I take it these people have never heard of the eeepc 701.

Less expensive does far more, (especially with 3G dongle but even using a bluetooth connection to almost any phone) and more rleaible by the sound of it.

Battery life is good though.

So this thing has less resolution than a nokia N800/N810 and is more expensive?

So this thing is designed to do one, very basic thing. That one thing it seems to do REALLY poorly. It isn't compatible with most devices and, even when it is compatible, it doesn't support a substantial proportion of compatible software. It is also terrifically expensive.

So why 70% ?

It doesn't do it's job very well and it costs a fortune.

If someone marketed a can opener that only worked on some cans and, even then, kept leaving feck-off great jagged edges and cost you £30 would you give that 70% as well?

I thought the general idea of a percentage score was that it ranged from 0-100. I've never seen you guys give less than 60%. So, if we take the ACTUAL available range as 60-100 then a score of 70 is actually 25% which is a bit more like it, though still generous.

Not only are you going to get laughed at for buying a crock of a WM phone to start with, but doubly so when someone discovers its not actually a net-book you are using, but its just something which blows up all the inadequacies of Windows Mobile on to an 8" screen. When they find out you've paid almost twice as much as what an EEE PC 701 now goes for, they'll probably give themselves a hernia from laughing so hard.

As Cobblers says, get an EEE or any one of the hoard of similar net-books, and use any phone you like as a modem. You'll have a fast, reliable system (if you go with the Linux versions), running Firefox and all the plug-ins which is a universe away from the hopeless WM browsing experience. Open Office is also vastly more compatible than using the crippled little WM Office apps.

I dont think I'd give it house room. It does nothing very useful that my Eee701 wont do, and can't do a significant number of things that my Eee can.

Good battery life is the only killer app, and seeing as my Eee burns up most of its batteries playing DivX it loses on that front. as for charging the phone it seems a very big, expensive, complex way of carry a phone charger...or a spare battery...

Not only does it seem useless but US customs is likely to give you a "through" examination when you tell them that you laptop which "suspiciously looks like a laptop" contains no data and isn't a laptop.