Will the iPhone generate sales for other PDA-Phones?

So today is the day. Folks have been talking about it for months. The manufacturer has been teasing us for longer with glimpses, snippets, an promises. But today at 6pm local time the world will no longer have to wait with baited anticipation for Apple's iPhone. Or will they?

Industry analysts are skeptical about supplies, the exclusive contract Apple has with AT&T as the preferred wireless service provider, as well as just the iPhone itself. Of course curiosity and techno fanatics will consumer hundreds of thousands of these devices, but my question is whether the iPhone will fuel a resurgence of the PDA-Phone combo devices?

In the last year we have seen several manufacturers begin pumping PDA-Phone devices into the market. Motorola, Samsung, Treo, even the huge business PDA player RIM has introduce some snazzy Blackberry additions prior to Apple's big release. Is all this activity a beacon to a new PDA-Phone age, or simply each manufactures' attempt to generate some sales in the wake of Apple's big splash.

Personally, I believe Blackberry sales will increase through the third quarter of 2007. Whether it's because folks aren't happy that the iPhone isn't available, doesn't work as promised, or simply because current blackberry users are willing to upgrade their devices to compete with the "cool" factor that the iPhone is obviously generating. I believe the same will be true for Treo sales as well, for similar reasons.

So while all the current blackberry, treo, and blackjack users out there are comparing the feature sets and battery life cycles; we should be celebrating the iPhone's release. Again I believe that the whole PDA-Phone market will benefit from the iPhone's introduction. This also means that I will benefit, since I've been a PDA-Phone user for several years now.

Where am I?

Have you ever had one of those instances, whether it be an evening, day, week, or month; which you look up and realize that despite all the activities you have been engaged in little progress has been made. It's that realization that despite being able to cross off one item on the ole "to do" list that an additional four items have been added. It's the overwhelming feeling that you are treading water, or worse yet no matter how much exertion you continue to sink. I'm sitting in my office and on either side of me are reams of "to be filled" papers, and some of which I don't even remember placing there. You want to take a breather and tackle things linearly, but neither time nor energies are available to be dedicated to task of catching up. So you continue forward, hoping and wishing for an opportunity to simply catch up. If time does present itself, you are faced with the choice of taking said time to clear the clutter, or do something for yourself. If you clear the clutter, well then you haven't really taken a break, rested, or relaxed. However if you take time for yourself, sure there is a fleeting period of rest, but then you return to the clutter and to do list that never seems to reduce in volume. It's a catch 22.