It's looking more probable by the day that the Samsung Mondi might take the place of my Nokia N810. This is my first time posting here so I should give a brief history of my usages before hand. I use a Nokia N810, Treo 800w, and a 2nd generation Ipod touch. The Treo is my main phone, the ipod touch is really fun device to have for games and itunes synchronization, and the N810 is my online life device. I find much of the software in the N810 very useful and fun. What can I say about the N810 that hasn't been said before, the device is truly a pocketable computer that would let you do "almost" anything you could think of. The almost comes from two points: hardware and software.
The hardware needs a faster processor to cope and beat the competition. If Nokia is serious about their top of the line devices, calling them pocket computers, then they should go back on being the innovators that they were with the release of the Nokia 770. I don't need a Pentium 1.0 ghz processor but something that would allow us to use the internet as it stands now. Streaming video, radio, and fast multi-tasking are a must for some people. I want to be able to open pandora in the background and read my email, and play some games.
I find that support for microsoft's "evil" office, video skype integration, and the MIFI trick a must for me. i had tried open office, abiword, and excel programs and it doesn't quiet cut it. The camera doesn't support skype, despite all the pleadings that people have made to Nokia. and I seem to be carrying my laptop more than before, so a MIFI would be a really good solution.

This is sad because I'm very happy with my Nokia N810 the limitation are becoming quiet obvious. Anyhow if anyone is interested they should read the review of PCMag about the Mondi http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2350887,00.asp and the one that should be post on pocketables soon. I think the N810 is a great design with really good support by developers (not including nokia here) yet it needs to evolve fast. I don't know what is wrong with Nokia but if they are serious about transforming pocketable devices into computers, they need to play catch up now!!!! Depending on further reviews I would decide to wait for the next Nokia device or jump to the Samsung Mondi.

Valid points. Though this seems closer to a UPMC that a MID/IT.
PCmag's reputation is worthless and can cited in any of their reviews. For example,

Wait for user reviews and keep in mind that plenty of "MID"s are going to released in the coming months running Android, Linux and even WinMo so I'm sure you will find something you like better than N810 (or any of the devices you've listed).

As explained many, many times, that's in Skype's court.

But enjoy your Mondi!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/s...thers-cousins/ smaller than I thought.

I still think there was a clear assumption/implication in the early days of the N800 that video via Skype was going to become available, and I doubt that anyone can come up with a link from early 2007 that says

"Repeat, we have nothing to do with whether Skype ever supports video on the N800! We cannot control that!"

For one thing, as I have said before, the video support was said to be in "beta". I have never seen a major company abandon something that was in beta. Beta means "we haven't perfected this, but we will." It does NOT mean, "well, we're trying this out, but we may abandon it soon." (I would be grateful if someone would list a few major companies that have abandoned similar projects that they had claimed to be in beta.)

If someone can come up with a link that specifically says that Nokia specifically denied responsibility for the Skype video as I quoted above, i would appreciate seeing it! Otherwise, Nokia bears some of the responsiblity, probably most of the responsibility, for allowing that impression to persist.

If someone CAN come up with such a link, I humbly apologize in advance and will stop saying this.

That said, video support on Skype/Linux-x86 can be pretty screwy at times too. At my work we have to use v4lcompat and such a little too much for our own good. Did anyone check if it's possible to use API bindings in Skype to get our way btw?

Can YOU provide the link that is the basis for that assumption/implication ? 'Their fault because it ships with' is silly. Dell is not responsible for MS bugs even though they ship with Windows, Asus is not responsible for Firefox bugs even though they ship it on their eee-s. So, how does Skype become Nokia's liability ? As a linux user, I'm kind of used to being treated like dirt by Skype so Skype issues on the NITs don't surprise me the least bit.

It's been made clear for quite some time that the app was Skype's.

According to the EULA they are, as is any manufacturer that supplies an OEM version of windows.

I thought the Skype port was solicited via Nokia?