At the start of the day, I was again looking at smartphones. Did you see my earlier embedded videos on Facebook? Now, not only Windows Mobile but even the iPhone 3Gs look a little tired in how they implement data. Both are still very application-centric while brand new smartphones running Palm's new webOS or Google's Android take a different approach. The data is more the focus and the means to get at it more a type of unification. This makes a lot of sense on a mobile phone. For example, if the person is made the 'center', then all the ways to contact them can be shown: phone, Facebook, Twitter, and SMS. Automate it all so that a person's changed Facebook photo or GMail address will automatically update the contact information on everybody's phones. How many times have you copied a set of phone numbers from an old phone to a new cell? It just seems so silly. It's much better and more productive to have all that data reside elsewhere.
Just a few seconds ago I signed up at Evernote.com. I'm beginning to see how stuff stored 'out there' is perferable to me having several conflicting asynchronous copies in different devices. Here's a dumbed down introduction to the concept of Evernote.
Evernote to the Rescue - YouTube