If you're willing to hack around in a phone, then a jailbroken iPhone offers very similar software functionality. At that point your tradeoff is polished user interface versus a better camera and FM radio.
However, dkarl is arguing his point from "the way any typical user would" As a "typical user", if he's easily annoyed by how an in-depth phone review is structured, I could hardly imagine the litany of complaints he would come up with when the typical user was subjected to the mess of software and hacks required just to enable a few basic features that one can get from a $20 candybar.
I think the majority of our disagreement comes from the difference in the type of users we are. I'm a power user and have owned 7 phones prior to my N95 in the past 5 years. Dkarl seems to just want a basic fashion-phone and does not really care about having a bleeding-edge mobile device.
Even worse, users like me who do figure out how to use the features may not want to. Personally, I'm the kind of user who walked around for years saying, "I wish I had a web browser on my cell phone," when I did in fact have a web browser on my cell phone. It was just too crappy to be worth using. Apparently sometime when I wasn't paying attention "power user" was redefined to mean "feature freak," but given that definition I won't dispute my non-power user status.
