Technolust

By now I'm sure many of you heard the announcement from Apple (the many of you that is that would care for Mac products). I never thought in the million years that I'd consider purchasing a cell phone for $499 much less considering it a bargain (just when I started to think about purchasing the Garmin Nuvi or the Archos 504, too - whew!). The Apple iPhone is without a doubt going to change everything about how cellular products are made and sold in the US and will be effecting other similarly capable products as more functionality is brought to it.

I actually sat through the entire keynote speech about this product and was transfixed! Jobs is such the salesman extraordinaire and it was interesting to see the other charismatic CEOs from Google and Yahoo! contrasted with the old old old school dude who runs Cingular (he seemed like a nice guy, but not very prepared for such a big event). And inextricably, the whole thing ended with a song from John Mayer.

The phone is due to be released in June later this year :) Now if I save a quarter a day...