geek.teacher

I love my iPhone (8gb, first edition, won it from TUAW for free).  Love it.  My wife loves hers, as well (8gb, 3G, $200).  While it’s not a perfect cell phone, it does so many things well and gets so much more use than any previous phone I had that I can’t help but adore it.

One of the best parts is how incredibly versatile the phone is.  I can take pictures and instantly e-mail them to my Flickr page.  I can make audio recordings with iTalk and transfer them to my computer over my wifi network.  I can browse my Reader feeds and One-Click order a book I see in Borders for 1/3 off the price in the store.  I can tweet to my heart’s content, talk to people on IM and Skype, listen to my favorite songs and watch videos while I travel or exercise, and, oh, yeah, I can make phone calls with it.

I’m anxiously looking forward to the official release of Qik, or some other video solution, as video is the one missing media-recording piece for this device.

All of this stuff is awesome, but it’s partly awesome because of the looking forward part of the process.  3G and GPS alone were not quite enough to get me to upgrade my own phone, although they were tempting.  Instead I’m holding out for most likely next year’s model, which I hope will include a better camera and at least 32gb of space so I can fit my entire music collection on it.

Before I got my iPhone, I had a Sony Ericsson w810i, which I also really liked as a pure phone with some nifty features built in.  It was my first phone with data capabilities and a camera, so I really enjoyed those aspects of it.  It was also more open in its Bluetooth configuration, which still irks me about my iPhone.  To this day, the one thing I miss the most since I switched is the tight integration the w810i had with BluePhoneElite.

The Ericsson part of the SE team recently released some projections for cell phones 4 years from now.  The highlights:

• 12-20 megapixel camera
• Full HD video camera
• 100+ Mbps wireless internet

So in 4 years, one device will be a replacement for many higher end devices of today.  Our students will have them.  Will we be ready?

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