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September 14, 2005
Nano technology
How cool is this? It's the new ipod Nano. The size of a business card, the thickness of a pencil and the weight of a CD case, yet it's a fully featured iPod with a colour screen that displays album covers and can store a thousand songs in flash memory. Simply beautiful. Already my 40 Gig iPod that I got a year ago is beginning to feel antiquated.
But what I'm really looking forward to is seeing further convergence of items. In two years time I want a fully featured 3G phone that's also a PDA with a quality 5 megapixel camera for stills and video, and 60 Gig of storage for media including MP3s, photos, and movies. And all of this in a format that has a crisp clear colour screen for all PDA, camera and video watching but in a device that's small enough to carry comfortably at my hip. I have no doubt that such a device wil come - there are many that do all or most of these features, but don't do all of them well. For example my Treo 650 is a great phone and PDA but the camera is poor quality and the storage is limited. Sony Ericsson now have a phone with a good 2MP camera but without the features of a Palm or Pocket PC PDA. I just can't wait to see a device that covers all these bases well - my ideal wish would be a collaboration between Palm and Apple, but we'll have to wait and see.
