Thanks for all replies! But I still don't understand why you would need a hardware wallet, unless you frequently send large amounts of bitcoin.
There's really nowhere to use bitcoin as of today (I have owned bitcoin for 5 months, and still haven't had any real world use). And even if I find someone accepting bitcoin, it's pretty useless because of fees?
Because of this, I do not consider bitcoin a currency, but rather an alternative for gold/saving, with some advantages.
So since I can't use it anywhere, I don't make transactions that often. But I will keep a <$500 wallet on my phone, which I don't see any point in securing anymore than my phone is secured.
The rest of my bitcoins I intend to hodl. They are currenctly on an exchange, and I want to move them out of that exchange and hold for a year++ (unless hell breaks lose). So that's why I wonder if there's any point in buying a harware wallet for storage, since it would also need a paper backup... In other words, it isn't really safer to store.
Am I correct in assuming that a hardware wallet is primarily useful for anyone who actually use bitcoin for transactions? Not hodling, and not micropayments?