I've just ordered an N800, now they've fallen in price, and have been using a 770 up until now. It's not that I'm cheap. I just don't like spending a lot of money on a gadget that can be easily stolen

The problems I'm hoping will be fixed are performance and stability. It looks like I'll largely be skipping OS2007 and going straight to OS2008 in November.

Performance isn't just related to the browser. For example, the text editor slows down when the current paragraph gets over a few lines long.

All this reminds you that the 770 really was a prototype for better things to come later on. It's beautiful in its own way but Nokia listened hard and included most of the improvements in the 800.

IMHO, with the speed boost introduced with OS2008, the tablets will be almost perfect, with the only outstanding issue being the slim software library outside of geek tools (Kismet is all well and good but where's the Powerpoint viewer?).

Now that Hildon has been pushed upstream into the GTK development, it should be easier to port apps to OS2008. So this last outstanding issue should also be fixed. Plus, Java is coming of age on the mobile platform. It's all good! Never a more exciting time to own a Nokia Internet tablet.

But the 770 is definitely something of a fossil, and should be treated as such. Yet don't forget -- lots of people around the world still use abacuses, and swear by them...