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I want convergence, fewer devices to get my tech on. Everyone will have different thresholds of what is acceptable functionality in compromised-by-nature converged devices.
I was an early smartphone adopter, switching from a Motorola Star Tac and Palm V to a single Kyocera 7135 (early Palm OS phone). In some ways it was the cat's meow. But after a year or two I went back to a Palm Tx and a Moto Razor. It had too much compromise for me.
But since about the second generation iPhone I have near-perfect convergence of at least the PDA and phone functions. I have no desire to go back to separate phone and PDA devices.
I think convergence is desirable. Now more people are carrying around e-readers and similar-form tablets. We're faced with I/O issues getting those functions to converge into a phone's shape factor (or vice versa, making calls with a tablet) but some day soon we will get there. I'll probably buy an early heads-up-display device that gets the job done well enough.
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