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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
Smartphones were essentially better PDAs with no downsides at all.
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Palm Z22 Review, October 18, 2005:
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We've been using the Z22 for about four days on a single charge, and the battery indicator says we still have about one-quarter of the charge left.
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The color device described above has a internal battery charged in the same manner as today's cell phones.
Older monochrome Palm devices required two AAA batteries which lasted about a month. I used rechargeables.
My wife is so far uninterested in a smart phone, and so has both a Kindle Keyboard and a simple non-smart Net10 LG phone which needs to be recharged once a week. I only have a smartphone because it is employer-supplied. I don't mind having to recharge nightly, but even in battery save mode the BlackBerry can run out of juice too early in the evening. (And I do not play videos on it, or listen to music.)
My experience is that new gadget generations go two steps forward and one step back. And it is also my experience to need the step taken away more than those added.