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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Well, my phone is no match my to my odyssey for reading ,or to my cannon S100 for photos.
Totally replaced the mp3 / video player though.
Specific devices are here to stay, even if their market share goes down. As long as they have some added value to multipurpose devices, there will be some people interested in them. If only because they don't give a damm about the other functions.
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Last night I was at Wrigley Field, and because of the rain and the poor record of the Cubs, I was able to...um...adjust...my seating arrangement. So I hauled out the trusty iphone 4 to take a picture of what a great view of the field I had, and discovered that the extremes of light & shadow kept me from getting a good picture. Now, I'm sure that there's a better app than the standard iphone camera app for dealing with this kind of situation, but the bottom line is that any decent point & shootish type camera would have delivered better pictures. OTOH, 9 times out of 10, the iphone camera is good enough, and like they say, the best camera is always the one you have with you.
At the same time, when it became necessary to verify who had the most RBIs in a career (Hank Aaron, of course) the iphone came in handy.
So when I go out to take pictures, I take my Pentax. But I hardly ever use my Pentax to look up baseball stats...
And it's the same for reading. I don't do much longform reading on my iphone, because when I know I'm going to be in a situation where I can do such reading, I take my T1, which takes really lousy pictures.
So it seems to me that for the most part, you can have One Device and mediocrity, or Several Devices and excellence. Most of the time, in situations where you have to lug things around if you want to have them when you need them, good enough is good enough. If not, plan ahead & bring a dedicated device.