Presumably it's the iPod Touch, which has nearly identical functionality to the iPhone, except you can't call people. Nearly all of the apps built for the iPhone will work on it.

Amateur Surgeon 2 is free today, give it a try.

There have been many ipod touch versions, it depends how old yours is as to what games it can play.

If you can play them, I recommend:

Waking Mars
Mage Gauntlet (it should run)
Ravenmark (this needs lots of ram)
Perfect Cell (also free for a short time now)
Jetpack Joyride (also free)

If you like pinball the three best releases are:
Zen Pinball
Pinball Arcade (by farsight, they remake real world tables)
Pinball HD collection

For niche entertainment try out the Gamebook Adventures titles by Tinman Gaming (choose your own adventure novels with dice). They just released a Judge Dredd one, and official Fighting Fantasy books by them arrive next month.

Extra niche, Tinman also have a new series of humorous 'romance' gamebooks, their first is Vampire Boyfriends.

I noticed myself with both my ipod touch, and my android phone, that I started off very enthusiastic about apps and content and such, and ended up using it primarily as a "laptop light". Think email, facebook, a game or two, music, and some key apps.

I think the ipod touch is a great platform for games, as every game in the app store is guaranteed to be available, and to work, unlike android phones, which have very different specs.
Oh, also, "Backbreaker Football", "World Series of Poker Legend", Roll Through the Ages, Chicago Express, and Dominion (An amazing risk clone!) are all HIGHLY recommended.

I'm with you friend. My old crappy phone works just fine. It's shockproof (personally tested :P) and t9 texting still kicks asses. Very fast texting and comfortable large keys. Not to mention the lovely retro style. :)

I've mostly lost interest to smartphones and tablets, at least for now. Maybe it is because I'm on Android and not iOS, but I didn't want the Apple products because they are as closed as gaming consoles.

Maybe the Win8 tablets and smartphones will revitalize my interest, let's see. (Yeah I'm sure they are probably just as closed ecosystems as iOS, at least the smartphones).

Well, this should be a gaming forum not a "touchy-touchy" love parade, or I'm missing something here?

No doubt about it. Every application needs to go through a certification process for it to appear downloadable to users... which in the end may not appear to be a bad thing as you get a report where your application fails and how you can improve it.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/02/13/submitting-your-windows-8-apps.aspx
and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/06/27/improving-apps-with-quality-reports.aspx

I think you can side load applications through Visual Studio if you have the source code (not 100% sure about this for the official release, but you can certainly do it right now with the Release Preview).

I assume serpantino hates the touchscreen inferface, not the technologies themselves (there are several). To answer your question: sliding keypad, menus, hotkeys, hotspots, scrolling, cursor. Now whether it will be commercially successful is another matter entirely.

Actually, here's a revolutionary idea, STEAL IT.
The *other* side is touchable.

Anyway: touchscreen doesn't do mouseover! And websites adapt by having an alternative smartphone-friendly css, or by making phone apps, rather than discarding mouseover altogether. Which leads me to conclude that if the world collectively decided that phones should be touchscreen-free, websites would have adapted somehow.

Well it is not rocket science. They can keep both methods in the same CSS, people using touch would get the tap event and it would redirect them on a page were they would be able to choose one of the submenu items, or a JavaScript created menu could appear below the control that registered the tap event. People using mouse would get the hover event.

One reason, besides better integration with PCs, I might be interested in the Win8 tablets and phones is that as far as I've understood, they use the NavTeq based Nokia car navigator software by default. Which I happen to like for some reason, maybe I'm just accustomed to it. It has taken me to so many destinations without hiccups both abroad and here, and I've always liked how seamlessly it works both online or offline (even without a SIM card), only needing the GPS satellite Or at least the older versions of "Ovi Maps" used to work that way.

At least it doesn't tell me that the navigator does not run in this area, like Google's car navigator software tells me. In that case, GFY Google. I was interested to try the Google navigator as it probably has loads more POIs than Nokia's navigator.

Sounds like the motorola backflip. I mostly liked mine, except for the bloatware installed and the lack of processing power.