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I picked up an iPod Touch at CostCo today. Primarily, I'm just looking at it as a replacement for my Nano, which I'll probably be selling to a friend for a few bucks. I like it a lot, though there are a few little annoyances. Here's a couple of bullet lists of good and bad stuff:

Good

• The interface, in general, looks nice and works well. The multi-touch stuff works well.
  
• Safari works well on most sites, and there are a lot of sites that are formatted either for the iPhone/iPod Touch specifically, or more generally for mobile devices, that work really well. The browser on the PSP, by comparison, doesn't work nearly as well.
  
• The screen looks pretty good. I synced a few episodes of Heroes down to the device, and they look nice.
  
• QuickTime and PDF support in Safari. (I was actually pleasantly surprised about the PDF support. I wasn't expecting it.)
  

Bad

• Since there aren't any physical controls, I'm not going to be able to use it without looking at it. That's something that I take for granted on the Nano. I don't think it'll be too much of an annoyanyce, but we'll see how that works out.
  
• There's one stuck pixel on the screen. It's not really obvious, except on a solid black background, though.
  
• The keyboard is a bit of a pain. It works, and I'll probably get used to it, but I don't think I'll ever be using it to write blog posts or long e-mails. (It's definitely better than typing on my Moto SLVR though.)
  
• No Flash support. That kills some web sites that rely on it.
  
• You can't use a stylus on the screen, the way you would on a Palm. That kills some potential applications that won't work with only finger controls, like maybe a drawing app or handwriting recognition.
  

We won't see (approved) third-party apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch until next year. I'm hoping for a few key apps. First, a note-taking app. If I can get that, then I can probably (finally) dump my Palm i705. I use the Palm primarily for contacts, calendar, and notes. The Touch already has contacts & calendar; if they can just add notes, then they've got everything I need in a PDA. I'd like to see a good offline e-book reader, too. I don't know if I'd use it a lot, but I'd like to have it. And maybe a couple of games that make innovative use of the multi-touch interface. Heck, even a simple solitaire game would be nice.

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