I guess I can see the impact to battery life, my smart phones battery life gets worse with each upgrade in hardware. I'm lucky if I see 12 hours out of my new phone - if I use it. It's good on standby; but not much fun that way. What I never understood was why bother with a camera and videocam that we can't really use for much of anything. Does anyone carry their edge around to take pictures with? If it at least integrated into the note taking apps like Evernote it would have some use. Qik video works, but the quality of the recording is poor and video-chat was one of the features the early ads featured.