iPod Touch: The Future 1.0
November 7, 2007A new Apple reseller opened a shop in my local shopping mall. Unlike most of the department stores that sell Apple products here, this one was modeled loosely on proper American Apple Stores. The fittings were pristine and elegant, the sales people were friendly and not pushy, and best of all — I could play with the products as much as I liked.
So this was my first real hands-on look at the iPod Touch. It was almost uncanny; I’d read so much about it, and the similar iPhone, and seen so many demo movies, that when I did get to play it was being re-united with an old friend.
I tapped and swiped and pinched my way around the interface and found that, just as Andy Ihnatko had said, it all seemed so totally seamless – and obvious. I appear to have a lot of luck with hand held devices: the keyboard worked like a charm for me. I hammered away two-thumbed in the Notes section of a contact, completing a whole paragraph before glancing up at my handiwork.
There were only two errors. Incredible.
That’s it: I’m officially in love. It’s that “Seeing the 128k original Mac for the first time and realizing that this is the future” moment all over again.
So did you buy it? Or are you waiting for the iPhone to be available in your area?
I did play with an iPod touch here in Bologna, Italy, but I could not explore much (the store had no wifi and they had put no data on it). I should have tried the contact note, as you did. In any case, I’d rather wait for the iPhone as I want to be able to edit calendars (without hacking the device) and having mail as well is very tempting.
Comment by Alan Schmitt — November 7, 2007 @ 2:05 pm
No, I didn’t buy it, but I will soon. This demo unit had a little bit of everything on it, and a very good wifi connection. I was most impressed with Safari; I naturally checked out this site and it renders well.
Web based email via gmail worked very well, and will be a good compromise for me as when the iPhone eventually arrives here in New Zealand – the plan would cost a fortune.
When the Newton first came out I immediately sprang for one and then each subsequent model was so much better that I sprang for those too (here we go again)!
Comment by andrewsmactips — November 7, 2007 @ 3:13 pm