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I just don’t get it.

I despise the “does all” phone.

I guess I must be old.

I want my phone to be a phone, have the ability to get “text messages” (Like an old pager used to do- handy for use when an answering service is taking your after hours calls) and tell me what time it is.

For all the other stuff I want I use an Ipod Nano 5th gen.

The thing is pretty doggone impressive. It weighs nothing, is so thin it is nearly two dimensional and yet it all of this stuff!

I can stuff a bunch of podcasts on it as well as language lessons, or any esoteric weird stuff I can think of (All thanks to the podcasts and IPOD University in the Ipod store) as well as a couple of Top Gear (The British version) episodes to watch while I have lunch.

If I need to record a conversation it can do that, and no one is the wiser if stealth is required. It even can take fairly decent videos.

It even makes a handy audio source when troubleshooting or installing commercial sound installations, amplifiers and jukeboxes!

Amazing and astounding capabilities in such a tiny and reasonably priced device.

The best part is, it doesn’t have a damn phone in it!

I would hate to see the Ipod go away, but I think they ruined the Nano when they made it a tiny little touchscreen device and took out the camera and shrunk the display.

Here’s my challenge:

I have a very nice 4/3 Panasonic GF-1 camera that takes amazing pictures, but so often I see a great shot and I don’t have my camera with me. I always have my phone, which has a fairly good camera.

I have a couple of music players, but I always have my phone. Even in my car I just plug it into my car stereo through the aux jack and I can listen to MP3’s or Pandora.

The phone is not my favorite option in either case, but it is always on me and ready at any time to be used as a camera, web browser, music player, GPS navigation device, etc.

Oh, and I can make and receive calls, which is nice.