I believe without too much more overall size (and I would take the additional 1/10 inch thickness overall), they could have a 30 Gb iPhone and the battery to power it...but I will be happy to take a 20 Gb flash version if it comes out first.
For the device to have enough overall memory to act as a cell phone, camera, PDA, music player, video player, wireless internet, wireless email, etc., etc...I just believe 6-8 Gb is going to end up being too small.
Just my own opinion.
You said -- "For the device to have enough overall memory to act as a cell phone, camera, PDA, music player, video player, wireless internet, wireless email, etc., etc...I just believe 6-8 Gb is going to end up being too small."
Yeah, well I know for sure that I'm not going to be carrying around my photo, music and movie libraries around in this phone -- that's for sure. But, I can't do that with my 60 GB iPod. So, it doesn't work there either. I can only carry a "share" of what I've got (totally) even on my iPod. And likewise, I'm only going to be able to carry a "share" (albeit smaller) on the iPhone.
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Star Traveler
Adding a radio transceiver adds a major battery drain. A typical cell phone already has a larger battery than an iPod, and a fraction of the useful life.
For the device to have enough overall memory to act as a cell phone, camera, PDA, music player, video player, wireless internet, wireless email, etc., etc...I just believe 6-8 Gb is going to end up being too small.
6-8 GB is already as much capacity as the top-end Nano, and more onboard memory than any PDA/Phone I've seen. So it's not a quantum leap, but it's certainly a big step forward.