wiki.zibet.net: Apple Ipod Touch

The following are a few thoughts on the 8GB Ipod Touch (3G).

First impressions

The Ipod cannot do anything before it has been connected to a computer running a new version of iTunes -- that sucks, it should be possible to do everything by wifi.
The keyboard has very small keys in horizontal mode -- too small for my large fingers. It is not possible to use a stylus.
The large vertical keyboard is not an OS-thing, so depending on what app or screen you are on, it might not be accesible.
There is no microphone, which make the voice recording feature pretty much useless...
All the hardware is very nice.

I have not used itunes since the first time, it works surprisingly well without it (but then again, I do not sync music, videos etc.).
The killer applications for me is InstaPaper? and Simplenote.
I love it!

Dropbox (free). Filesharing, but most important, pdf-reader.
InstaPaper (free) is a great app to save webpages for later (on a computer) and then fetch them with a button on the ipod, to read them offline. However, the "Read Later"-bookmarklet does not work in chrome. The free edition is limited to the ten latest pages. I have bought the application (InstaPaper Pro, 30dkk), the "killer" feature in the pro edition is the ability of the program to remember the last position in a text.
Simplenote (free), notebook with sync to server accessible from a browser
SmartGo (18dkk), http://smartgo.com/en/smartgo.htm

Games: DoodleJump (6dkk), Rope'n'fly 2 (lite is free)
Google reader, wave, and calendar (mobile) works great (in the browser)
Amazon, Imdb, Wikiamo (wikipedia) are good apps to access the references. They are all free.
TED (free) is a good interface to TED talks and audio (but the archive interface is not impressive, it is a simple list)
Stanza (free) is a great ebook reader with direct access to project Guthenberg. An application is necessary to insert random ebooks, I like InstaPaper better for the ability to insert html etc. directly from the browser.