Let me offer a different perspective on all those features vs. non-features that are apparently necessary vs. unacceptable. Bigger: yes, but that's the price of having a larger screen; do you seriously like working with the 320x480 resolution on a tiny screen? Can you read a PDF document? I can actually read many PDF documents. Not all, but most. Not terribly comfortable, but feasible, if I need to. Not terribly fast to open, but it does open. Heavier: yes, but not much, you can't seriously call it heavy. Junk web browser: it runs Opera, and recently also Firefox; which of them is junk? Both browsers have their hard-core fans. No phone: yes, but haven't we become slaves of the mobile phone obsession? Do you seriously need a phone 16 hours a day, 365 days a year? I do actually own a phone, but buried deeply in my backpack. Carrying a phone with you constantly exposes you to electromagnetic impulses. Most devices, to get better connectivity and quality, will use more power. Do you like carrying a microwave transmitter in a pants pocket around your testicles or in your jacket right next to your heart? Is this really necessary? Does everyone need to get calls 24/7? Frankly, I prefer to call back. Getting calls is distracting, and I'm not a salesperson, so I don't need to have a fast response time. GPS? How often do you really use a GPS unless in your car? Unless you are a hardcore traveler, probably not too often. And if you are, iphone is perfect for you. Do you find it comfortable using iphone as a GPS while driving? is it safe? App store: the entire Internet is my app store, and the browser is my app store client. My app store beats yours in terms of cost, availability, diversity, openness, the number of applications. UI is lousy, yes. Guess what, some people focus on the content (the opened document, the dialog, the video, the email message), not on the buttons or menus. And having a better resolution is far more important than better UI. Multi-touch: what does multi-touch really gives you that you can't have without it? Camera: nice to heave, but phone cameras are just not good enough even for vacation photography. I won't even mention things like a crappy lens with no depth of field. There are some laws of physics you can't bend. But even the weight of the device itself. Light device means shaken pictures, it's as simple as that. Tech support: what do you need tech support for? Also, how much of it it free? Is it worth the monthly fees in subscription? SMS, how is this better than email? ITunes: with an open device like this, you can upload anything onto it using regular filesystem interface drag and drop, over USB or bluetooth. And if you really need to, you can write yourself a 100-liner in C# that synchronizs over wireless. I can actually do that, since I can run any code. The advantage of an open platform. Anyway, WMP may not be sexy, but it does a good job organizing music into folders and categories on the device. No decent mp3 player: what is decent? I would think mp3 has to only send the bits to the sound adapter. Actually, WMP does a pretty smooth playback.