Good point FPP - there are many advantages to having seperate devices for seperate needs - as also advantages to having an all-in-one device (of course I am not including the kitchen sink into it).

I was also againt convergence when I used the Zaurus (starting from Zaurus 5800 the dev version). I liked the laptop style keyboard of the clamshell Zaurii. I never thought I would want a phoen witha PDA together. I never even though I would want a camera with a phone together.

But its those same real-life situations which made me go for a N95 - exoplicitly for a decent instant-available camera on a phone together (cause as you can guess in real candid situations, I found I didn't have my largish camera with me all the time). That was one point when convergence won me over.

Same goes with my phone tethered to my N810. Since I have a phone all the time, sometimes I leave or forget my IT when out and about - and lo and behold I need to access the full internet, or I need to post a blog with photos or something for which the IT is much more nifty than the phone itself. Or sometimes I had my IT, but didn't carry my phone for some obscure reason- and damn the IT was like a brick for me at that time.

Right there I feel if I had my phone-camera into the IT itself - it would save me at these moments when I missed out one or the other.

So overall convergence is not a take-it-or-leave-it choice. Its a choice we slowly adapt to considering the situations we face and the lowering of the price and technology barriers to having all-in-one devices.

Can you consider that around 10-20 years ago cell phones didn't have SMS capabilities into it. It was JUST a phone. Would you carry such a phone today ?