I don't agree with that at all. I think the iPod Touch (iTouch) will never have an integrated WWAN. I think that's the domain of the iPhone.

Instead, I see the iTouch essentially being like the NIT: it is an internet device that depends on getting a WWAN from some other device. It may at some point get bluetooth for DUN/PAN, but it might not. I think instead it will depend upon Wifi enabled devices (like the WinMo hack that allows you to share your phone's wifi as an access point instead of as a client). Though, personally, I wont ever buy an iTouch until it has a physical* keyboard of some kind (slide out, bluetooth, cabled, etc.), as well as non-jailbroken ssh and vnc clients (and if those things happen, Nokia should get really nervous).

(* though, an 8" screen version of the iTouch, with split virtual thumb keyboards, like the one on the Samsung Q1 (pre-Ultra), especially if they're translucent so you can mostly see the underlying application while you type, might make me change my mind about it needing to be a physical keyboard)


The iPhone is the "all-in-one" approach, an the iTouch is the "many devices" approach. That's why the iTouch is really the NIT's competitor, and not the iPhone.

It gets muddy, though, when you add WiMAX to the equation. Once you've added a WWAN, the NIT sort of half way moves into the iPhone's market. So the non-WWAN NITs compete with the iTouch, and a WWAN NIT is in a grey area between the iTouch and the iPhone.