Or so I tell myself.

February is not a good time to go shopping at the Apple Store, because in just a few weeks Steve (or maybe this year Tim, or Phil, or Jony) will show up with a whole new lineup. So I've decided to make do with what we have floating around the house. My two main uses for the Touch have been

• listening to podcasts, and
• checking email and other news on the toilet (I'd do that in bed, but the WiFi signal does not carry that far).

For podcasts, my second-generation Shuffle has still not recovered from its ride in the laundry machine, so we have recalled Cissy's five-year-old fifth-generation iPod, which we had given to her parents (who also have my fourth-generation Nano), after she got her current sixth-generation Nano. So iPod-wise, we are covered. And can it be mere coincidence that its 30GB hard disk exactly fits my entire music (2009 songs) and photo (15745 pictures) libraries?

As for my tablet needs, Cissy frequently brings back interesting swag from customer visits, most recently a Lenovo S10 netbook, a silver bar (!), and a seven-inch Android Newsmy Newpad NP711, so I am going to play around with that now, at least until I can decide whether to invest in fixing its battery, which unfortunately appears completely broken, remaining at a 1% charge, even when plugged in (which pretty much rules out checking email and other news on the toilet for the moment).