The most important features for me:
- Airgapped transactions. Private key is only on offline computer.
- Deterministic wallet. Only one backup, no matter how many addresses you create.
- Ability to bring in my own entropy from a dice and deck of cards (which you can do perfectly well in Armory even though it's not explicitly shown in the UI, as explained in one of my tutorials).
- Encrypted wallet file for backing up to online computer, such that it can be customized to use lots of memory (scrypt) before using a decryption passphrase. Crucial protection against brute-force attacks.
Do any alternatives other than Armory provide these things?
(For me, the full node is not as crucial. SPV would be fine IMO, if not better.)
reddit post you can bring your own entropy in to Trezor. I would prefer to trust the developers know what they are doing though.