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I have to single out that comment. You can't browse the web and enjoy it on current devices. It's a pain in the ass. I've got an iPaq with a decent size screen and it murders most websites. You can browse the web, but not like the iPhone can.
To each his own.
I have no problem browsing most of 'my' websites on my 8125 when I need to. Of course, we all have different expectations of which sites we visit, so YMMV. In my case, it's news or weather sites (Wired, CNN, Google News, NWS, etc), maybe a few forums (here, AVS, AV123), and occasionally shopping on Amazon or browsing eBay. They all work just fine for me. No, it's not as nice as surfing on a real PC, but it works just fine when I need it. I highly doubt that the web experience will be as magical as the Apple commercials & demonstrations portray it to be. In other words, it's still going to be the web rendered on a 3.5" (2.8" for my 8125, 3.8" for your iPaq) screen.
Out of curiosity, is your iPaq running PPC 2000 or 2002? IE in PocketPC 2000/2002 butchered websites, I completely agree. But from WM5 on it's quite a bit better. The column modes actually (usually) work. For those websites that IE:WM5 can't handle well (I have found a few), I find that Opera Mobile does a fine job.
I have heard that IE on the new WM6 devices (the 8525, for instance) is even better, but have not experienced it.
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I won't be buying one, though. You can bet that the innovations in the iPhone will be making their way (minus the phone/email/web stuff) to an iPod near you soon.
I agree with you 100% on this point. Give me everything the iPhone has, except the phone, but give it a 30GB+ hard drive, WiFi, and charge $349-$399 for it. Sold! 
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Forget the hard drive. Give me a 32GB flash drive!
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Getting one... (the flash drive--it's been ordered...)
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I will read blogs and look at unboxing photos. 
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Maybe I'm old fashioned, but: I WILL NOT be assimilated, resistance IS NOT futile! I sometimes leave the house just to get AWAY from the phone! I listen to my music straight from real CDs or DVDs or SACD with every darned zero or one getting through, either on speakers driven with a real sound system, or with a PCDP with quality Headphones...no buds or those goofy cheap little portable cans!(cancel that; my Wife likes her iPod with KSC75s) When I get on line I want to look at a real MONITOR no smaller than 19" and have a full-size keyboard! I figure out where I'm going before I leave and I watch the ROAD when I drive! And the speedometer is good enough to tell me how fast I'm going and if I really, really want to see which direction I'm heading, the van has a compass display. Besides; I haven't gotten lost since I was sixteen!
My Nikon F2a takes great shots or we take the Wifes' digital cam.(in the years I've had a camera phone I believe I've taken three shots with it!)And as far as video; why on earth would I want to watch a video on a teensy little screen when I'm outside in the heat when I can watch it at home on a 65" screen with full surround and enjoy the air-conditioning!? And if it displays TV; 1000 channels and nothing to watch anyway! And they ain't nothin' goin' on in my life important enough that I can't wait to get home to check my e-mail that I normally only check once every two or three days anyway!
Resistance IS NOT futile!
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Maybe I'm old fashioned, but: I WILL NOT be assimilated, resistance IS NOT futile!
At first I was going to call you Jean-Luc Picard, but after further review, I am going to call you Abraham Simpson.
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P.S. For all you dial-uppers, that's a 862 kb mp3 file. TTFN!
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