The Who didn't Know Mobile!

The Who wrote a song called Goin' Mobile, but they didn't know. It's not their fault. That song was written a long time ago. I'm just old enough to remember the song in its original context and to admire current technology. What pray tell, is my contemplative groove right now?

Well, at this moment I'm tapping this blog out on my Droid while waiting for R to return from a Boy Scout outing. I'm in the car. My Droid is simultaneously streaming a Seal song to my Bluetooth speaker phone, which in turn rebroadcasts the audio stream to an FM channel that my stereo is tuned to...wireless tunes. I've taken a call in the middle of all this. When a call comes through, the Droid automatically pauses the tunes and lets me take the call - putting the caller's voice on the car stereo speakers. Finish the call, and the Droid automatically resumes the tunes.

To achieve this integrated to my car? $1,000. To achieve it with my Droid cost me effectively nothing, as the Droid just fully enabled all the pre-existing equipment I had on hand to be legal in the State of Oregon. Nice.

Oh, and the phone call required that I put something on my calendar. No problem, that. I just popped out to my calendar, tapped in the details while still talking, and voila!

The Apple iPhone commercial in which the user is on hold, and he describes using his iPhone to do other things while waiting (paying bills, etc.) is exactly the kind of experience I'm having right now.

This thing is amazingly capable. It really changes how I stay connected. Not always for he better, I suspect, but there's a lot of 'better' here.