For those of you keeping up with my iPod adventures, here’s a world-changing update:

After a few days with the iPod Classic, I decided to return it and switch to the iPod Touch.

My main reasons for the switch were:
- It turns out 16GB of storage isn’t as restrictive as I had expected
- The promise of an API for the touch and iphone will make the device more useful in the future.

First, negatives:
- Lack of google maps and email applications is frustrating. I’m hoping this will change once the API is out.
- It’s a lot to pay for a relatively small amount of storage.
- It’s not easy to change the volume if you’re not in the music app, and you can’t change the volume at all without looking at the screen. They should add a button for this.

Despite all this, I’m very satisfied with the device so far. The interface is, as I’d imagine you’ve heard, really good. The interactions with the touch screen are amazingly easy to learn. When I got in my car to use my touch screen GPS, I started flicking the screen to scroll like I would an ipod, eventually realizing that it wanted me to use a scrollbar, which suddenly seemed primitive (what are we, Amish?).

The screen is very vibrant and is fine for many types of video, plus cover flow looks really cool on it. The web browser is quite usable, though I tend to only use sites that have special mobile versions (gmail, google local, facebook, etc). The web browser would be far, far more useful if it had Google Gears built-in so that apps could work offline, but maybe that’ll change sometime too.