Well I am here in the Regents Street store. I love this place if I am honest. The reason I came this afternoon was to play with the new iPod touch, and my God was it worth it! They are fantastic. Everything I knew and loved about multi-touch technology is true, and I think that everyone should play with it. I found some things a little difficult to get used to, and found typing worked best if you used your index finger, as thumbs tend to obscure the keyboard and you end up hitting the wrong key…

Another thing I couldn’t figure out, although that may just have been me, was how to click links when you have zoomed in on a webpage. It seemed no matter how much I tapped the link it wouldn’t open… This may just have been a glitch on that particular touch, because I tried another and it seemed to work. I was slightly disappointed by being unable to click the links, as I wanted to try posting to the blog on the iPhone, but sadly couldn’t get to the log in screen on WordPress!

The queue to even get to the iPod touchs was amazing, and I happily stood in awe for 20 minutes to get my hands on one (which I subsequently did a second time, because there were a few things I didn’t try the first time!). One thing I did notice, was that many people were coming up to the guy selling them straight from the display stand, and asking him if it was the iPhone. He was then having to explain that it wasn’t. That said people didn’t seem to be dissuaded, and they were flying out the store – from the looks of the amounts left in the case, they were selling in roughly equal quantities.

Will I be getting a touch? Probably yes – I was (and still am) tempted by the iPhone, but the smaller capacity, combined with the lack of 3G (and EDGE depending on coverage!) makes it a bit pointless. The only thing (and I know this sounds stupid) that is making me want an iPhone more than a touch is the ability to edit and add calendar events on the iPhone, which has been taken out of the touch. This is something I can already do on my SLVR in a very limited capacity, and I was looking forward to managing my calendar on the new iPod… One thing I wonder, is if once people are able to write successfully to the iPod touch’s drive (through hacks etc.) whether they will be able to copy the iPhone’s calendar app over to it, considering they are basically the same device running the same software. We will see!

P.S. See pics from our trip here, and here.