Thread: ComputerWorld reviews N800
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2007-01-26 , 17:52
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Originally Posted by aflegg View Post
If the software was as good as everyone wants it to be there are two possibilities:
  1. The devices would have been launched a year later for twice the price.
  2. The 770 (and hence N800) would never have been released due to the length of time of development and the necessary resulting cost being prohibitive from a business point of view.
I would probably pay $650 or so for an N770 that performed email, PIM, and web-based tasks perfectly, but that's me. I think they misspent some development time making the N800 "fit" into the Nseries in terms of aesthetics and whatnot. They should have spent that time improving the software instead of making it more like an Nseries device. I hate the prospect, but I suspect that by the time 3G becomes inexpensive in US, N800 will still be suffering software pains, and I will be doing all of my email and PIM on the latest Symbian phone.