I'm going to get either the n810 or n800, and I've read about the added keyboard being helpful. However, since the D-pad is now on the keyboard, does that make gaming more difficult? And for people who do use emulators or play games on it, can the keyboard keys be used either instead of or in addition to touching the screen? I'd like the keyboard of the n810, but I think I'll be playing some games on it and don't know how much harder it would be using the D-pad and/or keyboard buttons. Would the n810 be better than the n800 for gaming?
Controlling a game with the D-Pad is much harder on the N810 than on the N800. The placement of the D-Pad on the internal keyboard doesn't leave room for your thumb. If you want to play games, I think you should get a N800 instead of a N810.
If You wan't gaming device - better buy console.
Additional keys are ideal if the game was not designed for tablet in mind
- there is nothing to compare if it comes to VNC also - onscreen keyboard
is great - when something is designed to use it - in all other cases it's simple tradeoff.