I also think that the 1st gen memory size will be problematic for many who are used to much larger capacity music players.

To explain this a little bit to those who might not know, you can use the analogy of the ipod nano against the ipod video.

the nano uses flash memory... this is solid state memory... think of a memory stick in your digital camera. the ipod video uses a traditional hard drive, whirring spinning disc like thing the same as you have in your personal computer.

at the moment, its not so easy to produce flash memory with a lot of capacity... eg in mp3 players flash memory goes up to about 8gb at the moment. thats why, in order to get a large memory device, you are still stuck with the traditional hard drive. But the spinning machinery of a traditional hard drive takes space... thats why the ipod video is bigger, or rather why the nano can be so small.

so... apple chose flash memory for the iphone. thats great.. it makes sense to me. flash memory is going to develop over time. Its pretty conceivable that within a few years, your laptop or pc might be using flash instead of the traditional. so, as i have said before, apple will likely produce a number of iphones over time (over the years!). the logical consequence of this will be a larger amount of memory in each version of the iphone.


on the other hand, one thing im looking forward to from the first moment is proper, not messy integration with my mac computer at home.... with my contacts and ical data.