Vincent has asked me to come on board because he knows that as excited as I get about new technology, I am not one to jump on any product’s train just because it happens to be produced by a particular company or because it runs a particular operating system. I think he gets a kick out of the fact that I don’t use OSX (yet!), and that I was content to stay at CES while he made his pilgrimage to Mecca…I mean…Macworld Expo, yeah.

With that said, I’ll admit that I am one of the many who are eagerly anticipating the iPhone’s coming. Forget that it isn’t a “smartphone” in the traditional sense, forget the price, forget the two year contract, forget the “closed” operating system, heck…forget the fact that it will only be available on Cingular in the US…it is a beautiful phone with an impressive list of multi-media features.

If the iPhone winds up being little more than a tablet oriented iPod with major wireless benefits, the world won’t stop turning and 10 million of them probably will sell…and quickly.

Of course, if Cingular and Apple really are teaming up to bring 18 months of free service with an iPhone’s purchase, they may just have ensured that this is one waiting list everyone will be anxious to be on.

Which brings me to a question I’ve been mulling…and it mainly affects those of us that are used to carrying more traditional smartphones, a Treo 700wx in my case. What business features would you be willing to forgo in order to sport an iPhone?

Do you really need to carry all of those office documents with you? Do you really need the connectivity of push email? Would you be willing to switch to a Yahoo account for that, if you can’t live without it?

In other words, what sacrifices would you be willing to make to carry this phone? Or do you consider the iPhone’s “smartphone deficiencies” to even be deficiencies at all?