I like having the hardware. It allows a use case like the one I have for my N900. During the first ~50 years of my life, I collected a huge quantity of paperwork that I knew I would probably never need, but I was reluctant to throw out. Old tax returns. Elementary school report cards(!). Receipts. Banking records. Car registrations. Medical records. Letters from loved ones. Now all of that has been scanned, and resides in an encrypted filesystem on my N900 which is backed up to Dropbox. I've shredded all the old hardcopies. Now most of the time having that available in the cloud would be just fine. But it's nice to know that if I really had to, I could show someone my Birth Certificate or 1990 income tax forms even with no internet access at all.