1) iPod touch 64GB (the highest now is 32GB at $500, but I am waiting for the 64GB)
Multimedia device (audio / video / photo, podcasts, music, music videos, etc). Great web browsing on a device. Multitouch interface and growing applications platform (SDK from Apple).

2) AT&T Tilt: Windows Mobile 6 ($300 with AT&T 2 yr. contract) or other Smart Phone with slide-out keyboard (Verizon XV6800, Verizon’s Samsung SCH-i760, T-Mobile Wing)
Business-style cell phone (instead of an iPhone) with great wide slide-out QWERTY keyboard and big screen. Awesome for Microsoft Office Mobile applications like OneNote, Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Use as primary email/text (instead of iPod touch). Platform for applications like IM clients, Skype/Gizmo, etc (use keyboard) (SDK from Microsoft). Personal choice, I prefer long slide-out keyboard (vs. top half is screen, bottom half is keyboard, such as BlackBerry)

3) Dash Express GPS (uses WiFi for traffic and other cool stuff) ($400)
The WiFi (and/or data plan) makes this the next generation GPS, and lets you do extra things like (send it an address from your computer) and (search gas prices, yahoo directory, use widgets) and (get free map database updates) and (get better traffic data, since every Dash GPS user’s anonymous current speed/location data is automatically shared to the Dash’s network). However, I may want to wait for a future generation or competitor b/c CNET review said the GPS is inaccurate “a few blocks off”.

Honorable mention:

iPhone (iPod touch won for me, since AT&T Tilt is my phone, and I want the higher capacity on the iPod touch)

Nokia N810 internet tablet (iPod touch won for web browsing, AT&T Tilt won for typing email and office applications)

Nokia N96: not as a WiFi device, but as a great option as your phone, with a great camera (as far as camera phones go)

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