Piece of Beauty.. the New Ipod Touch

Yes i did buy the new Ipod the day it came out... This piece is the most wondrous device i have ever seen. it is thinner than the IPhone, the wide screen takes your breath away.. I put in some trailers and bought a couple of Itunes videos onto the Ipod, Great resolution, very clear, very sharp. Connected it to my home wi-fi network, got Youtube videos, the browser opened up all my regular sites. I could copy my laptop favorites onto the ipod. It is extremely easy to enlarge the web pages to read easily. I could also set up a second connection at work and access the web there.

Here's the best part, if you download Realplayer 10 beta, it installs an IE plugin. Whenever you watch a video online, a link shows up to download the clip onto your local machine. You can download any clip from Youtube. It is saved onto your local machine in .flv format. you can run it through a shareware software to convert it to .Mp4 and drop it onto your IPOD. This is very cool i don't have to spend $2 for every video on Itunes.

There are some shortcomings with the Touch, 16GB!!! are you kidding me? i have to make a choice of dropping my Himmesh Reshammiya songs to put Rhianna video on this device??? That's just not right. My Songs themselves amount to 35 GB already. Seeing as to how the old Ipod or "Classic" now is available in 160GB i find it crazy that the new devices are only 16GB. I know that that the Touch is based on Flash Memory and not the old whirring Hard Drive. This is great because my old Ipod would whirr itself into a frenzy and heat up my "pocket". The new one is very quick to respond, and faster to Sync. If you have the patience, my bets are on the new Touch being available in 60GB in 2 years.

The Battery SUCCCCKSSSSS!!!! i have to recharge everyday. and i don't even use it a lot. I really cant use it on my long trips to India as this will definitely drain in 3 hours max. Why cant Apple get this right??

There are no cases available for the Touch, since its thinner than the Iphone, u can use any of those. Its been a month since the Touch was released. I am morbidly afraid of scratching my screen. I have it wrapped up in a sandwich wrapper. Yeah that's a good look for this beauty!!! Please wait till the cases come out before buying it.

The touch will not allow me to sync wirelessly, i still have to connect it to my USB port.

Apple has stopped providing ear plugs with the remote control that it once did, this device could use a remote, the screen gets smudged by greasy fingers.

The worst part is that it has no Games!!! dude alteast gimme Solitaire or Tetris!!!!

It is still an awesome new toy. I am very happy i bought it and enjoy playing with it. If you are on the fence about spending the money, go out and get it... leave me a comment if u agree with me or what you don't like about it.

(please look at the picture closely, like the Da Vinci Code, there is a hidden message in it, a first public appearance of the chip off the old block, please leave me messages about it too :-)