hardware from the 770, 800 and the purposed next IT, all within what 2 years or so.