It's a fun product, but can you justify it?
By David Haskin, Computerworld
List price:£309.95 inc VAT
Pros: Beautiful screen; well-designed input options; good media playback
Cons: No synching; limited VoIP
Buying advice: Although it's great to use, the Nokia N800 is difficult to cost-justify. There are too many things missing for it to replace existing devices, and its £300 price makes it a serious rather than frivolous purchase.
Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet is one of those devices that's fascinating and unique enough to make a mobile geek's heart go pitter-patter with excitement, but may not fit the needs of a lot of people.
More powerful and refined than its predecessor, Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet, the N800 is a reasonably small device that's finely tuned to give users access to the Web, POP3 and IMAP e-mail, RSS feeds and, to a limited extent, instant messaging and voice over IP. It also plays audio and video, and performs a handful of other tricks for tech-savvy mobile users.
However, while the N800 is a significant improvement over its predecessor and it performs many of its tasks quite well, it is as much defined by what it doesn't do as what it does. On the whole, most gadget lovers would do better with a more flexible, less expensive smart phone.
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