[The Duke]

I was always a skeptic about smart phones until I got one and realized how much of a "force multipler" it was for me, and also does wonders for compensating for an imperfect memory.

That doesn't mean, however, that advocate expensive cell phone PLANS - and that's where the bit costs are.

[fireman15]

I was actually an early adopter of “smart phone” technology. I purchased my first, a Sprint PPC-6700 in late 2005. It has a 416 MHz processor, 128 megs of flash ROM, a mini-SD card slot, 1.3 megapixel camera which could also take video. It supports both 1xRTT and EVDO... something the original iPhone was not capable of.

The PPC-6700 was the first Windows Mobile 5 phone to hit the US market. I consider more recent iPhone series, android and Microsoft phones to have made evolutionary improvements over the PPC-6700. Obviously, there have been improvements in size, performance, Operating Systems and applications but the basic functionality and uses are similar.

We have upgraded from the PPC-6700 but have a grandfathered Sprint plan with free unlimited data. Sprint won't let us upgrade from our current HTC Touch Pro 2s without going to a plan that will cost approximately twice as much. I should probably thank Sprint for keeping me from wasting more money on trinkets that I don't really need.