Thanks for the high praise, I’m glad you find my posts interesting/useful! Perhaps I should end each post with a tagline, “–This post has been read by Barry Buchanan.” ;-)

It is hard to argue with the N800s price. I’ll be very interested in your experiences with your new toy/tool. I was mostly just bragging about my U810. :) Just kidding, but I am happy with it for a sub-$1000 PC it has more than met my expectations. Good luck and have fun. I Googled the N800 and I may have to pick one up for myself some day. I’m so glad to see a move away from trying to make a phone/PDA. Seems to be a hard balance between a functional PDA and a retro-cell phone sized device.
Keep up the great blogs dude. Yours is the only one I read every time I see you post. Mostly because I don’t want to miss out on the latest toy…er I mean tool.

Barry - That Fujitsu unit looks very nice! Unfortunately, the N800 is my only option from a budget standpoint right now, but I have looked at a few Windows-based units. Also, I just helped a coworker purchase and set up a Lenovo Tablet PC last month, which is an excellent device (although with a 12″ screen, it’s not a UMPC). The Lenovo tablets are even more salty than most, however, but you get what you pay for! I don’t care about handwriting recognition too much, however (which the N800 is supposed to be bad at), but touchscreen navigation rocks. For typing, a touch-typing keyboard is a must for me which is why I’m getting the Bluetooth keyboard.

At this point, it’s a bit late to change my mind, as I’m just waiting on my N800 to arrive in the mail! I hope it arrives soon, as I’m having trouble concentrating on other stuff while my mind keeps wandering back to the N800 and getting excited again :-) I’m hoping it lives up to the hype, but I’ve read enough about it to be pretty comfortable with it already I think.

The biggest downside I can see is the lack of an Office app like OpenOffice.org and the lack of OneNote, which would be nice to sync with my laptop and desktop. Neither are deal-killers but I do think those are the main unattainable things I will want on the Nokia device.

There is a lot of value in a handy small internet device that is for sure. UMPCs are great and I have been waiting and waiting for the right one. I recently got a Fujitsu U810, and I’m still not sure if it is more of a Tablet PC or a UMPC. Regardless I love it and have been doing all of my notes and my toons on it for a while. You should at least take a look at it and other UMPCs before you take the plunge. I did a write up about my new “baby” on my blog. http://churchithelp.com/blog/?p=128

Good luck and have fun! BarryB

And thanks for the mention in this post and the last.