Essential Smart Phone Features

GPS and Directions

• Read-aloud turn-by-turn directions

MiFi or Tethering

• Must be easy to get internet access for laptop through cell networks
• Must be able to provide full Internet, including e-mail, IRC, SSH.

Dictation

• Automatic voice to text (with correction so it learns), or possibly a paid service

Data sharing with personal computer

• Contacts, text messages, notes must be easily shared with a computer in basic text format
• Ideally, direct sharing and not through a proprietary online service

Battery life

• At least one day, with use