&gt; Me, I love mountains... my iPhone is a terrible companion. Battery life is poor. Interface sub-optimal as I wear gloves, sweat, am in motion, etc. What I want is an AdventurePhone. Replaceable battery. Sturdy. Waterproof. Dual SIM. Easily mountable. Great camera. Solid grip.<p>I see the author&#x27;s point, but I&#x27;d actually approach a solution in completely the opposite direction.<p>The whole reason the phone has become the all-in-one do-everything device is that the vast, vast majority of the time, most people aren&#x27;t doing some highly specialised activity like skiing. Rather they&#x27;re going about their daily lives, in a very predictable, stable environment. In that scenario, you want to optimise for convenience, which means portability, which means a small, light, touchscreen device that does everything well enough.<p>In the specialised activity usecase, you want precisely the opposite of the &#x27;all in one convenience&#x27; approach - you want specialised tools that each do one thing really well. So you absolutely don&#x27;t want to swap out your iPhone for an &#x27;adventurePhone&#x27; which packs a load of features behind a specialised &#x27;skiiing&#x27; interface - that&#x27;s an unnecessary and almost certainly wasteful mix of specialised and generalised tools - what you do want is a set of specialised tools, each with its own ski-friendly interface, to give you <i>exactly</i> the feature set you want for your highly specialised activity.<p>Camera? GoPro. GPS? Garmin watch. Music? Ipod shuffle. Phone calls&#x2F;SMS? extremely cheap Dual-SIM solid-as-a-rock dumb phone. Occasional use of chat app? Cheap, light dont-care-if-it-breaks android device.