I'm sad to say, but I am now forced to depart from my Nokia 700 now. What has happened? It has been a little schizophrenic from time to time, but tonight it really got to me in a big way. First it was a problem with it not powering on. Then there were problems with the UI randomly screwing up. Finally, it has decided to stop running one of my favorite apps. To put it quaintly, it's not quirky, it's just outright defective so I am left with no choice but to return it. To say that it increasingly doesn't work as advertised would be an understatement at this point. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted I suppose.

I really want one of those Origami devices, but they are just too expensive for me. At $1190 for that Samsung Q1, there is no way that I can afford that at this point. The gadget geeks have been failed by Nokia, Samsung, Microsoft, etc. because they have done an all or nothing approach. Either you get a slow, low-end device with half-baked GTK-based software or you pay out the ass for something at least twice the size of your pants' pocket and end up wondering if it's really just the love child of a PDA and a laptop.

This is what I want. I want a 1Ghz or so Pentium M. A really low end Pentium M, and I want it in a tablet PC form factor. I want 512MB-1GB of RAM, a 4GB-8GB hard drive, a Radeon Mobility or portable GeForce chipset. I also want it to have the sort of inputs that are conducive to mobile gaming, but hidden under retractable plastic guards. Doesn't matter if it's a little too big for my pocket. I wear cargo pants, and as long as I can carry it in my lower leg pocket safely, I'm fine with that. But what I don't want is this extremism. I want a PC that can play SNES, Genesis and even N64-level games, but that also can act as a PDA and run a full suite of Internet apps.