Well worth the 10 bucks the iTouch users will have to pay for it. It’s worth it just for the landscape mode keyboard and cut and paste! Cut and paste really should have been a part of the original OS, it was a stupid design flaw to leave it out. Unfortunately it won’t be released until June 17.
Even without cut and paste the iTouch has been an incredibly helpful tool. I don’t have to schlep a Bible around with me because I can use the one on the iTouch (though I miss the Bible program on my palm, it had a better integration of the English, Greek and Hebrew Bibles). I don’t have to power up my laptop in the morning because I can surf the net on my iTouch. The alarm feature saved my bacon this Saturday when it went off letting me know that I was about to miss a meeting. I can watch videos on it with no eye strain (and without my glasses) and it’s much easier to download James White and Hugh Hewitt podcasts on it (I had to manually download the podcasts to my PC and then copy them to MP3 player or palm, very time consuming). I always have a novel to read when I’m stuck somewhere thanks to the Kindle app and if I’m really bored I have a couple games I can play. I can also brush up on my Greek and Hebrew vocabulary with flash card apps.
And this weekend my iTouch froze when I started playing solitaire, the app worked before so I ‘m not sure why it froze the system to the point I couldn’t even turn the darn thing on or wake it up by syncing with iTunes. It was dead! So I restored it and had no trouble restoring my data but when I restored my non-Apple apps I was afraid I was going to lose data. like my Kindle books but everything was there, all my books and even my bookmarks. Not bad!
If that had happened to my palm, it would have taken me forever to load everything back on and I’m not sure that it would have saved everything the way that iTunes does. I’m not even sure how to restore the palm to the factory settings.