With 5,000 applications, the iPhone is everything from a work tool to an awesome gaming platform and yes, it's much better at being a computer than a phone. With high-speed 3G service and geo-location, this is a communications device like no other, allowing you to do all kinds of things locate the nearest dry cleaner in an unfamiliar city, read the latest version of New York Times or TIME.com, find your car in a parking lot from the palm of your hand. Some day, smart phones that run Google's Android operating system might dominate the mobile computing world. But now, the Apple iPhone does. ($199 plus service contract)
Josh Quittner