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It's too bad I won't get to see the iPhone until I return to the states (can almost guarantee we won't see this puppy here in Japan, though I'll keep my fingers crossed); I'm actually quite interested to see how it actually works out. Maximizing the screen by incorporating a touch-screen into the face is just awesome, let's just hope that it's not as much of a scratch-magnet as the iPods are.
On a side note, they do have a pretty nice portable phone over here that looks like a mini-PC (don't know if it qualifies as an UMPC, since I think it runs WindowsMobile). Apparently they are embracing the whole wireless on your phone concept quite readily.
I really enjoyed my SmartPhone before I came over here, I was able to put most PDA apps on it, had a bluetooth connection I could hook my GPS up to, ran TomTom Navigator on it all the time, used it for geocaching, synced it with my corporate email/contacts/calendar via Outlook; ahh... so many uses and yet I couldn't use it while over here. I hope the iPhone is at least intelligent enough to sync with Outlook or Lotus Notes, otherwise I don't see to many corporate entities snapping them up like they did the Treo & Crack.. I mean Blackberry.
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