As I previously wrote, the iPod touch continues to be a stellar device. Given it’s a phone-less version of the iPhone, I know why that device is so popular and gets rave reviews from even non-Mac users.

I’ve always wanted a shared calendar resource in the cloud that my wife and I could jointly manage and reference. I set up two Google Calendars. One for my wife, and one for me. I shared my calendar with hers. Entries and changes from both calendars show up on our respective calendars immediately when viewed in a Web browser. I set up the iPod touch to access her Google Calendar. With push enabled, the iPod’s Calendar app becomes a seamless extension of the Google Calendar. Updates are immediate in both directions. The iPod even color-codes entries from the different calendar sources.

Not surprisingly, this has sold me on the iPhone. Our contract on our current mobile service expires February 1. I’ll be snapping up iPhones at about that same time.

I don’t plan to abandon the Zune, though. I prefer to have media on one device and phone/data on another. But that’s just me. And the Zune software’s media management features are so much nicer than iTunes. By far!