I was excited to see with the iPod Touch that the vision of a phoneless iPhone with wifi has so quickly been realized.

Many have noted the lack of an email app, but for many folks the iPod is more about entertainment than email. 

Below are 5 key entertainment related apps that I hope will find their way on to the iPod, either from Apple or from less “official” channels.

1. Streaming music and photos from your Mac or PC: many folks have media collections larger than 16 gigabytes.  There’s no reason why the iPod couldn’t allow access to your full music and photo collection via streaming.  It could cache the song data so that you could browse remote music just as quickly as the music on your device; ditto for photos and thumbnails.
2. Offline web browsing and search: web content discovered on your PC or iPod could be saved for instant, offline access.  A built-in search engine would allow easy search and retrieval of all your cached content even when offline.  (The device is easily large enough to carry around a library of ebooks or the contents of our corporate internet, for example.)
3. Flash games: Adding Flash support to the browser would allow the wealth of flash based games to be played on the iPod touch.
4. DivX movies: DivX based movies could be either stream or stored on the device.
5. Skype:  add a microphone to the iPod Touch and it becomes a great WiFi Skype device.  The iPhone without the costs.  This one will require Apple’s help of course.