On Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:25:31 PM UTC+1, pcool wrote:
Most people, 99% of those I know, use a dedicated device for flight.

The reason for that is pretty trivial: your software runs only on hardware that is not adequate for anything else. That alone makes the hardware "dedicated for flight". That is a limitation imposed by the software, not necessarily the user's deliberate choice.

My Dell Streak is (mostly) dedicated for flight, but I enjoy using my normal phones on occasional leisure/schooling two-seater flights. I don't need to remember taking it with me, I have it in my pocket all the time anyway, and so often it turns out to be useful.