get honest... like Psion did, maybe ? :-)

The first Series5 - costing about thrice as much as a 770, ten years ago - had a paint coating that started to peel after a few weeks - but you could finish the job with your nails during meetings and afterwards it looked better than new ; a crack that appeared on most units on the hinge between body and screen - but that never caused real problems if you were careful, like probably the one on the 770 ; and a design problem in the ribbon cable between motherboard and LCD screen that caused 99% of units to end up unusable for lack of display, although all components were functioning perfectly except for a broken milimeter-wide stretch of copper.

Two years later, Psion came out with the twice-the-power, twice-the-memory-for-the-same-price Series 5mx. And guess what ? The paint problem was gone. But the hinge crack was still there, and although the screen ribbon cable was a new design, it still broke in the exact same way after 2-3 years of opening and closing the clamshell. And it still cost anywhere between 90 and 170 euro to fix.

They just sold the hotcakes, took the money and ran. And decided they weren't in the PDA business anymore after all.

We'll see if the finns are any better than the brits :-)