After a month with my iPod Touch

There are a million reviews out there already, but I figured since I got so many emails, IMs, and other comments when I mentioned wanting an iPhone/Touch, that I owed you a follow up post covering my thoughts.

First of all, I bought an iPod Touch, not an iPhone, so perhaps some of these comments could vary, but I think they hold across both.

Second, I barely use the Touch for music!  For me it is an awesome mobile internet device and photo sharing portfolio.  The fact that it is an iPod is far less important to me.  How funny is that!

So here are some of my thoughts, not in an particular relevance order:

Positives

Negatives

- The incredible overall polish of the user experience.  From the way you can scroll between homepages and the icons just float across, to the way icons wiggle when you change their location, to the pin drop animation on maps, to the "rotating dial" used to set the time on the clock, to the way large pages gently scroll up and down the screen, etc, etc, etc... you just want to play with this thing.  I find myself moving the home pages back and forth, or rotating photos, just to watch they way it works! - The wi-fi finder is great, why is it so much harder to set up and access networks in Microsoft Windows? - Photo viewing is fantastic.  The pictures look great, and it is FUN to look at them on the device. - Safari is incredible.  The ease and accuracy of zooming into web pages is excellent.  It seems to know exactly where to zoom when you tap.  (on a picture, on a columns, on a frame, on a link, etc)  Many web sites even now have iPhone optimized versions. - I can't image having this device without it being jailbreak'd.  I've added dozens of applications, games, themes, system tools, etc. - The Stock and Weather apps are fantastic. - My springboard is NewsGator, PlanetLotus, iTweet, and Gmail.  These four apps allow me to stay very connected.  (too much at times!) - iSolitaire, Backgammon, and Tris (a Tetris clone) are very very addictive.

- The lack of copy/paste (clipboard) drives me nuts a dozen times a day - I wish I could pause on a letter on the keyboard to capitalize it, similar to the way it works on a Blackberry. - I wish I could add custom auto-correct entries, similar to the way it works on a Blackberry.  For example, I'd like to type "myblog" and have "http://www.alanlepofsky.net" filled in. - When you are at the start of a line of text (i.e. cursor before the first character) I wish the delete key would delete the next character.   Today it only acts as "backspace". - I wish I could search in Contacts.  ex: type Ala... and have all the matching entries filtered. - I wish I could tag photos, and have a tag cloud explorer to navigate to photos, instead of just having them sorted into albums. - I'd like the World Clock and Weather apps to synch the cities that I enter, so I don't have to do it twice.  Better yet, I wish world clock would also show me the current weather for the city. - It should have a built in speaker. - I'd like to be able to close a web page, without having to first click on the right bottom corner, then click the red X on the thumbnail.   That is too many steps. - It is silly to having to jailbreak. - Safari really needs to support Flash. - I'd like to be able to synch Contacts, Calendar, and Journal with Lotus Notes.  (today I export ical and vcard files from Notes to my Mac.  Then I synch from there.  This is a manual process, but at least it works pretty easily.)