So, I decided that charging my iPod via Laptop’s USB port was beginning to be a pain, and the firewire charger from my iPod mini just needed replacing. For a start it had the old “clips” on the dock connector to stop it from coming unplugged. The result of these “troubles” is quite simple really, a brand new replacement

Naturally, this came in a nice appley box. Admittedly £20 for a charger is a bit on the steep side, but I had an Argos voucher which needed using, bringing the price to around a tenner. Much more reasonable. To my surprise I found that it came with a brand new USB cable, a nice little bonus which will make a handy spare, but I suppose it is justified given the price.

One of the most amazing things about these chargers is the size, compared to my MacBook charger it’s tiny, compared to my old iPod charger it’s tiny, simply brilliant!

The novelty of the touch screen is beginning to wear off, and now I’m beginning to notice some things with it (not faults, just little annoyances).

First, the calendar issue, I’ve stopped using GCal, and started using outlook. Yes, it is great that it syncs, but, I want to be able to add/edit the calendar from within my iPod, which apparently is coming soon. Also I’d quite like an email client, maybe the iPhones one, as now I understand what IMAP is, it’s quite useful for getting everything working together. Another thing, a notes application, just for writing notes & stuff, as I am getting quite good at using the on-screen keyboard. No doubt all of these things will be fixed though, maybe sometime around February 2008?

Yes, I know they are overpricced pieces of plastics, but after using one with my iPod mini for the past few years, I got rather used to it, and it was a convenient place to place my iPod. So now I’m after one for my new iPod. Trouble is they don’t seem to be in stock anywhere, except the Apple Store. And I don’t really want to pay £4.50 p&p on top of the £35 price for it. They’re out of stock at play.com, eBuyer doesn’t have them, can’t find the new version on amazon, and dabs doesn’t have them either.

Same problem with all the following: Argos, Comet and Currys.

So I’m out of ideas. Maybe I’ll just have to wait, and what annoys me is the ridiculous prices of accesories. £269 for iPod I think is reasonable, £19 for 6 socks, definately not, £35 for dock & remote. Not at all. But, people must be buying them, it seems an unnecessary premium for stuff that must cost nothing to make. Although controlling iPod by remote will be good

Also it seems like a Friday today for some reason, must be because I am attempting to do homework, but it has taken me (so far) a few hours to do just a relatively simple piece of physics. Must concentrate harder.

It’s just amazing, the speed of it is loads quicker than iTunes can ever be on my computer, just absolutely amazing!

Safari is great, surprisingly browsing the web on a small screen doesn’t seem a problem, as it is easy to zoom in and travel around.

Youtube – excellent, even youtube results found on google open up in it. It’s a nice, easy to use interface. Admittedly it is a bit of a shame that you can’t log in to see favourites etc.

iTunes Store – excellent! i’ve not actuall purchased anything from there, but even just listening to stuff works brilliantly, and is instant.

Calculator – It works, good enough for me!

Video player – works very good, no delays or anything when opening & fast forwarding videos.

Music – Cover flow is very nice, and a good way to randomly choose what you want to listen to! Also the various sorting options are great.

Pictures – Fun to play around with, dragging stuff about & zoooming in.

Things I wish it had:

• Notes of some sort, it would be nice to be able to just write stuff on it, after all my old ipod had the ability to read text files!
• Add to the calendar – how hard can it be?
• Mail – again, how hard can it be?
• Flash support – I can view PDF’s, so why not flash files?
• Support for 3rd party apps – why not? Would open it up for loads more functionality

That’s all, back to playing

Update: Some More Things

• Syncing of Podcasts over WiFi – would be great when away from computer for a longish period of time
• Films/TV Shows from iTMS – although I suppose youtube pretty much has this area covered.

It’s finally getting here, after almost 4 weeks of waiting! Last time I checked it was in “Liege Euro Hub”, somewhere in Belgium. Expected to be delivered tomorrow, so that’ll give me something to do tomorrow night I’ve just been sorting out all my music in iTunes, some was at an unnecessarily high bit-rate, so everything now is at 192kbps (that was higher than that before).

Only problem is that Apple don’t seem to have released much for it yet. I was wanting to buy a decent case, although the only thing on the apple store are the socks (do look rather nice though), and I don’t want to buy a 99p silicone case and wait for it to come from Hong Kong. Maybe protective wrapping will be a viable option for the time being