I want to touch the ipod touch

Well that’s probably a lame title, but I really do want to get an ipod touch, so I can touch it. Preferably, it would be my own itouch, so instead of just touching it, I could keep it.

Okay, so for those who don’t know or who have just arrived from a time warp, or aren’t really up on new technology, the ipod touch is the new ipod model from Apple.

It is basically the iphone minus the phone and a few other features I guess.

I have a few questions about how it it works and the design. I wonder why only 8 gig and 16 gig models, that seems small for me. I don’t see why they couldn’t at least make a 20 gig and a 40 gig model or something. Anyway, I also don’t know how Safari (the internet application) will function on the ipod touch. Will it be something that just allows you to view web pages, or does it actually allow you to interact with the web pages as the real Safari or any other web browser would.

I think the ipod touch and other gadgets like this, will be the end of pda’s (Personal Digital Assistants). Actually, that’s all the ipod itouch is, it’s a music player with, pda capabilities such as a calendar, contacts and a web browser, in addition to the other features such as playing viewing videos from youtube.com and some of your favorite photos.

What really makes this gadget unique, is the way you interact with it, you basically just touch it to do everything, there are no buttons on it other than one to put it to sleep.

The rest of the buttons are images that appear as a result of how you interact with this device.

This device is also Apple’s combat to Microsoft’s Zune, which uses wi-fi as well. I think this think will really hurt sales of the Zune, which weren’t that high anyway.

I’m not sure how well this gadget will do, but I think it will do much better than the iphone for sure. Especially since it’s available for anyone, whereas the iphone was not sold in about half of the United States.

It’s just amazing to think that people will be paying $300 or more for a small device that isn’t much bigger than your average check book or wallet. Actually, this is a bad analogy, but it’s really not much bigger than a cell phone. Well, duh it basically is the iphone as I said… I wish they had left the camera in it and then it would really be cool.. but oh well.

I do hope that the iphone and the ipod touch allow third party software… Well actually, they probably won’t since the original ipod doesn’t really allow third party software either, it’s just that you can hack an ipod to put a different operating system on it, such as Linux.

So, maybe someday I will get to touch an ipod touch, but it probably won’t be for awhile.