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Originally Posted by nerys
my needs are plentiful mostly in the "apps" smart phones can run. IE I am a data intensive user (although my actual data usage pales compared to some hard core users here) I used maybe 2gigs on a heavy month.
I LIKE the very large screen and the normally candy bar form factor of smart phones. that is part of my needs.
those are needs under the presumption that I have a cell phone.
there are plenty of dumb phones that do SOME of these things but NONE that do all of them and none of them really run any apps beyond gmail ebay and google.
they are slower they have smaller lower res screens etc. etc..etc..
heck many of the features I like from my smart phones DO NOT EVEN REQUIRE sprints data network
Slacker - wifi - camera - video playback of normal formats - etc.. etc.. etc..
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Yeah, and all of those are being satisfied with your TP2 now right? Pretty much all of what you said (Slacker, high res and large screens, speed, apps) are only recently offered by smartphones. Smartphones of 2 years ago didn't have any of that either. Dumbphones are about 2-3 years behind a smartphone in terms of equivalent technology. When your TP2 kicks the can in 2-3 years, a dumbphone by then will be able to replace it. That's what I'm trying to say. Dumbphones are advancing...in the past 2-3 years, they advanced quite a bit. Do you think in 2-3 years, dumbphones are still slow, low-res, lacking ability like they are now?