The only cell phone feature that has ever made sense to me is the camera phone. All those times you wish you could take a quick snapshot - solved forever. However, this makes little sense to me. You're better off going with a laptop once you get in the $500 ~ $600+ price range ... much bigger screen, more storage space, better input device (typing is faster than writing), more flexibility, et cetera. It's interesting though, because I wonder if Apple will make the same move they did with iPods to get these devices down into a price for the masses? I never quite got why no company has made an effort to do that - sure Palm PDAs got to $100 ~ $200, but the Treo models and the like were never dropped to those prices.
Tracphones start at $15, so how much can it really cost to take the circuitry from a Tracphone, strap it in to a cheap PDA, and call it a cell phone?
It is really fun to see so many "stereotypical Apple users" waiting in line for launch though... the sharp division from the "last gen" Apple user - typically an older, maybe a little chubby, collared-shirt wearing industry-workers... people who have been working in advertising or digital media for two decades who think Apple is the best company. Then you have their "new generation" of urban youth - youngsters of all races, colors, and creeds who buy into Apple's manufactured cool, sitting outside in their chuck taylor's and faux hawks waiting to get the latest in sleek plastic with gloss coating. I absolutely love it.
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