Can always just leave the 980 in the charger for when you really need to see something on that color touchscreen, and just use a 900 the rest of the time.

The 900 lasts for months with hybrid rechargeable AAA batteries and when it does need to recharge, you can always slap in some other AAA's. The feature that auto-turns off the display is another nice touch to extend the batteries even more.

99.9% of the time I use a remote control, I don't need to look at it to operate it. That is the whole point of a hard button remote.