I was naughty, I purchased a new iPod the 16Gb iPod Touch and I think we are going to be married, yes I love it that much.

Not that it’s perfect mind! I still want wireless sync (it can’t be that difficult the Apple TV does it for gawds sakes!) and why cant I download podcasts via the iTunes WiFi store when I am on the move? A few more apps would be nice too. And at some point I want it to hit 100Gbish so I can store all my tracks on there. This is a flash device and the change from magnetic media to solid state will happen albeit not in an instant and I am aware of that, not that I can’t push though.

Those small points aside the product is completed, yes unlike certain operating systems (Vista & OS X Leopard) this product actually feels finished and it works beautifully. Coverflow actually flows, Why doesnt it do that on the Mac or PC with their huge memory and processors yet it does on this dinky thing? Why am I complaining, it works people and its delicious!  LOL

I am going to give myself a wrist injury cos flipping this thing in and out of widescreen is as much fun as CD drawers when they first came out, remember, open/close/open/close/open/close. LOL You just want to do it, BECAUSE YOU CAN!!!!

The browser is as good as the rest, you can zoom in at the click of the smooth and sleek and tough screen (feels like glass, so dont push too hard) and everything can be slid around with a slide of the finger on the screen.

Of course like every touch interface in the world, you will need to keep wiping it, cos your fingers are grubby (natural oils) and you probably didnt wash after you came out of the toilet, I know what you people are like (euch! LOL) but thankfully you get a cleaning cloth, iPod branded so you’ll be cleaning those 1.99 garage forecourt sunglasses with it to try and look cool this summer!

One thing that I can see being simple but very useful, there’s a calculator in the thing, and it doesn’t need a degree to make it work unlike the one in my mobile (how many *’s to divide?), so thats handy.

A great calendar that syncs with my Mac anyway and also a contacts list that syncs also for when your mobile battery runs out and you need to use a landline (connecting you to the continent sir, go ahead caller)

Got access to free WiFi, not a lot of that around in the UK unless you like hanging around McDonalds car parks (the police have my number down, hee hee) but you can view YouTube widescreen on this thing and as half of my words have been “screen” I guess I should say that that is now workable for TV shows and Movies and the colour saturation is out of this world compared to the older iPods.

This thing is slimmer than a supermodel and a hell of a lot less temperamental, but seriously the new wave of iPods is so slim and sleek they amaze me. Even the new iPod Nano is a wonder to behold. The only thing holding back it getting slimmer is the earphone socket, so I guess bluetooth is the way it will go and there is a lot of discussion on the net as to wether the Touch can do bluetooth, I think it probably can but they might never enable it to push you to the iPhone, only time will tell.

And on the subject of the iPhone, I am not an O2 customer and after my previous attempts with them I don’t want to be. £1,000 for an unlocked version is a bit steep and I wouldn’t walk around with £1,000 in a wad waving it around the streets so I chose not to go for the iPhone…well at least for now. 3G is around the corner and if I could merge the iPhone and the Three Skype phone (which I also bought recently) together I would never need to replace my shoes as my feet would never touch the ground.

One downside, yes there is but one, I didn’t have a great experience with the iTunes Wifi Store, thought I would give it a try with one track to begin with and see how it all went together with transferring that track back to my Mac’s iTunes. Well I was able to browse easily and find a track I wanted, downloaded in next to no time and I was listening to a new track right there on the iPod with nothing else involved, excellent. Then I synced my iPod and the track disappeared. Not on the iPod, not on the Mac, not anywhere. I spoke to Apple support who to be fair replied within just a couple of hours and gave me a free download of that track again and some advice on what to do next time but I keep thinking, should I need advice, shouldn’t it just do it? Bit disappointed in that, though it might be a known thing and i’m sure they will get it fixed, it really was the one solitary negative of the whole iPod Touch experience, everything else was very much a plus.

So on the whole I would definately recommend the iPod Touch. Go get one!