In my love / hate relationship with my N800, I have to say that last week I really loved it. I had to travel to Brazil and took my treo phone with me with every assurance from Verizon that it would work fine....Nope. Then I also found out that my plan would have charged $2.00 per min. When I got to the hotel, I connected to the wifi with my N800 and turned on SKYPE. Crystal clear 45min call to my wife every day cost $0.90. It was a life saver. I could check my cell phone voice mail, call the plant, call customers...it was great. I also was able to use my Holux GPS and find my way around the city of Sao Paulo.

Indeed. I have had the same experience on various trips since I owned a 770... Enjoy!

They are teriffic travel companions!

They are great travel companion. The best I have ever come across in my whole life.

Two big limitations though: battery and wifi.

I think I solved the battery problems, use battery extender.
wifi is difficult to get by. In Hongkong, I bought a $25/month plan and was very happy about it. But there is NO such thing/such price in china and my cell treo650, of course, failed to work in China. I will be back to china once a year still not be able to come up with a plan.

Totally agree, the tablet is probably the best travel companion. And with my WorldTV and VCURLs72, I can even watch basketball anywhere I want to. thanks Nokia,

bun

I used my 770 last September when I was vacationing in Italy to follow the Phillies chasing the Mets during the last two weeks of the season. Internet access while traveling is my primary use for the thing. When Nokia feels the tablets are ready for prime time, this is definitely a use that should be stressed in their marketing.

No kidding, Nokia should stress that. In HK, they do not broadcast NCAA college basketball, but I was able to catch some clips here and there from sport news channel. With wifi and battery, the tablet is definitely better than wiskey and woman/man/both . Yes, I hereby grant Nokia to use this post for marketting purpose.

bun

we have a combined VOIP and analogue telephone (not skype) at home - a Siemens S685ip, and I was able to phone my wife and son regularly for free during a recent vacation to the USA. It was cool to ring wife from Phoenix airport whilst waiting to board to confirm my flight schedule - they have free wifi at that airport!

I was also able to keep up with news, using the rss reader. And sometimes I'd want to look up phone numbers and schedules of cinema/movie theatres.

I was able to remain in contact with work to receive critical emails (I have a separate pop3 account dedicated to the tablet, it's on a hosted (free) gmail account so I can also webmail it).

On a previous long road trip with wife and son, my son was able to watch a movie I'd ripped from DVD, which alleviated the boredom.

Yup the tablet is a great travelling companion.

And don't forget the built-in FM radio. When I wait in airport terminals and don't want to pay $10 for internet access, it gives me free entertainments and news.

That is an excellent point. I mostly use it for 'elevator' music though .


bun

What about spare batteries? At least, on the tablets, you can exchange the batteries. It's not like on the iPods and iPhone.


One of the Chinese telcos has a wifi network. You buy a prepay card for it. Unfortunately, it does not work with the browser in os2008 (can't pass the authentification page), but that may change with the next version. Many tourist hotels have wifi, sometimes free. Some trendy cafes also have free wifi. Sometimes, you will even find free wifi in busy commercial streets. I did not have any problems to stay connected in China.

On the other hand, I do not think that China has (yet) a 3G network, so a cell phone connection would be slow. Roaming charges are high. My (European) phone worked, but I did not use it.