For example. I have a 'heart beat' counter app of which you tap on and it will tell you what your heart rate is. It requires a data connection. Why? To serve you ads.

Yes, I understand social networking et al, but other than that, there are really very few 'smartphone' features that I require.

It checks email for me at home, and I can load whatever media on it to watch on the go. It tracks my spending expenses. That's about all I can find interesting about the phone.

I've tried to find 'killer apps' that would make smartphones super usable for me, but most of the time they just aren't interesting enough. I don't even find games that interesting.

Asides from dropbox and the camera (N8) I do cache the odd web page for reference while on the road.

I'm still struggling to find a reason to 'love' having a smartphone.

Truth be told, I'm eyeing the wind prepaid with unlimited incoming and unlimited text for $5/month.

The only thing I'm really scared of is the porting process to port my number out and the horrible customer service, although I've heard of people doing just fine with mobilicity/wind.

I used my device for an average 6-8 years, others change theirs every 2 or so.

On the other hand, I don't mind blowing a bottle of Lafite in one meal

This is absurd in my opinion.

Once you figure out what a smartphone 'really' is, you can move on.

And what it is, is a device to have you 'consuming' wireless data and paying through the nose for it.

As someone has explained before, data is just data, no matter where it comes from. You can pay a premium price for it, or you can get it cheaply.

People say that without wireless data, they can't use their apps, and I say that it's the apps that are the problem. Their maps won't work. I say that they should get a better phone.

I have a phone that has built in maps, gps, turn by turn voice navigation AND a yellow pages of wherever I want. So to keep that in perspective, that's a lifetime's worth of map useage for a cost of about 200mb/province.

There's the issue of the convenience of streaming music which I can't argue is great, but if you really like to listen to music, just download your music, or if you like to streaming music, just record it and put it on your phone.

And when it comes to on device video streaming, don't use your data connection, just download all that you want from youtube at your home computer and put it on your phone.

Inkjet printers, bottled water, SUV's, Bad cell phones with bad data plans.

If you don't like how much they cost, you don't have to pay for them. There are much cheaper alternatives.