I don't use it for business at all. I don't have that kind of lifestyle. My cell takes care of most of my PIM stuff anyway since it syncs with my macs better than the n800 ever could.

I do however travel a bit and use my n800 to watch movies/tv shows quite a lot on planes and at long waits at airports. It hasn't replaced my macbook but it has taken off some wear and tear off of it. Rather have my $350 n800 take the brunt of the real world than my $3000 laptop.

We have a lot of open free hotspots here in Portland (OR) so I rarely need to tether it as much as I used to. SO googling or wikipedia is fast and simple.

The funny thing is that I originally bought my old 770 as an inexpensive GPS unit with a big screen that did more than just...GPS.

But no matter where I am, I get a ton of questions about what it is. Talking about it so much here, one forgets how rare a N800 or 770 is. I have yet to meet another person with one "in the wild" other than the couple friends who own a n800. I get so many questions that I sometimes want to print out cards with a mini N800 FAQ and just hand em out to people who ask the same questions...haha

I don't use it for business also. Never. The device is too slow to be of service to me there. I read the occasional webmail, but you can hardly call that business use. I use the N800 mainly for a quick Internet related search or read when a laptop would be too big a burden. (In the bathtub for example )

For business PIM I use my Blackberry 8800. Besides that beauty I still have my HP iPaq for loads of stuff, up to GPS (TomTom). It's way better at it than the N800 will ever be. Good maps, lot's of add-ons.

At first I really thought the N800 was a complete waste of money. I still think I shouldn't have bought it, but a a complete waste it's not. I have found some use for it. But I still think it's an early adaptor kind of thing, not for your typical end-user that Nokia puts on the box.

About all the questions: Now that it's in a Proporta case I just tell them it's a PDA. End of discussion.

Actually, I think push email is coming to maemo. Modest, which the maemo roadmap says will be the new email client is based on tinymail, which can do push email.

I'm personally not that keen on using email from a mobile device - I get far too much of it. It is anyway good that maemo's capabilities in this field are improving as many people seem to care about it.

As to PIM, the new community calendar may help too.

great responses everyone, thanks!

I use Maemopad+ myself.

I just use the notes program that came with the n800.

I use my N800 mostly for personal use (email, internet browsing, RSS, GoogleTalk, Skype, music (Canola), videos (Mplayer) and games - Wesnoth) and for business use when I am on a business trip. I connect to the company intranet using VPN and to the email server (outlook) via web interface. Now I seldom take the Laptop on short business trips.

I only miss a good PIM with sync with outlook (to replace the Palm T5) and something like eWallet.

Wasn't there an eWallet like app available for N800?

Well I bought the tablet for showing off ppl are like w00t is dat gizmo? Also I bought it to replace my aging N9300. Now I can't live without it. Before I had to lag my laptop around, if I wanted to do stuff more than nokia could handle. Now I have a tablet wich can do all the tasks I need to. So it reduces my need to carry a laptop with me.

I don't use it that much at home, since my powerbook is far more convinient for browsing and such. But on the go it's way more easier to flip out a n800 than lug around a powerbook and accessories.

The downsides? Well there are some Before I used 2 nokias some old junk from work for calling and 9300 for internet. One charger, sometimes even not that and you are good to go. But if u wanted more you had to carry a powerbook with you. And ofcourse all the accessories that came with it.

Then I decided to get N800. I kinda thought it would be the end of lagging stuff around. But hey... what do you know Now I got n800+charger & my 3g samsung + charger for data, and an other samsung + charger for calling. Pluss in the future a BT keyboard. This is, if I am out of the house over night. Also if the tasks I want to do, are 2 hard, I still need to lug my powerbook around me

So I kinda ended up lugging lot's of stuff instead of some stuff around I only wish gaddget makers would make a solution where there would be only one charger to lug around.

I bought my 770 to use it specifically as a remote control for my music at home. At the same time, I've purchased a Norhtec Microclient Jr. and I will be using this as the hub of my home (boat) network. I've waited five years to be able to change the song playing, without getting out of bed.

The 770 will have a music player daemon client, such as mmpc and the microclient will have mpd running on it.

Maemo mapper is the other "killer" application for me. I like geospatial tools and I think that this is by far the best I've seen yet.

I'm not bothered by PIM stuff, but I'll probably try and get opensync working, in order to keep another sync'd copy of my phone's contacts database.