3G iPod Touch Would Be My Dream Communications Device

I use my iPod touch as a communications device all the time. During it’s not very effective as a phone due to the speaker placement it makes a great text messaging device. However of course, I’m constrained by Wi-Fi. So I only use it around the house.

But add 3G and on the spur of the moment it’s practical to use anywhere. Hastily, it’s a phone, minus the onerous voice plan.

I don’t have a land line, so my mobile phone is my primary communications device. But over the past several years I’ve used fewer and fewer minutes in my account. That’s largely because I now make so many calls using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), either on my mobile phone, or my computer. I even use my iPad to make calls on and off. It’s weird-looking, and kind of ridiculous, nevertheless it works and it’s come in handy more than once.

Despite that, I’m nevertheless paying AT&T about $US100 a month for the voice and data plan on my mobile phone. In the meantime, I pay about $US30 a month for the data plan on my iPad. If I could use a similar plan on my iPod, it would be a huge cost savings to me over the course of the year. More than enough to justify buying a new iPod touch.

The speaker on the iPod touch to align with my ear

If Apple relocates the speaker on the iPod touch to align with my ear, and adds 3G support that let me pick a data plan from a variety of carriers, I’m kissing my mobile phone service goodbye forever. It would be a gut punch to carriers, however it would be a massive boon for consumers. And it would make the iPod Touch every bit as revolutionary a device as the original iPhone.