Opinions - Creative Zen or ipod Touch

[sillytuna]

I'm not easily impressed but I'm loving my iTouch. Best gadget I've had in years. I used it constantly at GDC last week. The wifi support is superb and very quick/easy to use (unlike certain other machines), the interface fantastic, google maps a godsend - and it caches enough data for you to not need to be online whilst walking around a city - video playback is wonderful, I could go on.

Oh, it plays music too.

It isn't perfect. iTunes is, to be frank, rubbish. For example, annoyingly it insists on syncing photos - not just copying to/from - which is utterly stupid. The on-device software has a great user interface but sometimes lack even basic features I'd expect even Apple to support - e.g. custom mail folders on Pop3, better syncing between notes/diary/contacts.

A colleague also insists he can't do without a "home" screen showing his tasks/calendar for the day, as he has on his windows mobile device.

Most of the issues I expect to be solved by 3rd party vendors though.

I expect to buy an iPhone once it's 3G and has a decent camera. My N95 has a camera that rocks - Apple need to get close to that.

(my previous mp3 player was a Zen, but gadget-wise I also have an N95, numerous modern Samsung handsets, and an Orange SPV)

[Kemper_Boyd]

Is the iPhone and iTouch more or less exactly the same machine, with the obvious exception of the phone-part?

Yes but the iphone has a better screen apparently - http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/tested ... 299774.php

I'd be very surprised if that is by design. Different batches of either device
are likely to get screens from different sources, or simply a good or bad batch.