I could be wrong, but I do beleive you can get all that on a cell phone nowdays.
You are definitely correct on that. But, we aren't a big cellphone/phone family. She mostly wanted the ability to listen to music when we would go out for drives and her brother and I are listening to politics on the radio.
But, the difference in functions vs price and the unbelievable poor quality of the iPods we experienced moved us away from the iPod column.