I'm going to get a touch over an iphone for a couple of reasons. First off, I don't feel like switching carriers. All my friends have verizon, so it would end up costing me a lot more money per month just to use the phone the amount I am now. Secondly, the touch does everything the iphone can minus the phone portion (at least, that's what I hear - that they can both run the same exact apps), which in essence makes the touch a nice pda for me as a college student, and an ipod too.