Blech. I don't like any of the stick ones. The form sucked! Not very pocketable and more easily snapped cause of length. The 3rd gen had a nice form (and seemed to have the best battery of hte three I've had, 3rd, 5th, and 6th). Fit in small pockets quite well. Honestly, if the 6th gen had as good a battery as the third gen, I would call it the perfect one. For those bitching the touch screen is too small, have you actually had one to use. It's very easy to use. And it is easier to find songs than the click wheel. It's quicker to go right to where you want on the ipod. And with the remote you don't miss having physical buttons on the times you need to not be able to look (in fact I preferred the remote to the click wheel buttons when I couldn't look at the ipod when I had the 5th gen. Quicker to figure out what I needed to do to FF, RW, stop, play).
