It’s been a while since I’ve had a new gadget and with gift cards to spend from christmas seemed like the time was right for something new. Since 2002 my Zaurus SL5500 has served me well but it has been five years, battery life is minimal and internet acces is only practical plugged in. So I ordered the replacement the other day, Nokia’s N810.

When Nokia came out with the N800 at the beginning of the year I was tempted but with no keyboard I couldn’t do it. One of the coolest features of the Zaurus was the slide out keyboard, it had one on screen you could use with the stylist but it was slow and cut the display by a third. When the 810 was announced in November and I saw it with the one feature I’d been waiting for it was only a matter of time…. oh and the GPS didn’t hurt either. It should arrive just after the new year and in time for a long weeked in Breckenridge, CO.