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I just had an iPod touch in my little hands for the first time.

Honestly, this is one of the most beautiful pieces of industrial design I have seen so far. Thinner than I expected (though pretty much everything is thinner than my old 3rd gen iPod), the display very sharp and looks almost printed in a strange way (and I remember the first time I saw the display of Sony’s PSP, and I was impressed. Not anymore).

Of course, the software is equally impressive – especially the new “touch” features like flicking through Cover Flow, zooming with 2 fingers on a Safari page (which got me bursting out an embarrasing high pitched giggle) – which got me thinking – those Tablet-PCs are on the market for a couple of years now, and still they assume you are using them mostly like a normal laptop, with mouse and keyboard. Yes, you can draw on the screen, but in terms of User Interface, they did not trigger a bigger innovation cycle.One thing I noted is that I instinctively tried to scroll down a Safari page by dragging my finger down, instead of moving it up. The actual more intuitive, real life scenario would be the first one – to move the thing you are looking at up so you see whats below your current last line of text, rather than moving the frame you are looking through down.

The latter became standard throughout most of the applications used in an office context, with the notable exception of Adobe Reader and it’s hand icon.

So now I’m thinking again, if it makes sense to invest into a portable storage for all of my audio, photo and video assets AKA iPod Classic, with the predetermined physical breaking point of the harddisk; or a slicker, cooler, more accessible but less storage-potent version of it, the iPod touch? …