Just curious but if you knew then what you do now which would you have purchased ?

I still bought a nit. I bought one a long time after and I knew the restrictions.

Saying that, I do want to buy a smartphone to compliment the N800 (S60/WinMO)

I'm assuming that "nobody has yet to make MY ideal device" in fact means "somebody has yet to make MY ideal device"?

Yeh, sorry that is what I meant, is there a way to edit the poll or would I have to totally remake it ?

I'll say YES to the ideal device. The N800 has been a great "fit" for me. Thanks to this forum, I knew what it would and would not do going in. It's been the best $225 I've ever spent just for the mobility it has allowed. Plus, it plays my tunes, does Rhapsody and Skype. I work from home and could always carry the laptop out with me. But now, the NIT has very much lightened my load.

I think you ought to get rid of the Ideal Device choice altogether. I'm *very* glad I got the NIT, but nonetheless nobody has made my *ideal* device. Including that choice is like including a choice as to whether you like chocolate -- you can be glad you got a NIT or wish you got an iPhone instead *and* still like chocolate (and still believe nobody has made your ideal device).

The n800 has probably been the closest to what I was looking for in a portable device. My other considering was the iPhone/iTouch but the idea of having to keep jailbreaking it with every firmware update wasn't appealing. (But the iStuff did win on media [well they lost points for iTunes for me since I hate iTunes]). Plus for what I wanted it to do, the n800 already had most of it to begin with (and the plus of using SD cards which when I buy bigger ones I can always transfer to other devices).

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The NIT is SOOoooo close to my ideal device. The closest would be the HTC advantage, and if Nokia made something close to that (running Maemo, of course), I'd be there in an instant.

I've come close to getting an N800 or N810 so many times, but I just can't pull the trigger on another device that doesn't have a SIM slot. An IT or pmp that isn't also a phone just ain't an option. I don't care for cellular data enough to pay for it, but I need to have a cellphone far more than I need a tablet or pmp.

An unlocked iPhone would be close enough to my ideal device that I could readily settle for that, but I'm secretly hoping Nokia will drop some form of Eseries phone that blends the features & form factor of the N8xx series with, say, the E90. I suspect that such a device would be more than ideal for most folks here, as well as most folks in the S60 demographic.

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My N800 is very close to being what I want it to be.

Negatives: Not quite a pure enough Linux environment. I would be happier with less hacks against the libraries so that running my own stuff would be easier while still allowing Hildon apps to run.

Ideally, I would put fvwm back on but because of changes to gtk2 make this a frustrating experience. If I put a pure gtk2 on, I'm guessing the Hildonized apps will not run (haven't tried it). If I just change the window manager I can still run Hildon stuff and regular X stuff, but there are some strange behaviors that make it impossible to use smoothly.

OS 2008 is miles ahead of 2007 so I look forward to the next version. Perhaps some more interface work to allow more consistency and finger use.

My N800 is always on and used regularly throughout the day but not in all the ways I would like to use it. It is close but not quite what I was expecting from a Linux device.

Nobody has made my device either, but when I finally sat down and looked at the options the NIT was the best of all of the alternatives at this time.