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I had a Nokia N800 "Internet Tablet" and loved that device. Android was a huge downgrade compared to what you could do with that in every way except interface, and the interface wasn't too bad.

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I had an N800 and and N900 afterwards.

I used the N800 until the battery eventually failed.

It was amazingly liberating, as a 'computer person', to have a truly hand-held computer; all my friends and family thought it was a stupid toy with a hard-to-understand interface -- but they liked drawing on it.

I had an N800 and found it so amazing, 2 sd card slots, pop out camera that could rotate, and a useful kickstand. I recently found the Planet Computers devices and tried their first version out, it is conceptually a bit similar to the fxtec mentioned in the blog post.

I had the older 770, and loved it with all its limitations. I recall downloading Google maps images of a desired area trough a 3rd party tool that would also stitch them together, then and using them on the 770 with an external GPS receiver to have sort of a live map while driving. And the LCARS Star Trek styled screen gave a nice touch too. Nokia was developing great products back then, then one day Microsoft came and ended it all.

Did the same with my N800 while driving in South Africa. The downloaded satellite maps showed the roads that were actually there, unlike those on the maps.. and that was very important, as it turned out. Very glad we had that N800.

(I had the N800 first, and got the N900 when it came out)

Same. In college I would show it off while working at the IT desk by sshing into the computer lab machines and checking on running programs/homework/etc. Used a bluetooth keyboard for the full "hacker-on-the-go" experience

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