K ended up getting me an iPod touch for Christmas this year (which she has since dubbed the stepford wife). Of course, I'd been going on and on for months about how much I wanted one... ever since the iphone came out really.
Now that I've had it a few weeks, I thought I'd write down a few thoughts about it.
Typing
I'm a big fan of the typing correction included in the touch OS. Although I'm getting better at typing on this thing, I'm not 100% there yet. I was never a big SMS person, so I never got used to typing with one finger. I don't mind the lack of tactile response at all - I'd type just as poorly on a blackberry.
Cut & paste would me nice, but in truth there has only been one or two occassions where I really needed it and couldn't get around it another way.
App selection
One of my initial concerns with iPod apps is that they'd end up creating the same giant collection of crap that the palm ecosystem created. I'm a bit sad to say that they did. Although there are many good apps out there, there's a tonne of garbage too. Granted, I've avoided the pay apps, since I don't want to start getting into those.
Battery life
I can't complain at all about the battery life, since I basically use this as a small, more portable version of my laptop. The laptop only gets four hours of battery life - the touch lasts pretty much a full day.
Again no complaints, really. About the only comment I have is that it would be nice to have a unified inbox instead of separate inboxes for each account.
Browsing
So nice, especially since I've experienced the suckage that is cellphone browsing. The only time I dislike the experience is when the site reverts to a mobile version (I'm looking at you food network).
So overall, I'm loving it. One of these days I might grab the iPhone SDK and build an app of my own.
Apps - I avoided 99% of the pay ones as well, until I found a couple that had features and bits that I liked (a gas app and a couple of photography apps) and realized that I spend 5x more on a cup of starbucks coffee than I do on the apps. It's definitely something you could get lost in :)
Email unified inbox - forward everything to gmail and attach tags to them as they come in.
Browsing - flash would be nice :\
App building - hell yes! If I hear one more story about someone making $20k a DAY I'm gonna scream.
Unfortunately forwarding to gmail isn't the perfect solution, for a couple of reasons. For one, I check my email from two other clients, and don't necessarily want to download the same emails on different accounts. I also don't want all my email to be sent from my gmail account, since I generally use it foe mailing lists and as a spam trap. More important though is that I'd like to also get work mail and for privacy reasons (since we sometimes deal with student data) I can't forward it to gmail. There is a unified inbox in the desktop mail app, and that's what I'd love to see moved over to the touch OS.