Except that one time when someone important (or not so important to you) dies and walking through old email correspondence lets you relive moments that are gone and may have been forever forgotten without the help of archived emails. While I don't want anyone routing through my emails while I'm alive, I can imagine what a treasure trove of my history is trapped in email format and can be visited, explored and enjoyed by someone else, be it a distant grandchild doing research or a historian trying to understand the emergence of internet technology and its social impacts 75 years from now.

How many iPhones, HTC EVOs and other early adopter phones are purchased without ever touching one? I bet it is the majority. The inability to touch and hold the phone wasn't the problem, the problem was that we live under a cell phone system is is based on phone subsidization and multi-year contracts. If a phone could be purchased at full price and a phone service could be paired with it that didn't carry a subsidization premium, they might have done much better. Bottom line is that Americans don't like paying a premium for a phone unless it is made by Apple.