[Mr. Jeeves]

I would agree except it's not just a phone.

It's the first real convergence device, and it just rendered the cell phone obsolete.

[af_vet_rr]

It's the first real convergence device, and it just rendered the cell phone obsolete.

Absolutely.

The funny thing to me is, we've seen this coming for years. Even many of the cheap phones we have these days have some kind of MP3 capabilities. I've got PDAs that go back several years, that had much of this functionality - I stopped carrying them though, because I found myself lugging a phone and a dedicated PDA around.

As more and more places started offering Wifi, companies like Sony and Nokia began offering mainstream "internet tablets" (call them whatever you want - internet access devices, etc.).

Definitely this is a convergence device. I would not be surprised to see cheaper/smaller subsets of the iPhone at some point in the future as well (remember, the original iPods were big size-wise, and expensive).

[af_vet_rr]

Is this considered the Newton II :-)