I'd be more forgiving about the type of card supported if it still had two slots. Oh well... sucks, but not the end of the world.

is it miniSD only? not full SD? That'd be another let-down, IMO.

I haven't been able to find any yet.

Does SAP mean: shows caller ID on the N810, lets you answer/reject calls via the N810, lets you route voice in/out for the call through your N810?

If so, then that is a HUGE leap forward. Might even make up for the move to miniSD and the bad placement of the dpad.

Engadget:

"-- it's just too bad the N810 keyboard disappoints us so. Sure, the keys are large, backlit, and far more tactile than on the E90, but the top row is jammed right up against the bottom of the screen, making typing really difficult without keeping your thumbs totally perpendicular to the keyboard. The N810 could really benefit from the room of a few millimeters more slide if you ask us.."

Any comments on this from those who have it/have used it? Texrat?

If true then this is big news. I can now see what Texrat meant when he said that the 810 is an alternative to the 800, and not a replacement. The two are very close to each other 'under the hood'.

From a geek point of view, the 800 would be perfected simply by being faster. The keyboard is not really a boon -- if a geek wants to do serious typing, he gets a bluetooth keyboard. And GPS is nice, but not essential, and once again can be brought in by Bluetooth. Some BT GPS modules are extremely inexpensive and small.

So, really, the improvements in the 810 are largely cosmetic. In many ways, with its two expansion slots, the 800 is more geared toward geeks anyway.

Hard core geeks: 770
Geeks: 800
Everybdoy else: 810

I really doubt the 810 has the horse power to route cell phone calls to the tablet (which in itself is pointless), the n800 can't even deal with Skype and gaim at the same time, and its marginally slower than the n810.

Guess I just like pointless things. Since that alone might make me buy the N810 instead of waiting for the WiMAX version.

Having 1 device that I ever actually handle, while all other devices sit in my pocket/backpack/briefcase, is exactly what I want. Having an IT that I use as the UI for my phone, bluetooth storage, etc., would be ideal, not "pointless".

Pointless is having bloated devices that, like bloated software, all try to reproduce each other's capabilities instead of using standard interfaces to lend each other's capabilities to each other. Learn something from the unix pipeline.

- so no one has stated if the screen is the same or transflective, i wanna be able to see the screen in the sun

- if they really wanted to make the memory slot smaller, they should've just gone with 2 microSD slots rather than one miniSD slot. I mean seriously, who has anything that actually takes miniSD cards?

- no built in hard cover

- no out of the box DivX/xVid support

- still no PAN bluetooth profile

- charge by USB?
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Here's a new one, is the screen mushy plastic again? Or do we get a nice glass surface (like the big 800lb gorilla) where it can't be easily scratched and save me the extra 15 bucks from buying another plastic overlay? Did they also throw out Opera altogether?

Same here. I would rather have a few more mm and a full size SD slot. As for the D-Pad on the slider, it just does not make sense: this means everytime I need to use, I would have to pop out the keyboard! What a shame... a slide out keyboard is brillant, but the execution unfortunately is not; plus it would be better to make use of the full width and have bigger keys.

I was so excited when I saw the anouncement: keyboard + gps, 2 of the things I most wanted (still no proper game console like control though). Ready to ditch my n800 and get a shiny new n810... Now I am disillusioned: too many design mistakes; I'll skip this version, and hope the next one will rectify the mistakes made here.