the only music student without an ipod

When I was sitting in class last week, the Professor asked everyone if they had an iPod, a Zune or "other." I thought to myself, I am probably the only person in class who doesn't have anything at all. I don't even own a CD player anymore.

I remember in junior high my father bought me the Rio 500. It was light and about the size of a deck of cards, and ran on a card - 64 mb. Seems puny now, but at the time it was the coolest thing in school. I think it held about a CD's worth of music...maybe less.

First I was waiting for a generation that didn't break down as much. And then I was waiting for something smaller. And then I was waiting for something with more storage. And then I was waiting for something that had the storage of a video iPod in the size of a Nano. And then I realized that I hated Apple products.

I think they finally may have invented something that makes everyone happy. The iPhone is on Cingular and is a cell phone, iPod and web browser, all in one. It is a high function device and works just like an iPod. The touchscreen allows you to call someone by touching their name in your address book. Also, the iPhone has Safari loaded on to it already. And as I understand it, Safari is basically impervious to computer viruses. However, some applications that I like to use, such as Google Chat, don't work on Safari.

One big problem, and I think the majority of my classmates' foremost concern, is that if you lose your iPhone you're totally out of luck. But at the same time, you have less electronics to keep track of so maybe you'd be less likely to lose it.

Maybe the iPhone is enough to break me. Maybe I will finally get an iPod.