…Christmas of 2010, that is.

If you haven’t heard, Apple just came out with a new all-in-one cellphone, the iPhone. It really makes the Blackberry or Q look like 1920 typewriters (“capable” but ugly) & the RAZR look like a Barbie doll (“pretty” but incapable).

The iPhone is a 3-in-one device: phone, widescreen iPod, internet. It not only looks great, it does ALMOST everything (phone calls, visual voicemail, text messaging, photos, video, music, calendar, notes, Google map, full-featured web browsing, rich text push email the Blackberry way), equipped with ALMOST everything (3.5-inch screen, quad-band GSM, EDGE, camera, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, multi-touch touchscreen, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor), and cost ALMOST everything ($499 for 4 gig or $599 for 8 gig).

OK, so it’s not really that ridiculously expensive. It’s actually a decent price considering all the features included, PLUS all the innovative user interface design that Apple has introduced to the cellphone, taken from the Mac. It takes all the complication & frustration out of using a cellphone (if you’ve seen your parents learning to use their cellphones, you’ll know what I mean). It’s really going to change the way people use & expect from their cellphones.

That’s why I’m predicting that in 3 years, the iPhone & Apple’s marketing department will be so good that, I should no longer be able to resist the urge to get one myself or ask someone to buy me one.

At the rate that they are innovating, by 2010, the phone would be so capable that I can probably use it to watch live TV, track my kids’ whereabouts, start my car, warm my hands, heat up my food, do DNA analysis, beam me up, etc.

You see?