I have to carry a camera anyhow? I really don't have to, and don't want to. There is no use case where I could find any camera phone useful. If I want to take a picture, I want a proper camera; I want my phone to be four things:

1. A device for having voice conversations with people far away.
2. A device to sending short text messages to people to pick up when convenient.
3. A device to managing my voicemail.
4. A device to act as a high speed connection to the Internet when I've got my 770 with me.

This package should be as small and stylish as possible. A camera is most certainly not part of it.

Except the "870" doesn't have a GSM/GPRS/UMTS component (quite rightly) so the actual choices are:

1. 770 + phone (with camera)
2. 870 (with camera) + phone (with camera)

A nice idea, but why not use the existing capabilities of the 770 to read images over Bluetooth from the paired phone's camera (if present)?

Of course, without sacrificing battery life, size or weight. Not that they won't do this, but it smacks of the wanting the moon on a stick!

I understand that people dislike RS-MMC, but it doesn't bother me. Having now got a 1GB RS-MMC card, I wouldn't want to have to replace it for use with the next device.

EDGE is just GPRS+ or UMTS-, so is a technical dead end. As I said above, it's been clear why - from business and tarket market use-case points of view - they've no interest in adding GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS. As for WiMAX, I'd be surprised - there don't seem to be any large usages - but I could be wrong.

Indeed, that's a killer.

Effectively, then, something with the power to afford the flexibility of a full-blown desktop computer, with the comparable computing power and expansion options. In a device smaller than an A6 piece of paper, which is lightweight and costs around £250.

I agree it'd be nice, but so would winning the lottery!

Cheers,

Andrew