Yeah i agree that the n8x0 are a little slow... But remember that the hardware is very old compared to the itouch. so wait for the next tablet. It is going to kickass

Sorry to hear about erminig problems, I do know that other users have had problems (and I have had minor ones at times like events not syncing properly) but thankfully no major ones. It's not the perfect solution but it works decently.

The last time my SD card got corrupted and I had to RMA it (I still haven't figured out how to do a graceful power off when it freezes and the buttons and on screen are frozen) I was about to trade in everything for an iPhone since I was really irked.

But I figure, it'd cost me more in the long run, I really don't want to switch networks (I'm on Sprint on my family's plan) and the iPod touch didn't offer what I wanted at the time (speakers, a microphone jack, etc..).

So I'm waiting to see what Nokia has to offer, and what Android will offer once it reaches greater market penetration. If both can't do what I want then I'll have to get an iPod touch or maybe an unlocked iPhone if it would work on Sprint (probably not) and jailbreak it.

We HAVE isilo!!!
http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/
i'm using it. wanna see screenshot???

Yes, insert a screen shot for us. (Technically. Garnet O.S. has iSilo, wish our O.S. had it)

The tablet should have more processing power (able to power a nice, user-friendly, smooth GUI... infact, Nokia should just employ the Canola team!), and a more responsive screen, possibly even haptic, although that would mean sacrificing the stylus which I don't know if I'm prepared to do. Anyway, with that, it would easily beat Apple's touchscreen marvels.

I've used an iPod Touch. It is cool if you need only multimedia and some games.

But Maemo beats it with (and I'm talking about end user characteristics only, things that normal people use and are used to, I'm not including the geeky stuff):

Videochat
Bittorrent
Expandable memory slots
Copy-paste text and images
Browser with flash and java
Browser password storing
Browse the device via bluetooth
Use any song as an alarm
True RSS reader
Video recording
A way to make apps wake up the device in the background
Stream live video (I'm not sure 100% you can't do it in an iPod, but almost sure you cannot play some formats)

All of these work on Maemo. Some might not be the greatest you have seen, but they work. And you cannot do them in an iPod.

I'm not saying the iPod Touch sucks, but it is more for the casual internet and multimedia user. The iPod is made as an entertainment gaget. The N800 and N810 are tools.

Not until I can use my 150MB iSilo document, we don't. If they get busy and add VFS support a lot of these other issues will fade, since we can just use the device as a Palm+.

I should mention the iPhone/iPod Touch iSilo works really well, it's super fast, plus has built in networking, so you can copy stuff to it via WebDAV. If the fonts were a little nicer it would be the best ebook reader I've ever seen.

Good points on most, except...

Videochat - which fails in the really important part... device to desktop.
Java - I wish... This *kinda* works, but not well enough to sell someone on it, or develop for. I'd love to see FreeMind or Jarnal working...

I've heard quite a few calling the Touch a toy because of its media centric/games focus, but I'd personally feel more on top of my schedule with one of those hosting my data. The n800 seems like more of a (geeky) toy to me. Sure I can hack Perl on it, but I can't keep my schedule in sync...

I think most of the things yeagaoo can be done by installing application (I think for one of them.. video recording?) and the rest can be done by jailbreaking.

Videochat from tablet to pc works with gizmo or with the default sip and x-lite on the pc (I use the latter, and have used the first eventually)

Bout java you are right, I meant javascipt as in banking websites.

And again, you're right on the functionality: depends on what you need, what you should get.