zerojay: In your usage it might not require one, but mine gets dumped into my pocket along with whatever else is in there and has to fend for itself. I don't carry a bag, don't have a car, most of the time I'm wandering around downtown. If I'm lucky I have cargo pockets but hate heavy things knocking against my knees. The great thing about the 770 was that if you (as you said) have no need for a hard cover, you don't have to use it. You can carry it around as-is (seriously, I doubt it's inclusion in the 770 jacked the price up astronomically).

They also shaved a bunch of size off, so I'm skeptical about accepting that it was either GPS or the second slot. Might be they won't be happy until it's 1mm smaller on all sides than an iPhone.

Which brings me to another point. A second card slot is just bizarre to me from a design perspective. The fact remains, they added that functionality, and then removed it. I'm not trying to debate whether things are good or bad, just that there were many things they implemented, things that were received with great fanfare by the community, and then were taken away for inexplicable reasons.

*Edit: Oh, and Greyghost, that pic is probably Nokia taking it *off* the plane after launching a new version of the aircraft.