Originally Posted by GeraldKo

They're both great. I have an N800. My girlfriend had an N800 but we sold it and got her a Touch. (Since seeing Tear, she's said she would have kept the N800; I didn't know that the slow browsing was her issue. In fact, she said she'd have kept it once she saw a tweaked MicroB, which sped it up quite a bit.)

I'm surprised to hear you can get the Touch for as little as the N800.

If you have much music/videos, you're better off with the N800 because of the expandable memory.

The "feel" of using the Touch is better, i.e., smoother and more intuitive, and just plain fun.

But I prefer the N800. I like the bigger format and the higher pixel density. I love it for reading in FBReader. For me the Touch is a bit too small for reading and I miss the larger format on the web. But even with Tear, I think it's somehow easier to get around on the Touch Safari. OTOH, it seems that you can't get Safari to display a larger font and still fit to the screen width -- something that matters more as one's eyesight deteriorates.

If portability matters, the Touch sure is a lot smaller. As for battery, I'd say it's not a big advantage of the Tablet since either can be augmented with an external power pack.

I concur about the quality of the speakers -- my N800's speakers are much better than my Thinkpad's.

I think the Touch doesn't do attachments, at least not something like a Word doc, so if that's important you want the N800.

I'm happy dicking around to improve the N800 experience, even though I don't use Linux on the desktop. If you really prefer not putting in the energy, the Touch may be a better choice.

I like my N800 more than any other electronic device I've ever had. I don't know why but I just love the thing.

I don't see how you go wrong with either.

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt

Just to add:

... For video files gmplayer is king: it'll play most 700mb DVD rips without a problem (slight stuttering during fast motion scenes) at full quality....
Missus Corrupt

Originally Posted by GeraldKo

OTOH, it seems that you can't get Safari to display a larger font and still fit to the screen width -- something that matters more as one's eyesight deteriorates.
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I like my N800 more than any other electronic device I've ever had. I don't know why but I just love the thing.

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

The iPod touch (and iPhone) can also do background apps, but it requires jailbreaking it and installing backgrounder. Which is about as buggy as some programs in extras-deval here :P.

Edit: Buggy as in the program backgrounder is buggy. Not the jailbreaking process. Jailbreaking is about as smooth as cloning a partition to SD around here.