For the longest time after I got my 770, I kept justifying (more jokingly) it to myself. Here are some of the actual scenarios that ended with me saying "I just justified buying this thing, cool!"

- My friend's mom is nearly blind. She's never seen the stars, so my friend decided to pull over on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere on the way to Ottawa and set up her camera equipment to take long exposure pics of the stars so she could see the photographs. It was minus 30 and DARK. The 770 was a perfect flashlight for her to see while she screwed around with the camera equipment.

- My sister came to pick me up to drive up to our parents place and she had a flat tire. No way were we driving an hour up the highway, so from the parking lot of my building, I connected to my access point, found a nearby garage that was open on Sunday, got the phone number, she called and we went there and got a replacement inside of 30 mins and made to to my parents' place on time.

- Outside of a supermarket, my GF and I decided we wanted to make indian food for dinner. I looked up a few recipes and made a shopping list on the spot for stuff we needed.

- I was testing our municipal wifi out (when it was free for a trial period) and was on gtalk with my friend while I was sitting on Queen St downtown (major Toronto street). Who happens to walk by but his GF (he lived 6 hrs away at the time) so they got to chat for free coutesy of the 770 and a completely random encounter.

You really don't know you need it until you do. That's the catch22. Eventually, they'll become an every day thing. Just like the cell phone. Just like the PDA. We'll see feature creep across the three as companies try to find the right balance, but I fully applaud Nokia for keeping things separate right now.

I'm amazed at people's learned helplessness. "So now I've got a THIRD device to carry around?" Eeeeh.... correct me if I'm wrong schmecky, but your phone has a calendar and contact list does it not? What's the PDA for? (Hint: Don't name any functions the internet tablet carries out or I'll chew you a new one.)

hugs & kisses,
Hedge.