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One major disappointment I didn’t cover in much detail in yesterdays iPod touch review is the restriction on regions of data input. With the iPhone, you have the ability to take notes, add contacts, write emails, browse the web, and add calendar events - with the iPod touch, you’re restricted to just browsing the web and adding contacts.

I find this rather lame on Apple’s part. Limiting the users ability to enter certain data into the iPod. I fully understand the reasoning to not include the Mail application on the iPod as it’s a hefty selling point for some on the iPhone, but leaving out something as simple yet as important as adding calendar events is foolish in my eyes.

If you’re going to block out features, do them all, or don’t do them at all. I don’t think something as small as the iPod having the ability to add calendar events will stop people from purchasing the iPhone - even if it did, what does Apple have to lose? Both devices are comparable in price.

In a perfect world, I’d like to have seen both the Notes and Mail applications included on the iPod touch. I fully understand they are somewhat “large” features on the iPhone, but Apple has always been about offering as much as possible to their customers, it was possible to offer these applications on the iPod touch - but they didn’t.

Taking a swing in direction, one thing Apple do have spot on are its frequent software updates which are delivered in a fashionable way, let’s hope the lack of these features are reversed in a future update.