Never saw the point of the touch - always looked at it as a substitue for those that didn't want/couldn't afford the iPhone.... I mean it's a nice bit of kit for sure, but if you aren't in a wifi area, then it's useless as anything else other than an iPod, and as far as iPods go, with it's small capacity, I'm far happier with my 60gb iPod Video (which I want to change now for an 80gb version.....