Who is Farhan Lalji?

I wasn’t the first of my friends with a mobile phone.  But I do have one that some of my friends are jealous of now.  Before 2000 a phone booth, a land line and a pager sufficed.  Segue; pagers – what were we thinking?  Now I carry a couple, text like a maniac, occasionally surf the web, write blog posts and play around with excel with my phone.

I wasn’t the first of my friends with an iPod, but I couldn’t really imagine my life without one now.  Before 2004/5 I made due with a Sony minidisc player, cd’s, Winamp and mp3s on my PC.  Now I listen to a bunch of podcasts, most if not all of my library is on iTunes, and I can’t see myself using anything other then my iPod for digital music.

So as the iPhone get’s closer to the UK market and as I read about all the fun American users are having with their new toys, I’ll wait.  I don’t think I’ll get the iPhone in the next year - or two for that matter.  I think hardware takes a couple of years to work the kinks out and truly provide users with a good experience.  Not to mention the fact that the price will come down dramatically (the Razr started out at 500 USD as well and now you can get it for a song with a plan).

The only think you get from being one of the first adopters of hardware tech stuff is cool cache.  I think I can live without that.  Patience definitely pays when it comes to technological hardware and I believe that waiting a year or two will pay off with an iPhone that has more then 8GB of memory, 8 hours of battery, a 2MP camera, not to mention the fact that the pipes for internet consumption and sites should be rendering much better for mobile internet.  Not to mention I still have a year on my existing contract.

I didn’t regret waiting for a mobile phone, an iPod and – although I’ll probably end up with one in a couple of years – I won’t regret waiting for an iPhone either.