PhonePod redux

This article sheds some light on why
Apple might be interested in a partnership with Motorola. Seems that phones are about to become more iPod-like, and the iPod may become more phone-like. Maybe dial-a-tune is not so far off?

Though I dream of that heavenly all-in-one device that combines my music library, a camera, phone,
web-browsing/email/IM and PDA capabilites, I worry that the first generations of such tools will be awkward, having glommed a lot of functionality together at the expense of simplicity. There is definitely an uber-geek market waiting for these alpha and beta complex gadget versions and lord knows I'm one of them, but there is something about the zen-like simplicity of the iPod that captivates me. I wonder – who will 'get it right' on the phone/music player tip,
to combine functionality with simplicity and ease of use?