johnkzin & Khertan: I may have mentioned before that I don't believe there is such a thing as a True Convergence Device yet. Why? I'll say it again: BAD INFRASTRUCTURE. We don't have everywhere Internet yet, and until we do, everything is a crummy hack job.

I was going to step through your arguments one at a time, until I realized that you're still not getting it; convergence hasn't happened as long as you can talk about voice, data and text messaging as different things.

Yes, in the future, we are going to become very very reliant on the Internet, and we are going to be fairly lost without it. I know I feel pretty lost without it already, and we aren't anywhere near everywhere Internet yet.

I think in a few years the concept of syncing will be very low priority. Occasionally someone will want to do it, if they're going to a boat-access-only cottage or something, but most of us will not even think about such a thing. Our handheld devices will be access points to our "application/data set," and everyone will have "a set", but most people won't be able to tell you where their data and applications are actually stored. Some geeks will still keep a home server to hold their data and serve their apps, but most people will just trust someone else, Google or whoever replaces them, to take care of that stuff for them.

Also, you should never keep the master copy of any data on your handheld (or laptop, for that matter). Not now, not in the future. Believe me now, or wish that you had later.