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Jeff I am not dependend on WiFi either, so for my purposes, you are absolutely right: WiFi does not a high end handheld make.
The point is that while the T5 doesn't have WiFi, it also doesn't have a cradle, nor a metal case, nor vibration alarm, nor a LED for charging status, nor a voice recorder... all extra features I don't necessarily need; yet features that were available in previous top P1 PDAs (e.g. T3). I don't understand why P1 decided to make the T5 "less" while at the same time selling it as their new top model. How can they justify having a top of the line PDA and not even include a cradle?!
What scares me is that it took P1 WAY TO LONG to bring out the T5 on the market. The longer it took them, the higher the expections were set by PDA enthusiasts. It is just natural that we were deeply disappointed when we heard that the T5 was still running with OS 5 (OS 6 has been available to developers for almost a year!). And while WiFi is indeed not of everyone's interest, P1 could at least have thought of releasing two variants of the T5, one with and one without integrated WiFi.
It seems P1 is moving all their operational resources toward a Treo environment. The T5 was merely a side-product using old and "proven" technology. The future belongs to smartphones - at least if you ask Ed Colligan, as depicted in Morpheus' article.
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