I'm now in posesession of a lovely Bluetooth keyboard, and I can confirm that word processing on the 770 (and probably 800) is not only possible, but is actually enjoyable. There really isn't any difference between word processing on the Nokia and word processing on a laptop or desktop. It works very well.

All of which makes the lack of a good word processor all the more annoying

I've also been wrestling with Abiword (both the older version and the most recent version). I know a lot of work went into getting them up and running on Maemo but they're simply too buggy to be usable. They might be useful to other people who want to study the code, I guess, but they're of no practical use to end users.

The latest Abiword has a nasty gotcha that will hit virtually every user as soon as they use it. By default, the zoom level is 100%. But the text is too small to read on the screen. So the user adjusts the zoom level to a custom level. Except clicking in the custom zoom level box causes the app to crash out.

Other problems I noticed were that scrolling is slow and weird. It also looks like the autosave feature doesn't work, which again is a gotcha waiting to happen -- the user might know that Abisource is unstable but assume that switching on autosave will avoid file loss.

If Nokia is serious about mainstream popularity of the Nseries tablets, they've got to sort this out. They have to get a stable Word-compatible word processor out there as soon as possible. Otherwise a really useful aspect of the 770 or 800 is just being ignored.

Incidentally, yes, I typed this reply on my 770 and Bluetooth keyboard. It was no more difficult than tapping out a reply on my desktop computer.