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The real choice, I think, isn't between smartphone and standalone "dumb" phone. It's between electronic management vs. carrying around a big paper book like we used to do, or multiple slips of paper that may or may not ever get re-written where they're supposed to, and that don't automatically remind us of stuff.

And yeah. Texting with a numerical keypad is a huge PITA, though predictive spelling is way better than it used to be and DH got pretty adept with it before he finally got his iPhone.[/QUOTE]

Good food for thought. And if I were to do this, it would have to have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard