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The cool factor alone made this purchase seem like a no-brainer. It combines the most essential features of a PDA, the convenience of surfing the net without booting a laptop up, the ability to watch a movie on a screen you can actually see, game playing offerings, kindle book reading capabilities, photo viewing with a spectacular interface. And at it's core is your music playing device. Well, not exactly, and there-in lies the rub. After unpacking and sampling the myriad functions Apple built into this thin and elegant package I felt almost giddy. Until I plugged in my Shure 5C headphones to have a listen. Maybe the jack wasn't fully plugged in?! No, it was snug. Surely this had to be some kind of a joke. No, and stop calling me Shirley. The sound was flat, lifeless and frankly, just plain terrible. Every review I'd read listed as a Con, the fact that the sound was just average. If average means, sounds like listening to your neighbor's cheap stereo by pressing your ear to an adjoining wall, I'd say they nailed it. Much as I wanted to love the itouch and have it replace several other devices, the sound was so bad that the same day it was delivered, it was boxed up and returned to Amazon. I compared it to my older Toshiba Gigabeat side by side referencing the same songs and then trying my Sennheiser 650 cans as well and there was no doubt that sound quality fell off a cliff. It isn't even as good as a $50 Ipod Shuffle. As for the other wiz bang features; the ability to surf the web with the Safari browser seemed amazing and fast. But to see a web page requires constant stretching and moving. OK in a pinch, but far from a satisfying or useful web experience. The "keyboard" that pops up any time information needs to be typed is ridiculously cramped and I was constantly having to go back to correct things which was annoying to say the least. The same was true of writing a note in the Notes function. As far as the calendar feature, it was great to see the days of the month, but not for inputing information unless it was entered on your laptop first and then sync'd. The two games I purchased in my giddy frenzy looked terrific on the screen. But honestly, the same "fat finger" problem existed that interfered with play and even seeing what I was doing. The movie viewing feature looked promising though I didn't get that far. The glass screen was elegant but wound up smudged and greasy looking and had to be cleaned perpetually and the chrome back while beautiful would have been scratched beyond recognition in no time as others have documented and is assumed by now by all. I have a Kindle 2 which I love and imagined this would be an extension of that service. But the app doesn't work well and is clumsy and crude. Mail...here was a great feature that worked wonderfully...as long as you are in a hot spot of course. So my personal and unbiased opinion is that the itouch has wonderful promise and is very sexy and elegant. But if you want to enjoy music, it's a dismal failure. If you want to surf the web, a new "net book" is small, costs the same and is far superior for that and several of the other touted functions. I know that comparison is apples and oranges, but my advise as a consumer who looks for genuine utility as more important than, "gee wiz, this thing is so cool"; the itouch may satisfy the needs of some people, but in all honesty, it really does few things really well or even average.Get more detail about Apple iPod touch 16 GB (2nd Generation) NEWEST MODEL.