I do not need your assumptions. The point I was trying to make is that everything on its own is going to perform superiorly at what it's meant to do, rather than a phone which is good for sending texts and calling people when a land-line is not in range, but even at $500, the phone is probably not going to have insanely fast internet connection, nor will it have a great camera and video recorder when compared with items that are built to complete those tasks, and those tasks only. Thinking about it, although it may cost more than $500 (and added charges for the internet), in the long run, you're getting far better quality for every task than buying an extremely expensive phone that is not as good as the items that could do the tasks with much more efficiency. Also, I will admit, every phone I have ever owned had a very short time in use, before it failed - people I have known have had good phones which have broken, quite quickly in fact. Although the reliability of a $500 is not known to me, I cannot imagine that its reliability is much when compared to separate items. Anything to say?