When I bought the iPhone, I was truly initially sorry that I did. One is because of the fact that I had to move from Verizon to AT&T to use the phone. I thought of having the phone unlocked, but to pay extra was not something I was planning to do. So I just switched my subscriber just so I can use this sleek and trendy phone.

I got hooked on the iPhone a few months of its release, as it was touted to be a cellular phone, an iPod and a PDA wrapped in one little neat bundle of gadget love.

When I got the phone, it took a while for me to get use of the keyboard less interface. Usual smart phones have these mini keyboards below the huge screen but the iPhone deleted that entirely. When you get used to this set up, it becomes second nature to text using the phone but give yourself around 3 weeks to a month and a half to get used to the touch software.

A great thing about the iPhone is its very visual voicemail system. Instead of calling your mailbox, the iPhone gives you a list of your voicemails, making you see the name of the sender and the time of message. You can skip a message and go to a message left earlier by just tapping on that recording file.

The iPhone, weighing at 135 grams, comes in two memory sizes, one at 8 gigabyte, and the other in 4 gigabyte. If you are planning to really use the iPhone for all your multimedia and mobile phone ease, best t buy the one with a larger memory.

For a business traveler, jet setting from one country to another to close deals and transition project details, aside from my cellular phone, my best gadget of choice that I cannot live without is my Travel Mate 5320.

I have other laptops at home but for my business trips around the globe, I prefer to lug this very compact mini-notebook not only because of its sleek and small design but also because of its powerful Intel Celeron 2.13 Gigahertz processor. Most mini-notebooks fail to have a great processor but not the Travel Mate 5320.

Another reason why I fell in love with this laptop is because of its double security, with a hard drive password that reassures me that in the even that I do lose this laptop, intrusion is definitely prevented. I have already lost a laptop in Asia before that caused quite a huge alarm in my firm. But with this laptop’s HDD PIN manager, I sleep better at night.

A good thing about this mini-notebook is that it has a built in MS Windows Operating System, be it Vista or XP Professional. I got mine having an XP P OS and I had no problems using it, unlike most miniature notebooks that have Linux as their default OS’s.

SO if you are looking for a miniature notebook that has enough power, is compact, has protection and a laptop built in camera for those teleconferences, then you may want to consider Travel Mate 5320. It may not have a Bluetooth port but you can add this feature by buying a Bluetooth accessory on it.

It started with the 2-Way

Ever since the early days of the two-way phone, we have been fascinated with the ability to communicate with each other from remote locations. “Mobileers” as they were affectionately referred to made the two-way the first popular mobile device ever. It originally was installed in automobiles then we felt the need to be well..mobile. Around the early 1950’s we had our first signs of phones that were actually mobile. This sparked a new trend with the “bag phone”, a phone that you can detach and attach to your car through the cigarette car lighter, Motorola’s first mobile effort spawned the “walkie-talkie” and it became very popular as a mobile way of communication. All these new inventions made one realization clear: the mainstream loves to stay in touch.

The first mobile phone

The first commercial mobile phone arrived in 1981. It came in the form of the “Motorola Dynex 8000X”. Sure it was almost as big as a VCR, but hey you could call from anywhere and that had many excited. This phone spawned an array of copycats in the 1^st Generation of mobile phones. It wasn’t until the 1990’s that the second generation of smaller, & more powerful mobile phones arrived. The new breed was here.

“2G”

With the new generation of phones came a new generation of radiowaves that could carry their cellular signals. These Second Generation radios aka “2G” were: GSM, CDMA, & TDMA (to name a few). These new phone systems had the capability to process faster transmissions and phone to network signaling. The newer systems also meant that newer phones were smaller and faster than the previous gen due to battery and energy efficient advances in the mobile phone industry. These new smaller phones became standard and the “brick” phone soon become a forgone memory.

Present Day

Nowadays, we are pretty much spoiled with choices. NTT DoComo was the first to market with “3G” networks in Japan on October 1, 2001. The U.S. was soon to follow. The “3G” networks are blazingly fast compared to previous networks. Our mobile phone experience has dramatically changed as well. In fact, some insiders are now calling the modern day mobile phone a “convergence device” . This term was previously coined by the guy behind the game-changing Apple Iphone: Steve Jobs. The reason it’s being labeled as such is the fact that we can now surf the web, watch TV, voice-navigate our road trips, create a resume, film videos, take pics and (did I mention) make phone calls with our new touch-screen mobile phones. Yes, we’ve come a long way since the two-way. Ahh the wonders of technology.