Though, for me, it was actually a lot more practical than a lot of the apple fanboys I see. As you know I travel a lot, quite a lot in fact. So in order to be able to listen to music, watch TV episodes, etc and still have battery power for my laptop when getting to a new town, I went mp3 player shopping. The ipod is really hands down the best player on the market. (Especially the video version.)

What that will mean for the iphone, I am not really sure. Honestly, I could care less about watching utube videos or other media files on my phone. However, if alltel (yep I am a customer of them as well and have had pretty decent national coverage) made it available, I would consider getting one. Not because I think apple is the greatest thing since the personal computer, but because of the truly new functionality being introduced with it. For the business person who uses their cell phone as their primary (or only) phone line, the conference calling function would be awesome to have.

Anywho - I really think we will see some of that stuff hitting other phone models eventually.