- Viewing the screen in daylight, or even indoors near a light sourcce. It's near impossible. Hopefully this will be fixed in the N810. The Zaurus line has the best indoor/outdoor screen I've seen in a portable device. It's transflective screen cast no obstructive reflections even in direct sunlight, and the screen could achive a large brightness range. I hope the N810 can match it.

- The sound quality is very poor. I can hear constant white noise in the background. I know it's not a dedicated mp3 player, but it should have better sound quality.

- Rhapsody program has many bugs.

- Handwritting recognition is horrible, but I perfer to type anyway.

- Opera and MicroB are slow and scrolling is a pain. I guess it is just the 330mhz 128mb ram combo talking there.

- No PIM. It isn't advertised as a PDA but a PIM suite will not kill anyone at Nokia.

- Screen is recessed, making it harder to clean. It would be much better if the screen was flush with the body.

- Not fully open source. Binary blobs and closed source drivers make it harder for developers. The Angstrom project is working on a complete maemo replacement for the N800, but I guess they can only get so far because of the closed wifi, battery, etc, drivers. Maemo is pretty good, but alternatives would be nice.

- Built in IM and email client leaves much to be desired. Gmail IMAP does not work, and I cannot connect to AIM using the jabber protocol.

- The battery life fails to refresh sometimes, stating I have a full or near full battery remaining, when I actually have little/near empty.


Pretty good device overall. Overall best portable i've had.