Sounds like Steve has never used a search engine before.
Also, freedom from programs that actively steal your private data? If you have that problem, you either lack common sense of web-surfing, don't care, unless your eBay account, Paypal account or such has been hacked/broken into.
As for battery life, if you stuck a huge battery to a high end smart phone, you'll also get a great battery life.
He's got a point on the app part too, from what I see, many things are ported from current WinMobile or Flash apps. Guess how many freeware programs are available for windows mobile? Not the easiest to use phone/Pocket PC OS, but I can drag and drop stuff into a SD/microSD card plug that into my PDA and run it straight on my PDA. Heck, I was running web radio (TCPMP music player) and surfing multi tabbed online(Opera Mobile) with my 5 and a half year old PDA (both are free programs).