Dropping Firewire to cater to some Windows wonks is just too much.

BTW, did you mean 120 gig iPod Classic is the only Firewire-compatible model?

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Eric

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence. - Will Rogers

Looks like the 2G iPod Classic is more bang for your buck as far as storage is concerned! I still have the 30GB iPod Video, though with how scratched it is (gotta love the glossy front) I think it's time to get a new one.

If all you care about is storage, then the math is pretty easy. However, in my consideration between a Nano and a Touch, I considered also...

Screen Size
Aspect Ratio (iTouch is better for widescreen)
Wifi Access
Application-ready

With those additional perks, to me, the extra $5 per gigabyte was quite worth it for my 16gb iPod Touch.

16GB iPod touch = $18.69
16GB iPod nano = $12.44

Removing firewire is a cost savings measure and, as you may have noticed, the new nano is $50 less expensive then the previous firewire-power supporting nano. It's even more substantially less for the iPod Touch. For most people that obviously works out great. The only people for whom it would be bad is if they have an older and expensive to replace device that provides firewire power, such as a speaker system. If what you have is something like, say, a car (firewire-based) power + line-out device, you're still going to save money even though you'd have to buy a new such device.

In fact that's our exact situation. New 8 GB iPod nano ($139.95 shipped from PC Connection) to replace broken iPod mini + Griffin Autopilot power + line-out ($30.85 shipped from Amazon) totals $170.80. I'll take that any day over an 8 GB iPod nano alone for $200. Our "SiK imp" was a piece of junk anyway and was half falling apart (always was) and this new one even has pause/play/etc. controls on it. Bonus.

I Fring-ed it without earphone mic and guess what.
I heard a repeat sound of myself but it didn't goes to Fring.

Does that mean it actually has built-in mic but not enable
and probably will with future firmware updates?
(so Apple have excuse to charge again, hardware been shipped but not enable... gosh)