Thought Sausage

Cos Apple has ya covered

Steve Jobs officially debuted this thing right down the street a few hours ago @ the Moscone Center. I've always been a little skeptical of things that try to be all things to all people. Eventually they end up becoming a solution in search of a problem (gee, did I really need to watch full length movies on the 3.5" screen of my phone). But holy fuck, this thing is just plain rad.

I knew about the widescreen ipod thing for awhile. And for a guy who tallied up 140,000 miles in airplanes last year, watching movies in a portable fashion doesn't seem like a bad thing. What really kicks ass is that you can sync this ipod with another one (as I understand) so all the stuff on my big ipod could play on it. This is good because the phone only has an 8gig capacity, and I got 20gigs of music. I'll probably keep using my current ipod to cram music, and the phone for stashing movies/shows on.

Then there's the internet. I got in the habit of surfing the web on my Treo, but the browser sucks all kinds of ass because it can't render pages properly on the tiny screen. It looks like they solved that problem with the iphone by having a zoom feature. Nice.

So this basically represents $600 I'll be spending in June (when it is released). Whoopee. Coincidentally, that's about the time my current contract expires, which is with Cingular, who also happens to the exclusive service provider for the iphone. It's nice when things just work out.