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It's been a long time since I've been truly impressed by any new gadget. After all, we live in an age of technological wonders. With all of the cell phones, iPods, digital cameras, and MP3 players floating around, it almost seems as though all of the important multimedia devices have already been invented. Is there really anything left on the horizon that can inspire a renewed sense of wonder while offering us the power to communicate in new and exciting ways?

Believe it or not, there is. That new technological wonder is the Apple iPhone. After doing some research, I believe that the iPhone is going to change the way we communicate and experience multimedia.

At first, I was reluctant to take a look at the iPhone. I really don't like large corporations like Apple, and I really don't see the need to waste money and ecological resources making new phone models that aren't any different from previous models. Therefore, I completely ignored the first wave of "buzz" surrounding this new product.

Now that I've looked into the iPhone, however, I'm eager to get my hands on one.

This phone is more than just a phone. It's a phone, multimedia player, and internet communicator all wrapped into one. Really, though, even these three classification fail to capture the spirit of this new technology. The iPhone is the embodiment of a new way of looking at communications. With the iPhone, our electronic communication and appreciation of human creativity all becomes a holistic multimedia experience that can be channeled through a single powerful and intuitive handheld device.

First of all, there's the hardware. For years, cell phone makers have been struggling to integrate a growing number of software functions into a single piece of hardware. The "key" problem, however, has been in the keyboard. On a conventional cell phone, a single key or button may have half a dozen different functions depending on whether you're making a call, texting, using the Internet, and so on. This can lead to some confusion as you have to look back and forth between the screen and the keypad to figure out which button does what at any given moment. I'm a tech savvy computer geek, and I've actually lost a phone call or two as I tried to figure out how to switch calls on an unfamiliar phone with a poorly designed interface.

The iPhone resolves this fundamental hardware shortcoming by eliminating the static plastic keyboard entirely. Instead of a clunky keyboard or stylus pen that can

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