My mother joined the Cult of Steve shortly before I did, buying the same Spring refreshed BlackBook.  She has been a long-time Palm user.  She recently retired from her public school district job, but will be continuing working as an educational consultant for National Geographic.  Upon her retirement, her IT department took back the most recent Palm that she was using, and although she has an older one she could use, she mentioned buying whatever the current model was.  I suggested that an iPod Touch may be a better choice as a stand-alone PDA.

My initial thought is that an iPod Touch will sync with iCal and Address Book.app without any Third party software.  I believe the Palm still needs Palm Desktop/HotSync manager to sync using iSync.  It seems that a bunch of people are doing this, so I need to read a bit more on it before suggesting a little more strongly.

Now I couldn't even get one if I wanted one.

Carl is considering purchasing a Mac, so we decided to pop down to the local Apple Store while out at lunch.  Much to our surprise, there were approximately sixty people in line waiting for their iPhone 3G.

After looking at the iMac for quite a while, we were able to spend a bit of quality time with the display iPhone's (white models) and it does feel a bit smaller than the old one.  Unfortunately the placement of the security cable, made it really difficult to get a good understanding of the feel in the hand.  Once again I was reminded how nice the software is.  I still had a very hard time with the keyboard.  The other thing I wonder is if the volume control buttons are available via the SDK.  The are placed quite nicely for use as an eBook reader, but it they don't work, it means flipping pages by touching the screen.

I'm still not buying one.

No, I didn't buy one, however I'm really starting to see them out and about. Saturday, I saw two obvious ones, both browsing in Safari, and using all the nifty touch abilities those things have.

Interestingly enough, they both had bump type cases on them (one clear acrylic, and the other a black rubber.)  I guess thin isn't as important as protection.