you still make no vaild argument. you can get keyboard phones such as a BB Curve, LG900G, Samsung S900 non keyboard phones have T9 type mode which is the same thing as auto correct. Even the speakers on smartphones sound like garbage they are all tinny sounding. my old phone had a 2MP camera 1280x1024 pictures great quality. Call quality is 2G still it sounds no different on a $10 candybar phone then it would on a $750 smart phone. You will experience dead zones on a cell phone PERIOD makes no different what kind it is. there is touch screen phone such as the LG800G that have email, facebook and several other things built right in....
you make no vaild points in any bit of this post...... sorry you lose!
I don't think you can justify a difference between smartphone and cell phone voice quality- some phones will have better quality than other regardless of their style. New phones can do calls over data, which sounds way better than over cellular- period. FaceTime audio sounds 10x better than cellular. I imagine in the not to distant future all calls will be digital.
2G, 3G, 4G as far as I know has little to nothing to do with voice quality but with data transfer speeds. There is a big difference between 3G and 4G. I can honestly say using my iPhone with 4G LTE offers a better web experience than my G5 with cable internet (granted multitasking is a different story).
WiFi is not available everywhere. I live in one of America's biggest, most affluent cities and public WiFi is not that abundant. Try using WiFi on the Subway... it doesn't exist. Most public wifi is super slow too.
What about someone in my career- medicine. Medical information changes constantly and there is so much of it there is no way someone can keep up with all of it- you also don't take a chance leaving all life or death information up to memory. I need an App to check IV medication compatibilities with other IV medications being injected into a patient at the same time. The result if an incompatibility- virtually instant death. I could use a PDA with the information, if the information was even made for PDAs anymore- which it's not. What if I wanted to look up the side effects or contraindications of a drug that was released 2 months ago? It's not going to be in a book. I'm not going to carry around a laptop with me everywhere I go- I move around too much and I don't necessarily have WiFi everywhere in a hospital. In am emergency, I have my phone on me, but won't be running back to my office to grab a computer if someone is blue, not breathing, and has no heartbeat. I can also communicate instantly with ENCRYPTED messaging (which is required by HIPPA) for all patient related matters. Sorry, text messaging specific patient information is illegal and could get my license revoked.
Or my dad who works in finance. He is constantly monitoring stocks and transactions- both in and out of work. Stock trading is a very time sensitive issue. It increases his productivity whether he's in the office or outside of the office. Would you want your stock broker or whoever is controlling your mutual funds or retirement account to miss out on making money or lose you a bunch of money because he was "uninformed" about the market at the moment?
Even aside from business, the majority of people, especially those who are tech savvy have an interest in staying "in contact" no matter where they are. Whether than be messaging, email, or social networking. People value being able to instantly find directions or information they desire without having to step aside to a computer or attempting to find WiFi. $50 a month for many is a nominal amount of money considering the benefit gained. You may not be able to afford the cost of a data plan- or choose the benefit is not worth it. That's fine, but to base your world view on a handful of experiences using old technology is rather biased.
One doesn't need electricity to survive. People lasted thousands of years. They were still able to bath, communicate, stay warm, cook food, etc without it, but it is a convenience that makes life easier.
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I was at a talk earlier this afternoon given by Graham Cooks, one of the modern "masters" of mass spectrometry.
One of the things he showed was a "lab on a chip" mass spectrometer that was controlled by a Blackberry.
So, there again, mass spectrometer aren't dead.
I think I remember reading about this somewhere.
