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I gave up, there were too many missing features, and while I was happy with the device itself, I felt that I was missing a lot. Today I went to my Apple store where the employee that helped me was extremely courteous, she took back my iPod touch asked me if everything was ok with the unit, which it was, and sold me an iPhone.

What made me decide was a recent visit to a friend of mine, he is not technology savvy so the iPod touch was the best thing he has ever seen. As I started giving a demo, I felt like I was letting his expectations down but in reality it was me the one not happy with it. I try to show him a video, rapidly noticing that the full experience needed audio. I was not letting him use my earbuds, either there is no speaker on the iPod touch.

I have him in my contacts, when he saw his picture he didn’t like it. Of course I was missing a camera to fix hit contact photo on the spot. I show them pictures and while the slide show was running there was no music on it. As a Mac geek that I an, I felt that I was not really enjoying what the iPod the way I could enjoy an iPhone.

The last couple of thing that finally made me change my device was the ability of pausing songs and/or videos from the headset. It took me almost all day today to decide the funny thing was when I compare the drive space, the 16GB iPod touch gives you only 14.7GB of space to play with. My iPhone now is 8GB and I had 7.27 available, the iPod touch does not have all the applications that the iPhone. And don’t bring up the OS or the space difference of bits and bytes because this is not a hard drive base device. This is flash and 1GB should be 1GB.

Do you think I made the right choice? Would you have done the same? I’m happy now, I’ve been playing with my iPhone all afternoon and I love it. I activated using the 999-99-9999 trick and pick the cheapest plan, my contract with another carrier expires in November when I guess I will move to AT&T. I feel so down because I really didn’t want to deal with this carrier at all, but my geekiness defeated my reason. If you are asking yourself why didn’t I just hack it, I don’t like throwing my money in the trash.