This is yet another test of the Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone now that I’m on iOS 4.2.1. Not that it makes a huge difference one way or the other, but just proving again that the main obstacle to using the iPhone as a replacement for everything is carrying the Bluetooth keyboard around. No stuffing this thing in your pants and trying to slip through the security checkpoint. Actually I might have more to say on that later.
Come to think of it, an iPhone and iPad (the latter with Wi-Fi only) would pretty much give you what you need from a MacBook Air – the iPad does everything that needs the bigger display and a fuller browser, while the iPhone handles communications anywhere and video chat. An iPad would do for me anywhere I use the laptop now, since I only have Wi-Fi and no 3G card on the laptop, and even if you bundle a keyboard with it the iPad is still going to be lighter than the MacBook Air, even the 11″ model. And maybe an A4 processor is weaker than a Core2Duo, and 256 MB of RAM is definitely less than 2 GB, but iOS has to be a lighter load than OS X 10.6.5…something to think about. In fact, now I really have to start thinking: what is there that I have to have a laptop to do?