I don't mean this in a snarky way but did you have a blackberry? At the time is was a quantum leap over a cellphone. I felt the same way as I would later when I got an iPhone version 1. It was a huge productivity lift that let me be mobile with a small computer for email, calendar and then basic but at the time powerful apps like weather/browser etc. If they'd done BB 10 3 years earlier they might have made it.