iPhone replaces netbook

So here I am, on my bed, trying my hand on blogging with iBlogger on my iphone. Sure the typing is slow. But hey! It works.

Which brings me to my point.

Do I still need a netbook? Does Apple really need to release a netbook?

I am not saying that I have no need for a more powerful machine though. I still use my MacBook, though lesser at home now. Why? Because most of what I need to do can be done on this small little device.

Even typing is slightly faster on this with the almost perfect auto correction feature for typo mistakes.

As a phone, this is barely enough. It does not read the SMS from my sim card. I can't forward. No mms. No selectively deleting message from SMS conversation. But that will change in os 3.0.

For multimedia, well. It plays movie well. Music too. And I bring along with me a lot of podcasts. Would be better if it can check for podcast updates over wifi! Camera is barely sufficient. Would be good if it comes with timer and multi-shots.

For productivity I have Evernote, iCal, Things and 1Password. Considering Quickoffice for excel, and waiting for iBank.

For social I have skype, tweetie, im+. Just need an irc to round it up.

Localpicks, Eventful and Map are interesting and helpful too.

For the net. Mail is good enough, and I use it for IMAP emails. Safari browsing is fine too.

For data I have Briefcase and Airsharing.

For remote access, iSsh and Jandu vnc are excellent. Remote for iTunes is good too.

For reading there's Netnewswire, Read it later, Papers, Stanza, and even Pulllist. And then there's a Bible, wikipanion, dictionary.com.

And it even have a whole bunch of games!

It completely fulfill my needs. Sure, at times, I do wish for a bigger screen. But then it wouldn't fit as nice into my pocket as it does now. And battery sure is a concern, but a netbook has the same problem.

I do my rss, articles, ebook reading almost exclusively on this now, and is considering switch all my books to ebook versions. I almost seldom use my MacBook at home now.