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> PCs really separate the men from the boys. How hard is it to simply use a laptop
> designed for computing on-the-move, instead of having 1000 useless things on a mobile
> phone? How about actually using the phone as a phone?

Ah

Because today you probably want something that is more of a general-communicator-remote-login-office-hacking-device than only "a phone"? Phones (and unfortunately still most "Smart"phones too) are ironiliciously "for tick pepol" onlee. I could be ok with that if you did wrote to separate is using a real desktop machine instead of (most are) a crappy and too expensive laptop for computing.

> And not a 99 megapixel camera which still fails to deliver a decent picture, blurry video maker (because jagged, 160x120 laggy 7.355165fps-on-average videos are so
> awesome; yes I know they have improved, but still)

But still? Last time i checked, most cameras have been VERY improved (N8 anyone?) So in what decade are you living? 2003-ish? 720p is not a rare word heard in the mobile business...

> wannabe desktop publisher (because capital letters and punctuation do not exist to most users)

That's a problem in general (on the web anyway), not particular to mobile users.

> wannabe games console (no comment necessary)

"No comment", why? For example, Maemo can play webOS games via preenv. I think most of them are really nice, besides that it doesn't support multitouch. I think most mobile games are comparable (in "depth" or lack thereof, content, graphics and controls/easy-of-access) to arcade games, so why are you interested in arcade games then?

> wannabe music player (because we all love that tinny, high pitched squeaky sound heard all over the bus/train/restaurant)

About playing in public: Indeed, but that are mostly kids/teens/Americans. Use good earbuds (and by that i especially NOT mean the ones you got with your Eiphone/Eipod/Portable device, but costly 3rd party ones like f.e. the Sennheiser CX 400-II) and a music player with supports FLAC/Vorbis/Parametric EQ et al. Btw, the speakers on my N900 show good frequency response, are perfectly understandable, and do not distort... often not even laptops can provide this experience.

> internet browser (yay, let's all make mobile-specific pages because they can't fit the standard VGA width, let alone 1024 or wider)

Almost no issues using microB and Opera (Fennec is a resource hog). And using microB, i can load the desktop versions of websites, not having to use the mobile version as on iOS and similar shit. Even Flash is supported if truly in need, but it's sometimes cumbersome anyway.

> expensive messaging device (note that MSN et.al. are free, yet SMS texts still cost money like it's 1976).

Ok, SMS / MMS is still expensive as shit in Europe / on roaming if you do not have special plan packages, but Pidgin (ICQ, Jabber, or maybe also MSN for you NA's) & Skype rock using WiFi where available, and if not, anyway you HAVE to use a data package with your plan.

> Over mobiles since 1998. Over and out.

What do you use since 1998, then? If not "Mobiles", "Luggables"? Or only telephone booths?

Besides gaming with is different on a mobile, I can do almost anything that i need to do while travelling. Either while in Vietnam/Asia, the US, or elsewhere. Only Sygic Mobile on Maemo sucks as there are no other Navigation solutions that offer offline address searches/routing, because it's prone to segfaults. Most if not all free tools can download OpenStreetmaps, but do not support offline routing if you do not want to create a track before.