so, I got the fiasco with letstalk straightened out (and i'll never deal with them again).

some thoughts:

- I don't know why people complain about the typing rooom along the top row. I have anything but dainty thumbs, but I have plenty of room.

- I have more trouble with the feel of the keyboard. the keys are too stiff and dont give much taactile ssense of having been pressed.. this leads to double-struck letters and missed letters... some of which i catch, slowing down my effective typing speed.. some of which i dont, lowering my accuracy. I think my samsung sch-r410 has a good design for a thumb keyboard that handles this well.

- the corners of the escape and home buttoons like to catch under the edge of thee face plate.

- better finger friendly interface than os2007, but still not good enough. thus, the device is almost useless closed (ie. as a tablet). the dpad really does need to be alwways aavailable, not just when open.

- can't find simple lauuncher for chinook

- same with the load/clock/command applet

- wish there was a way to tell rss reader to open urls in a new window, instead of using my existing windows.

- rather annoyed that I have to upgrade via flashing still. we were supposed to be done with that for chinook.

otherwise, i like it. nice to be able to thumb type and see the app at the same time.

oh, and waiting for the tasks application too.

Guess you missed the Sticky thread at the top of the N810 forum?
The itT Nokia N810 First Impressions Thread

No, no we weren't.

Quoted for posterity.

nope. not at all. i'm pretty sure i've even posted in it in the past.

i'm very sure i read that on these very forums. that we'd be able to do os updates via directly downloaded packages, using the next major os upgrade (as stated in september/october).

almost forgot... the kickstand sticks a little at the device's corner.

OK, my mistake. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

You may have read it, but they were very wrong. This is, and always has been, slated for Diablo.

And even then, this is an initial version (talk about managing expectations). The full-blown thing is expected by Elephanta: so it could be earlier if it turns out easier than expected.

It's a lot easier to share a large .bin file when repository.maemo.org is broken, compared with a whole repository of brokenness.

Without the infrastructure in-place (i.e. the shambles we've got now), per-package upgrades would've meant no OS2008 v2.2007.50-2 upgrades for anyone.