iPhone as music server remote control

Tbone,
The palm is definately not 1/2 as cool as the itouch. The itouch looks sooo much better than an old crappy palm pilot.

I geuss i'm a litlle confused. Say, if you want to play your playlists, you can't just grab your itouch and control itunes? You need a seperate keyboard monitor?

What is the itouch for then? Also, what else can you do with the itouch?

Playback is on the iPod Touch. If you want to record, make new playlists, or otherwise manipulate iTunes, you would need a keyboard (and something to see what you were manipulating presumably).

The iPod Touch is really cool. I got one over the weekend and finished setting it up last night. It is great. As an ipod, it is very ergonomic, and the screen (combined with the zoom-in and zoom-out touchscreen "push-pull" technology) makes it easy to deal with things like webpages (and my web-based email).

I will try to manipulate iTunes on the Mac when I have a free moment later this week.

As to the what else... it has wifi connectivity and the Safari browser (you could theoretically control your complete iTunes implementation on the iPod Touch if you downloaded directly over the wifi connection and did not have a PC but space is limited to 16GB for the moment). Like the more recent iPods it has video, photo, and music capability with a big screen. It also has a few other apps and there are a bunch more which are downloadable (some games, some mini apps) and given what is supposed to become a more open architecture, I expect more out of it going forward.

And the touchscreen is about the coolest thing going...

Apple has a patent for the iPhone/iTouch to this effect:
"Make them work as remote controls for audio-visual servers".
Wouldn't surprise me a bit if we have that capability soon
via a software update.

Thanks T-bone,
I appreciate your doing all the groundwork with the itouch. I will get one when i get back on my feet after this remodel!