I tried to plug in all sorts of gadgets and none of them worked.
that's not quite right, the 17" LCD display (Bush) I plugged in and worked just fine. I emailed the makers for drivers of my gadgets to be told, no go. Which is annoying as everything is less than a year old.
I now have a list of compatible stuff, but that makes life complicated. I need my Flybook for work, as the software will not run on Linus (I asked).
It (the 3E) really is great, and the WiFi is very good, a lot more sensitive than my PDA surprisingly. My PDA picked up 3 networks, the 3E picked up 5 including the town connections (in Inverness & in Kirkwall).
I got onto yahoo IM with Pigin and did my email from all sorts of places, I haven't managed to import my address book from the Flybook into the PIM yet but it should be possible.
The paint program is OK but a bit primitive compared to my usual work stuff, but good enough for cleaning up a few pictures that were too dark.
Battery life worked out to be about 3 hours of continuous use with loads of writing documents and email. I could have made this longer by switching off the WiFi and dimming the screen but this was a real life test.
Everything was easy to set up, I loaned mine to an friend that is not gadget friendly and she found it easy to use and now wants one. Her comment was
"Straight out of the box and everything works. It took me a month of mucking about with the software to get my last PC working properly".
If it was just traveling and general use this would be the thing for me but for work it still is not quite there yet.
I hope this was useful to you in making the decision to buy one.
mine was supplied by Clove Technology at Clove Technology – Fujitsu Loox, HP IPAQ, GPS, Mio, Acer, Oregon Scientific, I-Mate, Palm, Psion
Please tell them I sent you. )

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