I think you neglected to notice the part where he pointed out that it needs to be cheap.

I don't really use my old N800 much at all anymore, ever since I got my Droid and my Dell Mini9, and so it just sits around most of the time. I have two 8GB SDHC cards, two AC adapters, DC adapter, car mount and GPS module. I think I still have the original box for both the N800 and the GPS kit. I'd be willing to sell you my N800 for relatively cheap but the headphone jack is a little flaky (when you plug in a headset it comes in mono until you twist the plug for a bit until you get stereo). Considering she'd want it for multimedia, that might not be acceptable unless you were intending to use it strictly with Bluetooth or the internal speakers the whole time. Let me know if you're interested, otherwise I'd recommend one of those Archos tablets. ESPECIALLY if she's into multimedia.

Hi Dan, sorry for the late response. I swear I had posted back to this thread awhile ago, but just noticed that the response is missing, so I must have forgotten to press post or something.

Anyway, thanks very much for your offer. I think I did a bad thing by bumping this old thread for a different reason. My girlfriend (actually wife now - told you it was an old thread ) had to get a smart phone for a new job she was on where she needed GPS and on the go email, so we picked her up a Samsung Fascinate, which I used for a couple of days on my own business trip. My conclusion after using it for a short time was that the hardware was pretty cool, and some of the apps were really useful...but all in all it was kind of a frustrating experience coming from an N800 that seems to be a lot more flexible in what you can do, and the design philosophy seems to be very different.

Unfortunately I have to get a smartphone for work, and for cost reasons it pretty much has to be on Verizon. That really only leaves Blackberry and Android devices at the moment as far as I know. Android was frustrating, but it was still a hundred times better than what I've seen of Blackberry devices, so I think I'm stuck going with an Android device unless Nokia announces a Meego device t hat will launch in January on Verizon (which I think the chances of are fairly slim).

Anyway, thanks again, and sorry for the confusion of the post. Really should have just started a new thread.

Well what will your work do if you just don't get one? Will you get fired? If they've let you get away with it since last summer, can't you just tell them you appreciate you need to get one, but ultimately it is a phone you need to be comfortable with and 'get on with' in terms of usability, so you'd appreciate just a couple more months because the device you really want is being released in the new year? Or a pre-bought N900 and just put a Verizon sim in?

Not sure what would happen if I decided to fight this battle, but I'm not really inclined to. I've been pushing them off for the last 6 months since they explicitly asked me to get a phone, and really longer than that since they started implying I should have one. The thing is I've started to do more work travel and attend more events, and having a portable mini-computer so I can still get some desk work done while I'm attending a conference is important. I've got a couple of trips planned for the beginning of next year, so that's the immediate reason for the deadline.

Verizon is a CDMA carrier, which means they don't use sim cards, and even if they did they operate on different technology and radios than what the N900 has, so it still wouldn't work.