Finally!

Well, I'm happy to now be the owner of a brand new shiny (with fingerprints on the back) 15 gig iPod! I have one word: Wow. This is officially the coolest gadget I've ever used. The first thing that struck me about it when I opened the box (which was the coolest packaging ever) was how small it was! Lifting it out of the box I marvelled at the perfect silver back which reflected my face. It makes it look really cool, but fingerprints and scratches (I have one already) can be a problem. Despite that, the smudges and scratches are only visable in bright light conditions. Even the remote has this shiny metal on it. I don't know how often I will use the remote, considering it makes the cord a fair bit longer and leaves it dangling. Time will tell. Some other observations:

- The actual interface to the iPod is amazing. Finding any song on it is a matter or seconds. The scroll wheel rocks and the touch sensitive buttons are great.

- The backlight is extremely cool. Especially in a dark room the screen light and red buttons look very good.

- The dock is useful, especially with the line-out cable for hooking up to the stereo.

- I downloaded the app Pod2Go. It lets me read RSS subscriptions as notes and weather amoung other things. Movies didn't work for Toronto, unfortunately.

- Did I mention it's small and looks great?

- Syncing with iTunes is nice and easy. Just plug it in and it works. Likewise, syncing my Address Book and Calendars is easy with iSync. Now that I actually have a use for the app I will say that it is quite nice.

- Using it in Firewire disk mode is nice and easy too. Just plug it in and it shows up on the desktop.

That's all I can think of for now. I love this little thing, and I think I'll get a lot of use out of it. I might post some pictures later, but I'm sure everyone has seen a million pictures already.