It should also extend battery life, have a camera facing the user to enable portable iChat via the iPhone.

For those who want to make their Pocket PC look like an iPhone, here’s a skin:

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&title=want_to_make_your_pocket_pc_look_exactly&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Most of the applications on my Treo 650 are there to make it do things that it should do but doesn’t. A new address book to improve the Palm one, a program to make the volume loud enough to use without a headset, a program to make the phone turn on when you soft-reset, etc. eWallet and ListPro are the only true ‘third party applications’.

I’ve heard the argument that the Treo 650 is a great phone that requires you to buy software or it isn’t so great. Judging from my own experience and also from reading blogs like Treonauts.com, that’s not really far off from reality.

What if Apple makes a phone that ‘just works’? It won’t work for *everyone* – notice all the people who don’t have iPods for various reasons – but nothing works for everyone. This isn’t the fanboy in me – it’s a possibility. The iPod led a revolution of sorts, or at least was in the right place at the right time. Cell phones have become ubiquitous but they tend to A) make phone calls poorly and B) poorly do other things that aren’t phone-related. What if the iPhone makes great calls and does other things great, but it doesn’t easily let you do *everything* you’d want?

Also, what if ‘widgets’ – apparently the only third-party software apple will support – fill in the blanks? Also don’t forget about web 2.0. Always-on web access may do what you want, and since apparently the iPhone is supposed to have a ‘real browser’, that may open up some serious heavyweight web apps to actually work.

Just my thoughts, and my hyphens.

The big disappointment for me was hearing that the iPhone [allegedly] lacks 3G. Granted, 3G isn’t supported everywhere, but in places that it is supported, it helps out with internet connection speeds. I don’t personally have a 3G device but my boss and coworker do and they both love it.

The phone looks beautiful but it seems like it will fall short of the greatness that the iPod continues to maintain. It looks like it’s trying to harder to be an iPod than a mobile phone. I feel the same way about AppleTV. It just doesn’t wow me, mainly because it doesn’t look like it will have a TV tuner for DVR capabilities, but I may be wrong.

On another note, I spoke with Kevin from technical support over the phone today. While we did not resolve the problem I’m having with my phone and the e-wallet software, Kevin was very helpful and nice I appreciate the great support and hopefully there will be a fix or workaround for my phone. The product is equally as good as the support. Thanks for a great product and keep up the good work!

MB

So this is going to be a no no for me!