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#83
Originally Posted by bblackmoor View Post
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.
When my Treos die, I just take them back to where I got them and get them replaced. It takes all of 30 minutes, and 0 dollars. Saying a palmtop computer shouldn't have a cell phone built in is like saying an nxxx shouldn't have a media player built in because if your media player software breaks or the headphone jacks breaks, you can't play media, you've got to carry an ipod with you anyways because you've got a now useless media player built in. After all, you can get media players for almost nothing these days.

GPS chips are commodity items as well. Are you suggesting they shouldn't be integrated into devices like the n810 because they might break?