As a proud owner of the Nokia N800, I love it, but I just saw the new announced Ipod touch , and Im very very enticed by it. For just about everything the Nokia can do, I can do on the iPod touch , I believe. I imagine because its built on a version of of OSX in the future more and more applications will be able to run native on it. Not sure if it has ebook reader but I imagine it will. Just wondering what other people think, and if this could be a good replacement.

The closed-source approach and reliability of the iPod Touch will make it hugely popular, providing many of the functions of the N800 in Apple's pure design context, including music and video playback and wifi web-browsing, plus the new iTunes Wi-Fi store. It apparently does not have Bluetooth, so an external keyboard is a no-go and file transfers will be more limited, presumably. I believe there will be no speakers or microphone or camera on the iPod Touch, so clearly no VOIP phone function or video chat. EBook reading? Unknown, as you said. There's definitely enough room for the N800 and its next-generation successors to carry the open-source cause forward in the mobile tablet space, in my opinion. But there's no doubt this announcement must have had a seismic effect on the N-Series team at Nokia.

I agree the no bluetooth sort of kills the deal for me. I can easily hook up my N800 to my phone, and have mobile internet access anywhere. But the Nokia with SD cards just doesn't cut it for me anymore. I need tweezers to pull out the cards. Although I haven't tried SDHC cards yet, and they are still expensive for larger capacity.

Nokia have the infrastructure (music store) to compete with the iPod but do they have the design, UI and software skills? The iPod/iPhone Look & Feel and usability blows the Tablets out of the water - Nokia need to step up their game here in order to compete.

The iPod Touch is thinner, lighter, cheaper ($399 for 16GB model), better looking (and probably easier to use) and with better battery life (22 hours audio/5 hours video) than the N800 - the only thing it lacks in comparison to the Nokia Tablets is an open development model (the other features - camera, voip, bluetooth are probably intentional to differentiate it from the iPhone).

SDHC cards are getting cheap. I just bought two Patriot 8GB cards for 74.99 each. Not bad at all, and there you have your 16GB that the new touch has.

But it's just cost you $150 more to add 16GB of memory. Nobody would dispute that memory cards can be bought for the N800, but it's an additional expense which isn't necessary with the iPod Touch. If your primary interests are media playing with occasional web browsing the iPod Touch is by far the better option as media is easier to manage (sync with itunes), use (designed for dummies), has a superior UI and is significantly cheaper than the N800.

I love my N800... but Nokia need to get serious with this product category, or get out entirely. I sense that Apple are at least 2 steps ahead of Nokia every time.

Ouch. This thing is sweet. If I didn't buy my iPhone already (ouch $399 now) I would have dumped my N800 to buy the 16gb version.

very interesting!

buit for me, I think I'll stick with my n800 and maybe look into replacing my aging ipod with the 160GB version pretty soon!!

then maybe in a year or so wait til there's an iphonepod 200GB and a N1000 and make another decision

No third party applications ... not yet ... so not for me.

I wonder when Nokia will cut the price on the N800.
Apple has put them in a position were the N800 will collect dust on the selves if Nokia does not move fast!

Now we will see if Nokia is going to "put up or shut up" when it comes to the internet tablet . Whatever happens we as users/customers will be winners....let the games begin.
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