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Well, I mentioned my Grail quest a few months back and, since then, I’ve been inundated with precisely zero comments, emails and Twitter mentions asking about it. Naturally with this level of interest, I simply have to put you out of my misery.

For many years, I’ve been searching for the ultimate mobile device. I know I’m not the only one. Long ago, I decided that a single device should be able to do, well, pretty much anything a computer can do. Except for burning optical dics and booting from floppy discs perhaps. At the time, this seemed like a faraway dream, but cellular communications went digital, technology got smaller and slowly PDA manufacturers and mobile phone makers got together and started making beautiful freak babies.

Now the market is flooded with cellphones that can do email, Internet even fancy GPS navigation and much, much more. My most recent run of phones; The HTC Touch Diamond, The Nokia E71, The HTC Touch Pro 2 and the iPhone 3Gs have all been very close contenders for my Grail quest. I’ve only just started trying the iphone and it’s predictably very good, but I still feel like something is missing. I don’t know what though.

So far the only issue I’ve had with the iPhone is the inability to download files from the web such as mp3 files – unless they’re from the iTunes store of course. I suppose there’s an app for that?

Tags: grail, iphone, mobile

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