The week has been a blur, so I´m catching up on writing thoughts on the flight home.

Did I tell you how many N800s I saw this week? I counted nine at the conference I was at. For a population of about one hundred, thatś very close to ten percetn penetration. I would never have expected such a high number at this point in time. Just took me by surprise,

In the hotel lobby today I saw another person using one. And right now, on the plane, there are at least two others in use right now. I saw people watching video on them as I walked down the aisl to the facilities.

So I have to ask, is the N800 that big in the craowd that isn´t bleeding edge gadget geeks? Or am I in some wapr of the space-time continuum, caught up in the N800 vortex?

As a portable tool, it beats every one I´ve had in the past. One of the biggest troubles with portable devices is the battery. I charged this up to near 100% at the airport, but its been on the whole flight and still shows 6 hours life left. I know the indicators aren´t entirely accurate, but the life is good enough for me

I´ve seen some pretty incredible security things being done with it. We already know it does VoIP using either Gtalk or Gizmo, video calling and generally does all sorts of cool things.

I´m going to shift focus just a tad and start paying attention to how I´m using it to get different hings done. I may just keep paper notes for a few days, then share what I catch myself doing with it,

One thing I´ve learned is that while Maemo-blog works for posting, it is not an offline tool at all. You have to be connected, and that isn´t always the case for me. So I need another tool. On the plane I´m using the built in note pad function. Sure I have two other enhanced notepads, but simplicity is key. They add zero value for this.

I need to dig into WordPy and the Python llibrary problems I´ve been having so I can give that a try. Maybe I need a simple html edittor, but I don´t think so. My needs are modest and my expectations low really.

I noted with great dissatisfaction that there is no voice recorder application on the N800. What a stupid oversight to leave something like that off. Given the speakerphone capability, this should be a built-in app that nobody has to think about. Let me pick which memory location I want to use, and how much memory, up to and including an entire card. And save it as MP3 for ease of sharing. Hell you could do podcasting straight from the N800 natively if it had that, so why doesn´t it?

More to come, but the kid behind me went into high kicking mode again.


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