UI performance could be better, snappier. Hopefully the upcoming Maemo 4.0 Chinook release (especially upgraded GTK) boosts N800's UI performance.

Here's my analysis, but it's very late and I am sure I am forgetting something. Comments?

Jeez, and I thought it was early. Great post (as usual). I look forward to an early 2008 launch of this device. I don't think my budget can handle two high-end Nokia device purchases being so close together.

Right as I was about to leave for work, I found:
http://tabletblog.com/2007/09/third-...confirmed.html

yay

Nice find (yet again!) thoughtfix, that made my day!

Now, if only Nokia would license a decent document viewer or editor to make the N800 more useful in processing popular document formats.. Picsel Viewer or Documents to Go, maybe?

Hopefully the next iteration of the tablet is targeted to a broader audience so licensing 3rd party software (such as doc the viewers\editors above) will be in Nokia's todo list.

Great find! I'm having really mixed feelings about the slider thing. It might make writing easier, but I'm afraid it will add to the bulk and the tablet is already at the limit of pocketability. It would be great if they could shave off some of the weight and thickness.

The previous design of the internet tablets had two layers:
1 - touch LCD
2 - PCB and battery

I would guess the slide and keyboard mechanisms would add a grand total of 3 mm to the thickness of the device. If you dissect any other kind of phone, you will discover that the keyboards are actually VERY thin on the inside.

I will also wager that the rotating camera will get ditched on this one. It was rather clever a design but required too many compromises (thickness, camera size/quality, automatic flip mechinism, one extra moving part to break.)

i just hope they didnt move the normal control buttons like on that image from engadget.

a slide out thumb keyboard, nice. but do not force the user to extend the keyboard for basic operations...

I think Nokia are scum. They release unfinished expensive devices one after the other, and fool everyone to think their devices are released complete. $300-400 was the price for the 770 and 800 when first released. Then they hardly give any support for their rushed devices before they want us to believe/purchase a brand new $400 device again that claims to be worth the upgrade. What about people that got there device 6 months after its released, they get to use their device for less than a year before it gets dropped and unsupported. Then nokia expect us to fork out another $400 for something that hopefully works well and will be supported for more than 1 year. I hate apple, but a least there devices get support for eternity unlike Nokia scum. I couldn't care less for the new tablet. My hard earned money will go to another company. This next IT will come out and nokia will leave it up to 3rd party to develop apps, there goes n800 support from Nokia and 3rd party, then ... you know the cycle. Give us at least a proper media center or pay someone to write good programs - give money to coreplayer or something, i'm sick of loading 4 different players to play certain video/music files. No word, pc sync, nothing... for those who have the n800 already stay far way from Nokia's future marketing scams. Let them show us they can support the next device by showing us first with the N800 and 770. DO NOT GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT(money) BEFORE THEY GIVE US WHAT WE ASK(support). DO NOT BUY THE NEW IT. Let the new IT suffer so they can finally learn not to screw the consumer over all the time. And Thoughtfix, I hope you tell Nokia these things when you go to these parties, try not to suck up to them so they can send you a free device to write good reviews - i know how things work in that department.

I just want the dang software to make our existing tablets more useful.