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2007-10-13 , 14:32
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I defer to iBall's comment in another thread. Those IT professionals you lunch with may give the N800 a hard time at the table, but if they had to select a device to actually help them with their work, the iPhone won't be it.
How can the N800 help with most people's work, though? There's no decent cross-solution VPN support, so I can't get access to my work email. There's no built-in or reasonably feature complete and reliable calendar with easy to configure synchronisation (I've had Outlook synchronising with GPE without touching the command line, but it's beyond the wit of your average user), there's no ..., there's no....

As you yourself have pointed out, this is an N-series device, not an E-series. So it's not aimed at business users. Which means (not disparingly) it's a toy. No-one *needs* a NIT. No-one will make more money by having a NIT. The same with an iPhone or an iPod Touch (look how similar they are ;-))

They are all devices which should be a pleasure to use, because they're adults' toys. That's fine. I like gadgets.

I like *playing* with the open nature of the NIT - whether on the PC side or on the device itself. I'd like *using* an iPhone or an iPod Touch as a media player.

I say that as an IT professional who uses his N800 in a work environment quite often. The iPhone flat cannot do nor will the current incarnation ever be able to do what I'm needing.
No, but I suspect you're the minority: not many people will be able to use the N800 as something productive in their work environment either.

Cheers,

Andrew
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