Exactly. Cell phones are cheap and nigh-disposable. Hell, you can get one at 7-11 (AM-PM for you west coast people). An expensive device -- a palmtop computer, say -- should not have a cell phone built in, because when the cell phone dies, or you you change cell phone providers, then where are you? Carrying a separate cell phone anyway, and your palmtop is bigger than it needs to be because it has a now-useless cell phone built in. Cheap, bulky, disposable things should not be built into small, long-lasting, expensive things.

As for separate MP3 player and palmtop, that's what I have now, not because it should be that way, but because the n810 has negligible storage. If it had a 80GB drive, I could stop carrying my equally-expensive MP3 player around.

But that's tangential to the topic at hand, which pertains to Palms, and if Palm users can switch to the n810. To sum up *that* discussion, the answer is "no" -- the n810 does not duplicate any of the core functionality of a Palm made since 2000, not because the n810 hardware is lacking, but because the n810 software is lacking, and in all likelihood will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.