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So is the target market for the N800 "IT Pros" who can/will use their devices at work? Wow, that's a _tiny_ market we're aiming for!

And what makes it even smaller is that most organisations - if they care anything about security - don't let WiFi networks any where near their internal corporate LAN, rendering the N800 useless for "IT Pro" work IMHO. Where I work, in the financial industry, my employer even goes so far as to actually jam the 2.4GHz WiFi radio spectrum within the premises preventing access to the numerous external WiFi hotspots located just yards from where I sit!

It's all very well saying IT Pros will use the N800 professionally (which is a laugh when you consider that Kismet - a potentially "Professional" piece of software for all sorts of industries - doesn't work properly because of faults in Nokia closed source firmware), however in my experience WiFi access to corporate networks is a very rare (and monumentally misguided) thing indeed.

The only time I use WiFi on my N800 is at home, and I use BT/3G "on the road" (but having just discovered that I've got a £30 charge coming my way from O2 for only a few days 3G/GPRS access, I need to find another network provider that doesn't gouge me just for accessing my webmail!!!)

Last edited by Milhouse; 2007-10-13 at 17:57.