techguy911 :
Ipod touch might be a nice mp3 player but at the price of a 16gb you can buy an archos 605 wifi 160gb which has a larger screen 800x480 pixel display, according to archos can do 720p, and no file conversion needed, plays xvid,divix, mpeg4.
Besides buy the pvr dock and you can plug the unit into your big screen tv that has a qwerty remote control and records right from your cablebox or satdish and you can watch movies on your big screen tv.
Totally gotta go for the 605 WiFi. Absolutely a better product. Unlike the iPod touch it offers space to, you know, store videos and files. What's the point of buying a portable video player which doesn't have enough space for your music collection, let alone your pictures, personal files (whoops, I forgot, you can't use it as a storage device) and some videos? The 605 WiFi can store 100 movies, 1.4 GB DVD-resolution and in DivX or XviD (you know, exactly the sort of thing you might actually have on your computer), and still have, left over, 20% more space than the entire iPod touch has.
This was a really, really, REALLY pointless review. The only things it offers which Apple's site doesn't is pointing out that the iPod touch screen can smudge (gasp), the Nano is small (fancy that) and that displaying multiple images in 3D space with fading reflections on a device a smaller than a pad of Post-It notes is slow (who would've thunk it?).
There are two things I really take issue with, though. "It's impossible not to find this model appealing" and "It is impossible to criticize Apple when it comes to its devices' designs and interfaces". Guess what? I don't find either of those products appealing, and yeah, it's entirely possible to criticize their designs and interfaces. Hell, you yourself did it when you pointed out that CoverFlow makes the Nano's interface less responsive, the Nano is too small, and the touch screen can smudge. Those are design and interface issues.
People who buy this trash disgust me. Time and time again, Apple goes nice and slow with developing and rolling out new products. A touch screen on a cellphone, what a novel idea, I'm sure there weren't already DOZENS of other models in the years leading up to 2007. And a touch screen on an MP3 player, I'm sure that Archos hadn't been doing that since 2006 and before. Being able to play videos on your MP3 player too, wow, that's an amazing feature, nobody tried that trick before fall '05! People keep buying iTrash because "they're just so easy" and "the interface is really nice", because apparently, picking a song or playlist by artist, genre, album, year, etc is SUCH a difficult task unless you have a sliding menu animation.
You buy your iPod though, and give Apple more profits to waste on ads and minor aesthetics, while starving the other media player providers, who are the first to incorporate features like color screens, touch screens, cameras, wireless web browsing, 800x480 displays, and the novel combination of large screens with lots of storage.
The existence and changes of the iPod are actually damaging to the entire portable media player industry. The iPod keeps getting smaller and smaller, at the expense of other features and attributes. If somebody has seen an iPod touch, and I then show them the Archos 605 WiFi (which is somewhere around 3/4 inches thick), they say they don't want it because it's way too large to carry around, even if it does offer that 800x480 screen, lots of useful codec capabilities, a touch screen, and 160 GB for the price of 16 GB on an iPod touch. When I point out to them that the 605 WiFi is about the size of a DS Lite, which tens of millions of people are delighted to carry around in their pockets, they inevitably say "Ehhhh... mffff... it's just too big...".
Do the world a favor. Spend a half hour looking for a better competing product, and then 15 minutes reading the manual for said product. You'll get features Apple won't offer until '08 or '09 (if ever) and at prices below their less-equipped models, and in the process you'll give a little money to companies who are actually trying hard to innovate. Every Apple product is part of a monopoly that is almost entirely unresponsive to the features and prices of other products, and every iPod sold is a vote of confidence to the company which says you value an animated, anti-aliased user interface over timely release of new features.