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Having heaped praise on the N800, just to speak up for my favorite toy, I have to be honest and also describe some of its most irritating shortcomings:
First the built-in camera which is an *absolute piece of garbage*, there is just no other way to put it - useless. Second, my built-in mic soon stopped working. Not that it was ever that great, but it would have been useful for VOIP.
It is sad to see Nokia essentially dumping Maemo and Meego and going down the Windoze road. If they think that this is what will help them beat back the Android based devices, they are SO wrong...
I guess that with Maemo and Meego pretty much dead, Android is the way to go. But I wish they made an ebook reader and tablet which would simply run on Ubuntu, with a deb -based package manager and the Unity desktop. Why reinvent the wheel?! All it would take to install patches and updates would be a GUI fronted for 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". No more using SD cards, not more firmware vs applications issues when upgrading - it really would make life easy and yet as far as I know, Android wants to keep its fork separate from the rest of the GNU/Linux world. Too bad.
But I hear so much good stuff about Android that I really look forward to my soon-to-be-delivered PocketBook 701 IQ.
As for e-ink, I have to say that two things bother me about that: the flicker when changing pages and the fact that I cannot read it at night (which is when I do a lot of my reading). I wish somebody did an e-ink device with zero flicker when changing pages AND with a switch to add a back-light when needed. But I am sure this is in the making somewhere :-)
Kind regards,
Farhad
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