"for whatever reason" usually amounts to (in the US anyway) the fact that AT&T is the WORST cell service, despite their endless run of ads claiming how they have the most coverage and best service. Apple made a big mistake going exclusive with them as a carrier, because all those iphones have pretty much brought their network to its knees. Now there is talk of bandwidth surcharges to try to get people to use their data plans less. (not to mention the AVERAGE bill from an iphone customer per month is 95 dollars, more than most people spend on various other utilities)

Anyway, back to the question at hand, which relates to my above rant, is that a phone is a phone, and a music player is a music player, and as nice as the iphone is from a UI standpoint, I still don't believe in the unification between phones and music players. Not yet anyway. My phones battery is way to important (and crappy) to be using it up listening to music.

The biggest downside to the iPod touch is that it does have a decent web browser, but you only get WiFi of course, since no phone for a data plan.