New Toy

I got a new toy yesterday. A 16gb iPod Touch. Since this is replacing my 1st generation 10gb iPod, this is a big jump. The interface is incredible. The screen resolution 163dpi means that even small text is crisp and readable. The wifi works great for browsing and media playback. I haven't purchased anything from iTunes with it yet, but I'm sure I will at some point. The video playback is really nice.

A couple of things that I'm not entirely happy with (that Apple is responsible for):

• No way to manually open a link in another page. I prefer browsing that way.
• No Google calendar import.
• No way to add a calendar item. (Supposedly, this is coming)
• No GMail contacts import. It does it for Yahoo! mail as well as Windows Address book.
• Bookmark syncing is only from Safari or IE. I use Firefox pretty exclusively.
• The built in video conversion in iTunes doesn't seem to work very well. Every file I converted had no sound when viewed in either iTunes or the iPod.
• When viewing photos, if you switch to music to change something, there seems to be no way to get back to where you were.
• No official 3rd party software. (This is coming in February)

A couple of things that I'm not entirely happy with (that is not Apple's fault):

• Mobile Google is too stripped down.
• Regular Google sites are too busy.
• Mobile Google Reader has the sign out link entirely too close to other regularly clicked links. It sucks to have to type in a password again.
• Rotating the view to see a wider selection text doesn't work right in Mobile Google Reader
  
• Mobile GMail pushes message text off the right side and won't let me resize the page to see it all at once. I can scroll, but shouldn't it be wrapped?
• No To Do list (That will be solved in February)

Those are long lists, but I am still very happy with this purchase. I see myself using this as much as the last one.

Old vs. New

Thick vs. Thin

Just out of the box