I love my netbook. Battery lasts about 7 hours with heavy use, its small and light and 10 inch screen is enough for quite a lot of uses (prefer using vim to eclipse on it though). It's like an ipad except you can create content on it. When it dies, I will buy another one.

By the logic of this author, it's better to open a store in the middle of nowhere than a shopping center, because the middle of nowhere is not saturated with competitors. The number of applications on the iPhone actually draws in more customers, Apple advertises rather heavily the fact that you can find an app for anything!. It's also been shown that iPhone users are willing to pay money for applications, has the same been shown about android users? Also I question whether Java is more developer friendly than objective - c. The syntax is more familiar ... perhaps, but thats really its only advantage, Objective C also has memory management (if you want it).

Just find the US equivalent of this phone http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/1600/ It's cheap ( 1 week) if you turn off the screensaver It even has a colour screen Just dont expect any features besides phone/text