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It doesn't come with a wired headset, nope. Mine certainly didn't anyway. Although, stereo bluetooth headsets are getting so cheap, why not get one anyway? The Motorola headsets I mentioned a few posts ago only costed me $35 and they work for stereo audio listening as well as telephone and they SOUND great (both to listen to, and the microphone for calls). In either case, remember that the US tablets can't make phone calls.

I am guessing the absence of the headset in yours may be due to the fact that voice calls have been disabled in the US. debernardis has already confirmed it comes with the Italian tabs. Presumably it would be the same in the UK. I will see if I can find out. Think I may look into the Motorola headset you mentioned though. Would expect that putting a blue tooth headset into your ear to take a call at home when the phone rings would be much quicker than having to plug in a headset.


Well, the question is a misdirected one. The reason question here is, does the N900 have a transfer contacts option? Or even an option to export your contacts to a vcf (vcard) file like Apple, Palm and every other device (including the N800) have done for over the past two decades? If so, then you could upload your contacts to http://contacts.google.com. Once they're in your Google Contacts list, they'll automagically appear on your Android device.

According to Google Contacts' "import" option:
We support importing CSV files from Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Eudora and some other apps. We also support importing vCard from apps like Apple Address Book.

At worst, you can add them via http://contacts.google.com manually--although I find it hard to believe such an open-source device as the N900 wouldn't allow you to export as vcf or csv or something.

Yes you can export as vCard with N900. However, the problem with this is that 1. I have never been able to get the N900 to successfully export all contact details. Just seems to export name, birthday, facebook page and any notes attached to the contact. Never seems to export phone numbers or email addresses. 2. It exports each contact as a separate vCard and google contacts for some reason only allows you to input a single vCard at a time which is quite annoying.

Yes and no. I believe there might be one using a Samsung flashing tool running in Windows. Since I don't have any Windows computers, this effectively means a resounding no for me. ...yet. Clockwork Mod is working on (and already has a beta version out) their rescue boot tool, which I already use on my Motorola Droid. When you reboot the device you can hold down a combination of keys to get to what might seem like a sort of grub menu that kicks in before Linux loads. From that menu, you can do a bunch of stuff, including running a compiled-in tool called nandroid which lets you save or load a state image of the device as a backup from the SD card. With that tool, no matter HOW bad you f*** things up, you can restore your system bit-for-bit back to its previous state right from a tool that runs effectively at what might be something of a BIOS level before the OS loads. Clockwork Mod ALSO gives you the benefit of applying downloaded ROMs right from the menu, too. So, no need to connect the tab or handset to a desktop to do all of this, like you've been used to doing with the N900. The Android platform is truly far more independent of the need for a desktop computer than Nokia's ever was.

Still, this Clockwork Mod with nandroid is a work in progress as far as the Tab is concerned. So right now the answer is still sort of "no", unless you have Windows and get the Samsung tool and get the Samsung image from the XDA developers site. Not worth it, in my opinion. I'll wait for Clockwork Mod with nandroid, myself.

Despite that, I've still rooted my Tab but I'm very careful with what I do (I don't apply any customizations, as few as they are, for example). If you simply USE your Android device and use just Market apps, near as I can tell there's virtually no way for it to become corrupt enough to need a firmware flash and inconceivable to imagine bricking it.

That is somewhat reassuring. I have only ever used Windows PCs so seems I should not have to much difficulty restoring the Tab if I mess it up. If I go for it I would probably just stick to trying out tons of apps and do much less customising. With the N900 there are virtually no apps so if you want to have fun with the device you are basically left with nothing to do other than customise. However, in case I decide to mess around could you tell me some of the benefits of rooting the Tab.