Good comparison, thanks.

Personally, I still prefer a keyboardless device plus an optional full-sized Bluetooth board to a device with a tiny slide-out keyboard. I have the later on my cell phone, and for the very few times I use it (since it is faster than an on-screen keyboard, but still noticeably slower than a full-sized keyboard) I'd willingly give up the space and weight it uses.

I suspect an O2 is an *excellent* device for people who travel a lot giving presentations, checking e-mail, perhaps entering some spreadsheet data (since you can always just plug in a USB keyboard), etc. For the money though -- and since I only travel once in awhile -- I'd rather have a cheap "regular" laptop and an N800. :-)

---Joel

for me the oqo would be more of a laptop or desktop replacement since i can't put in my pocket unless i'm wearing my parachute pants and the price. i can and do take the n800 every where with me in my pocket and if i need windows while i'm on the go i just vpn/rdp into my laptop. NO, the n800 is not as functional as the oqo but it does what it was meant to do and it's very portable.

Although it is possible, it's not useable at all.

I took my N800 on a 4-mi and 7-mi jog just the last few days. I hung it around my neck, worked fine. I was listening, not reading. The difficulty of reading the N800 in sunlight is rarely mentioned, but is huge. I would hate to be trying to read the gps info if I was walking where no shade was available.

Remote desktop works quite well - with a keyboard. The windows onscreen keyboard is a bit of a pain...

As a user/blogger of both UMPCS and Nokia Internet Tablets, I say apples and oranges. UMPCs are people who need rich functionality at any cost and want to keep the size below a laptop. Nokia Internet Tablets are for people who want web access absolutely everywhere. While there's a lot of overlap, those are still two different markets.

This is very true, unfortunately. I wish the N800 had a good transflective screen. However, for all I know this could be the price of the extreme viewing angle feature of the current N800 screen.

Better direct sunlight readability was one of my hopes for the Nokia, top flap case...

Ah, hope. It seems that's all we got.

Very well put. I couldn't agree more.

I should have mentioned in my original review that I largely use the OQO as an internet everywhere device, rather than a true laptop replacement (despite it being somewhat capable of the latter). So I use the OQO in a manner similar to how I used the N800 - 95% of my use is web, email, and chat.

Answers to some questions:

What's the extended battery like? It makes the OQO significantly heavier - from 1lb to 1.3lb. It fits well with the OQO and makes the device "thicker" but doesn't stick out on the sides. However, it changes the heft of the OQO enough to be noticeable, especially when using it for extended periods.

For me, the ability to run for 4 hrs without thinking about plugging is so freeing that it's much more important to me than weight. I rarely use the standard battery now.

Regarding visibility in sunlight, the OQO has a very bright screen, and I can use it outdoors in any light except when the screen is in direct sunlight (that is, I can use the OQO even at noon on a sunny day as long as the sun isn't shining directly on the screen).

Other observations - the OQO's construction feels more solid than the N800. With the N800, I noticed that there was some play in the 4-way pad - I could slide it a bit from side to side. Nearly everything on the OQO feels solid - The case is built like a tank, and there's no unexpected play in the buttons.

But after using both, I'm still quite impressed by the N800's battery life. Getting six hours - with wireless - from a cell battery seems all the more impressive when I see that the OQO's standard battery dwarfs the N800's, and the OQO's extended battery is a good fraction of the size of the entire N800.

If I could have my ideal internet device, it would be the N800 in the form factor of the OQO. I really like the OQO's keyboard and WWAN, and I really like the N800's capabilities (I don't need Windows XP/Vista and a gigabyte of RAM, just something that can do email, web, and IM. If it does more than that, that's just a bonus).