In-depth review of updated Nokia web pad raves

(Updated 1/25 with additional review)

Mike Arrington’s little blog neighborhood is growing, as I noticed today that in addition to the gadget-focused blog added back in the summer (CrunchGear) and his original Web 2.0-ish site (TechCrunch), there’s now one about mobile stuff, too. It’s named — wait for it — MobileCrunch.

In any event, blogger Oliver Starr has the lowdown on Nokia’s succesor to the 770 Internet Tablet, which is a kind of highly portable, wifi-enabled web pad. Starr admires the new N800 mucho:

All in all I love this device. I love the convenience, I love the size, I love the instant on/off capability. I think it does many things well and the excitement that I feel when engaged with the development community that has gravitated to this platform has convinced me that the best is certainly yet to come and dramatic innovations in software are on the horizon. Couple that with the knowledge that Nokia is already looking towards the future of this hardware platform and I am convinced that we “ain’t seen nothing yet”.

(Update) Eugenia Loll-Queru has an in-depth review over at OS News that’s got even more detail.