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Maybe admitting I don’t own an iPod makes it blasphemous for me to call myself a geek, but I don’t and I’m not apologizing for it. I just haven’t succumbed to the hype yet, but I’m slowly being suckered in.

While there are those who like to keep their gadgets separate, I’m the exact opposite. I travel light and when it comes down to having to take an mp3 player, camera, cell phone, gps, etc. I will just leave them behind rather than fill up my purse (in fact I’m happy when I don’t even have to carry a purse). So to me an all-in-one iPhone sounds sweet, but what I’m most excited about is the possibilities for aps from a device that takes pictures and has a GPS. I haven’t read whether pictures can actually have location info encoded right in to them automatically on the new iPhone, but I’m sure that functionality is right around the corner… I have been waiting for so so so long for a camera that will automatically tag photos with location info. I think geotagged photos are a lot of fun and anything that could make the process automatic would be so awesome.

I’d love to be able to have a mobile photo blog… But it could also be so useful for all kinds of things. For example it looks like the best way to find an affordable apartment in the West End is good old fashioned pavement pounding. But I know from experience that an intense apartment search can quickly result in information overload, and it doesn’t help if you’re targeting apartments in a very small area in terms of differentiating apartments from each other. I can just see possibilities for an ap that would let you take a picture of the building, somehow automatically assign it the correct address based on location and just leave you to enter in any notes you may have such as the price of the rent, whether you were able to reach the landlord when you called from out front, etc. That could also totally work for people cruising open houses. Then you’d just get to come home and check out a nicely organized list showing all the places you visited on a map and you could run them through Walk Score or do what ever else you needed to do.

Or… omg something like that for scouting wedding venues. That uploaded to a big local wedding venue site. Because everyone in my circle knows how I am tearing my hair out looking for a wedding venue…

I just like maps a lot. Maps with lots of useful information and ways to easily effortlessly add more useful information to them.