We all got what we wished for and then some.

Everyone had different expectations but nobody (not even Kevin Rose) could have predicted how revolutionary a product would be announced during Steve Job's keynote address at this year's Macworld Expo in San Francsico.

The show just wrapped up a couple of minutes ago, the Apple website is back up and fans are now going through the Apple store to find out whet else is new. There is a new Airport Extreme Base Station and the new Apple TV but the star of the show is a new gadget that we won't be able to sink our hands into for the next 6 months.

Keep on dreaming folks...

Apple has reinvented the phone...but we'll have to keep on dreaming a while longer.

20 minutes into the keynote, we all held on to our seats, anticipation building as Steve Jobs began to rattle off "revolutionary" products by Apple. The Mac in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. "Tonight we will be announcing 3 revolutionary devices." We all gasped with excitement, "a widescreen iPod, a revolutionary phone and a breakthrough communications device."

But Jobs wasn't finished..."all this in one device." And indeed the device is amazingly packed with features, which took up the remained or his keynote to discuss.

The Apple Phone is first an foremost a regular iPod...but with a 3.5-inch widescreen (320x480 at 160 ppi). In lieu of the click wheel is a revolutionary new interface called Multi-touch that adapts to the application in use, glide through songs and albums with Cover Flow, email or call with a single touch, squeeze to zoom in and out, or type with your fingers on an intelligent soft keyboard.

As a full featured iPod, the iPhone will sync with iTunes on both PCs and Macs and will playback music, photos, and video (including the 250 new Paramount titles now available on the iTunes store).

The iPhone also revolutionizes the way people make calls. Making a call is now just a point of a finger away. Point to a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, a photo or a name on an email. It will run on GSM/EDGE networks, (exclusively with Cingular Wireless in the United States). Apple chose to make it a quad-band phone which is more or less the global standard for wireless communications.

The iPhone is also an Internet device, using its built in WiFi and EDGE support. A full featured Safari browser and Mail applications, and even widget allow the look and feel of regular desktop applications. Even better,it runs on OS X.

Apple collaborate with Google to provide additional features, Google Maps, Google Search, and free IMAP accounts from Yahoo.

The extensive feature list does not end here (and surely we cannot capture the excitement of a 2 hour keynote speech in this article). The iPhone will also feature a 2 megapixel camera. Bluetooth with EDR and a matching Bluetooth headset.

The device measures 4.5x 2.4 x 0.46 inches and weighs 4.8 ounces, almost the size of the 80GB 5.5 Gen iPod with Video just a bit thinner and taller.

Battery life is a bit wee, 5 hours for talk, video and browsing and up to 16 hours for audio playback.

It will be available in 4GB and 8GB models and will sell for $499 and $599 respectively. This includes a two year contract with Cingular. Unfortunately users in North America will have to wait till June 2008 until Apple can secure FCC approval. Users in Europe will have to wait a bit longer till 4Q of 2007 and Asia even longer, 2008.