Rod is SUPER excited because his new Smackberry has some great new features... like..

• Bluetooth
• Handsfree
• Phone Buttons
• A Calculator

I mean come on! Really? WOW!My nanna had those on her Sony t610 about 4 years ago.

My shiny new(ish- it's a few monthsold now) iMate SP5 has

• WiFi... yes real 802.1 WiFi. That way I don't pay $30/MB while roaming the world.
• A Megapixel Camera which is great for using with servces like Scanr
• A media player that happily plays all the nice content off my 1GB mini SD card- oh... it syncs with my Media Center to so I can get my news straight onto my phone.
• A web browser- with frames and Javascript support.
• Smack down yo' Smackberry ass whoopin development environment called the Compact Framework that lets me take all my desktop/server dev skills and apply them to the mobile world. If my device doesn't have a *sexy* calculator... I can write one...
• A DIRECT push connection to my Exchange server. (Oh... and it works if you run Small Business Server too!)
• A look that is more 'suave urbane clubber' than 'oh lord I wish I hadn't spilt that soup down my tie in house counsel'

Who's laughing now Rod!!!!

Anyway. You can see Rod and myself discussing future technology in software and other great things at CodeCamp this weekend... Look forward to seeing you all there.