Adventures in iPhone Land.

When the iPhone launched last year, I promised myself that I would wait until the 3G version came out before I took the plunge.  You see, I use a pda (Palm Pilot TX) on a daily basis for such things as checking email, reading ebooks (a lot), watching the occasional video, tracking todos and maintaining a large list of text files (think ‘memos’ on steroids)   Besides the pda, I also carry around a 20GB ipod photo for listening to music and podcasts during my daily commute, which can end up being nearly two hours round trip on very bad days.   And of course, I always always always have my cellphone with me no matter what.

So there is a certain logic in yearning for a convergent device that rolls all of the  necessary functionality into just one, shiny little object.  I wouldn’t need to lug around three different devices (all with separate charging needs, no less) and lighten my load, so to speak.   I’ve kept a close eye on the iPhone developments over the past year (including the whole ‘jailbreak’ thing) but after seeing how quickly the new 3G version sold out, I realized it would probably be a few months before I finally got my hands on one.

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