This is what bothers me about Nokia's 1.5 year product cycle.

I have been looking at the N800 since around April 2007 and have been waiting for my end of year vacation payout (free money) to buy. It sounds great - but now here is the next one. I've heard the horror stories of the 770 and I dont want a paperweight.

Why should I buy the N800 and not wait for this next incarnation?

(please be specific if you are going to answer the question, having been a salesman for computer products, Ive been through all of the "if you wait for the next product ....")

Here is what I think my gripes with the N800 are going to be:

1. Slow processor. It may be built for web apps - but given the community uproar about it's potential - it seems to be just a step shy of crossing that bridge to evolved PDA like status.

2. Real photo management software that will work with my WinXP home PC and Flickr. My #1 goal for the N800 is to take it with me into the field and shoot photography. I plan to swap my SD card from my digital camera and use the N800's (acclaimed) screen to view my results. When re-entering a wifi hotspot I plan to upload my acceptable results to Flickr - and wipe my SD card to refill it. (Question for current N800 owners: if you use Mozilla - have you tried fotofox? Does it work on the N800?)

The one thing I really like about the N800 is of course, the Linux side. While I've never been a Debian user - I still use a fedora distro and long ago I used a less cluttered distro but I forget the name. That said .. am I reading too much into the Linux side? Does it really *matter* to me that it's linux compatible? Because - just how many Linux apps will I use on the device anyway? Probably a music app, maybe a (few) photo apps if I can find them, certainly not Gimp, probably a video player, maybe Skype... once.. or twice.

Sorry for the rambling post - this has just kind of turned out to be a bump in the road for my N800 dream :P