I use my N-800 for watching movies, listening to music, viewing my photos, reading with FBReader, lots of sketching recently, taking photos when I am without my camera, listening to audio books, and email and web browsing when I am away from my desk or laptop. It's always in my pocket when I leave home. I would not have bought it if the price had not dropped to $230+/-, but now that I'm hooked I will be willing to pay whatever for the N-900 if it turns out to be as great as I hope. I am especially happy about the improved camera possibility. Oh yea, also use it a lot for showing off. My wife says I don't really have to show it to everyone we see.

* Google Calendar Sync (gpe-calendar + erminig)
* Weather (omweather)
* Videocasts (Video Center; for the subways)
* Supercool remote for my Squeezebox
* Web Browsing / GMail (from pubs, work; a gmail app would be great!)
* xterm/ssh access anywhere!
* streaming media player (when traveling, with USB powered speakers it's *great*!)
* GPS a bit (more monkeying around)

how are you using it for sqeezebox?

i use it for quick notes on the wards, as a student it keeps me from carryung around billions of loose paper scraps filled with confidential information.

canola

various movies via flash found on ovguide

pidgin facebook pluggin has recently reconnected me with a college friend

duke3D

did use gvm for some palm platform programs, but instabillity has tapperd that off

The built-in e-mail client, Modest, has its share of failings, but it is a 'gmail app'; it works (for most) as a capable GMail IMAP client.

Seems that /me is the only one who uses the thing for office tasks. It's nice to be an extra-terrestrial. And I am also both generously short-sighted and got presbyopia too after my fourties :-)
Ah, and my tablet happens to run gtk-gnutella and/or nicotine from time to time when I want that particular tune of the seventies/eighties on my ssd... :-)

1. Web browsing

This is much better as some people claim, if you do some tweaks. Minimum font size to 20, CSS ad-blocking, some hacks in prefs.js. Also switch off Javascript if possible, makes a big difference. A pity that Nokia does not provide those tweaks out of the box, the noise-and-complain level would be much lower.

2. Email. Modest is trash, use Claws instead.

3. Ebook reading with fbreader and evince.

4. MP3 with build in player

5. skype

6. RSS reader

7. omweather

These are my major apps. Very happy with the N800 and use it every day for several hours. Great for web browsing when being in bed.

Debernardis, you're not alone on the "office task" use. I work from home and depend on being available to clients. With the N800 and my office calls forwarded to my cell phone, I can be at a local cafe or book store, take calls, answer e-mails and be "at work."

At a local university "media" seminar I used it to display my audio and video samples. (The NoBounds Project would have been really nice. I was really looking forward to that.)

I keep up with friends via Skype, although the lack of camera use has been disappointing. I listen to tunes using my Rhapsody account. Watch movies or recorded tv shows on trips. Listen to podcasts. My favorite CD's have their own SD card.

Awesome flash drive when I'm working on friends computers. I love multitasking in front of my niece who has an iTouch.

There are things I use that are "nice to have" and "must have." The Nokia N800 is a must have for me.

They've added threads and tag support? Maybe contact syncing?

I'll give it another swing (it's been a while) -- but it was pretty unusable last time I tried it (and no, I'm not talking about quantity of messages). The GMail Java/MIDP on my cell phone gives a better user experience....

Just tried. Ah, er, nope, still kinda stinks....

GPS/Mapper. I use Wayfinder, it is good enough for me.

Email - works well with Gmail for quick on the road reading

FM radio and Internet radio streamer.

Image viewer for my phone.

Starting to mess with Free42 - the HP programmable calculator simulator, because I have to do some conversion calculations at work, and it would be nice to not have to carry my HP33 with me all the time.

I bought the N800 primarily as a "larger screen" for my N95, and because I'm a gadget head on a budget. I was saving up for an OQO or Sony Vaio UX-50, but had a hard time justifying it in my mind.

As a side note: It got me running Linux on my laptop and I'm now just about MS free. That alone made it a good deal for me.

GPS - Maemo Mapper on bicycle + Wayfinder in car (got for £20 on expansys the other week)

Mobile WWW - via Bluetooth/Wifi

PDF Reader - for all my network diagrams & other docs.

GPE - Good sync to Google Calender/Lightening.

Will upgrade to an n8x0 when I can get one for <£80

Cheers,