> Where are you getting the maps if they're not being streamed on the fly? OSM in vector form takes up 2TB. Upload them to the phone off-line from whatever sou

> Where are you getting the maps if they're not being streamed on the fly? OSM in vector form takes up 2TB. Upload them to the phone off-line from whatever source you happen to have. This can be anything from your internet-connected device at home to wifi at home to a DVD to wifi at the library to a computer at the library to a USB device to... > Of what media? The three included music tracks that came with it? Same as above. > Installed from... CD-ROMs? Well, it is getting repetitive but yes, as well as the other options shown above > sensor platform for audio/acceleration/gyro/barometric/temperature measurements Audio as a self-starting recorder, acceleration as a theft alarm, barometric as an altimeter, etc. You seem to confuse the absence of an internet connection on the device with the total absence of the internet. The one does not imply the other, it is perfectly possible to have what is in essence a disconnected PDA which you occasionally sync to the 'net or to whatever other source you want. All you're losing out on is live communications through the 'net but SMS works for much of what you'd want to use that for. You can compose and read email on the thing, just not receive and send it while on the move - sync it to some other device and voila, you're back in the times of PDAs. Those were quite useful and far less distracting than the current crop of smartphones.