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You're gonna totally love it. The dedicated Mail app works so much better than trying to stick with webmail via Safari.

I took the office Touch with me on a recent weekend jaunt to England (didn't want to have the iPhone and worry about keeping it in Airplane mode to avoid crazy roaming charges), and the maps, Web surfing, and email were all lifesavers. Didn't even bother bringing my Mac. Watched a rented movie on the flight, too. The screen is soooo nice.

You might come around on the music as well. I mean, it's not like carrying a nano too would add much weight to your pockets, but the iPod functions on the touch are very pleasant to use.

I bet you'll really dig it. Especially when the Apps Store comes along and you can get games and stuff for it as well. Although that's not out until June and you'll  have to pay "a nominal fee" (they wouldn't say how much, still TBD) to upgrade the software to get the Apps Store.

Susie wrote:

I bet you'll really dig it.

I'll get it in a few days.  I'll let you know in a couple of weeks.  Here's hopin'.

Can the touch (iPod/iPhone) be used as a PDA the same way a Palm is? If so, I'll get one eventually.

I hope I can get one, it is nice you will like it.

wellfleation wrote:

Can the touch (iPod/iPhone) be used as a PDA the same way a Palm is? If so, I'll get one eventually.

not really sure what you mean by this ... but maybe if you listed things you do with your palm ... we could tell you if the touch can do it.

Cobalt60 wrote:

mrreet2001 wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

Can the touch (iPod/iPhone) be used as a PDA the same way a Palm is? If so, I'll get one eventually.

not really sure what you mean by this ... but maybe if you listed things you do with your palm ... we could tell you if the touch can do it.

Well, I have a Palm Zire and the Touch does everything it does as far as I can tell.  Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Clock.  It doesn't do it the same way.....I think it's better.

Of course the Touch doesn't have all the third party programs that the Palm has but I guess those are on the way.

Cool, that's just what I wanted to here!

I just asked my wife if she wanted my Tungsten/E2 so I could get a Touch. She said wait until your birthday which is the end of August. The good thing about waiting is all those 3rd party apps will be out and maybe even an update for the Touch will be coming around that time (I will be getting the low end model since I already have a 4th gen iPod for all my music and will be using the touch primary as my PDA, some e-mail and occasional web surfing)

I'm sure you love it! So how does it work? Great? Are you glad of your new Touch with the new software?

Cobalt60 wrote:

wellfleation wrote:

I just got the 8GB and it seems REALLY awesome.
T The Touch is packed with cool features I will use and there will be tons more come June.

I'm glad that you like it.  I didn't mean to mislead you when I said I though it worked well as a PDA.  I don't use copy/paste much or repeating events so those functions didn't enter my mind when making the recommendation.

As you say, come June there will be plenty of little apps for the Touch which will likely solve all the little glitches.

I'm pretty satisfied with mine.  I'll take it on a trip this weekend and I suspect the Maps and Safari will come in handy to find my away around and to find my way to local restaurants.

The feel of the Touch, just like all iPods, is rugged/solid in the hand. Before buying I spoke extensively to an Apple sales agent and one of the questions I brought up was the glass looking screen and if it would "get all scratched up easily?" The sales agent then picked up one of the demos, took out his car key, and began to "attempt" to scratch the screen but obviously was unable to do so. Pretty impressive, my smurfy Razor was scratched all over in a matter of hour of being in my coat pocket with my car keys! The only area he said to worry about scratching, which is also typical with all the iPods, is the shiny back. He recommended getting a case regardless and recommended the Contour Showcase. It's a little of the pricier ones ($34.95) but is totally worth it.

I can say the Apple rep really knew his stuff. Although I did say to a random rep that I needed to speak to someone who was very familiar with the PDA functions, etc., of the Touch, and he went and got that person.