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Only Apple, Inc. folks. The computer is gone, long live...the device! The iPhone was unveiled this week leaving jaws dropped all over the place. Are we being told that this sleek, stylish, sexy yet comfortable, convenient, touch-screen, video playing, picture showing iPod phone is also affordable? Is that just one big run-on sentence? Is there a dash in run-on? Hmmm...

I tend to drift. Since this device has so much to offer, it is easier on me to just touch on the main highlights to get you all excited. So here we go..

- It is in fact, an iPod and a phone.
- 3.5" Widescreen View that autosenses when turned.
- Incorporated Coverflow (the pretty way it displays album art)
- Touchscreen for easy naviagtion or music, contacts, etc..
- 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application
- Built-in Google and Yahoo! search

Those crazy kids and their perpendicular recording systems. The iPod drive uses Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology to squeeze 80GB onto a mechanism that actually features a 10 percent smaller footprint than first generation 1.8 PMR drives. What that means is more tunes and now movies! iTunes 7, in collaboration with Disney (for now), are now boasting about the ability to download entire movies to your iPod. Of course, you could always do that, but now they are offering the ability to purchase them through iTunes.

The movie list right now is pretty limited and the download times are a little slow. Each movie is roughly 1.4GB. On a cable connection, I was able to grab 'The Incredibles' in about an hour.

New information about Microsoft's upcoming wireless media player is flying all around the web today. We have decided to jump on the bandwagon and give you our take on this new addition to the media player market. While there is no confirmed name for the device the consensus seems to be that it will be called Zune, personally I prefer Xpod!

Word is the device (Xpod?!) will have built in wi-fi and a larger screen than Apple's video Ipod. We have also heard that Microsoft plans to let owners replace their iTunes song catalog for free from its own music service. As usual Microsoft will be playing hardball in an attempt to get a foothold in a new market. Will it work? Who knows.