Apple iPod touch 2nd Generation (32 GB) MP3 Player

I was excited about having an iPhone without the phone, but the iPod touch isn't really that: for one, it doesn't support all the same apps as an iPhone (facebook for one, and youtube videos wouldn't load!) The wifi also wouldn't connect in my house, while my laptop picked it up. But most importantly, the part that counts... the music (it IS an iPod, after all) is way more difficult to operate than my old wheel iPod. There's an outside volume control, but most annoyingly, no button for skipping ahead, so if you want to go to the next song you have to press the menu button, slide to unlock, and THEN skip ahead. Not convenient if you're exercising.

Also, making an On the Go playlist is inordinately complicated: you have to go into the playlist, hit "Edit" and then go look for what you want to add... no easy holding down feature like the Classic. And if you want to look up a song by title while editing On the Go, you have to scroll ALL the way through instead of being able to jump to a song, something so inconvenient I don't understand why. I also don't understand why, with all the fanciness, you can't find a song by typing in the title like in iTunes. For all the faux-computer style of the touch, it doesn't really do much with it.

I still haven't been able to try out my Nike + iPod, which is the most exciting part, and a lot of those great games they show on the commercials are apparently over sensitive and not as fun. But I'm hoping I'll find some apps that work with it that make it worth the money I spent.