It's a pitty this one doesn't offer mobile phone function, otherwise for sure a must have item ;-).
Let's wait for some user reviews once it's available.

eijckmat, for your information, Nokia is planning an operating system upgrade ? the Internet Tablet 2006 software addition ? that will support additional services, including Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging. Since the tablet has WIFI on board, ... making calls with Skype should already be possible from the beginning I presume.
But indeed, no real phone is available.

eijckmat, for your information, Nokia is planning an operating system upgrade ? the Internet Tablet 2006 software addition ? that will support additional services, including Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging. Since the tablet has WIFI on board, ... making calls with Skype should already be possible from the beginning I presume.
But indeed, no real phone is available.

Nokia 770 release date postponed to Q4

The Nokia 770 won't be available in Q3, but in Q4 and definitively before Xmas. The delay is introduced to enable more mature software at launch. Seems reasonable, isn't it.

Anyhow, before Xmas, is good enough ! It's a real Xmas gadget.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Mobile phone giant Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday shipments of its 770 Internet Tablet device had been delayed to iron out software problems.

The Tablet, which is intended to allow users to browse Web sites and check email, is now expected to start shipping in the fourth quarter.

The Finnish mobile firm had originally expected the Tablet, which runs on Linux-based software, to enter the market before the end of September.

"It will be shipping during Q4. The finalisation of the software platform took a few weeks longer than we originally planned, so that's why it didn't start in Q3," Nokia spokeswoman Marika Kojo told Reuters.

The Tablet, which is expected to sell for about $350 excluding local taxes, would initially be available in the United States and Europe, but Nokia had not set a specific new date for it to start shipping.

It can be used to access the Web at WiFi hot spots in airports and cafes, using short-range wireless technology like that now common in laptop computers.

It can also use Bluetooth short-range signals to connect to the Internet using a separate mobile phone.

The Tablet can also play videos and music, but initially will not be able to be used as a phone, and Kojo said the delay did not mean any further functions were being added.

"It's only to finalize everything," she said.

Nokia plans to release an upgrade to the operating system in the first half of next year to allow Tablet users to make phone calls over the Internet and use Instant Messaging.