I found that the count down timer, found in the clock widget, has a part that says "When Timer Ends" and it defaults to a ring tone.  If you actually go in and change this, you'll see that the top option is "Sleep iPod" and it does just that.  This is actually a nice feature.  I've used it a few times to have the audio turn off after 30 or 40 minutes when I've gone to bed.

This brings up the second tidbit, that is either really obvious and silly or a really cool revelation. The Apple iPhone is the only iPod Apple has ever made with a built-in speaker!  See what I mean?  The point, however, is that you don't need your headphones on nor do you need to attach it to something to be able to play music or watch videos and hear something.  It makes showing it off that much easier but it also makes it easier to just pull it out, press play on something, and set it next to you while you're making coffee, eating breakfast, or even just listening in a car if you don't have a connector available. Very cool!

I've now found that if you're doing something while listening to the iPod and that something crashes, the iPod stops playing.  In fact, it doesn't just stop.  It loses it's place.  When you restart, if you were in the middle of something, it'll continue from where you started in this section -- not where you were.  This implies something interesting:  the whole phone has actually reset!  It's not quite as multitasking as the functionality implies.  I haven't had a chance to try what would happen if an app crashed while I'm talking on the phone, though.

Another annoying bit is the dialog that comes up on the prepaid plans that lets you know how much credit you have left.  This comes up after each data connection ends, and there is some sort of timer.  The annoying bit, though, is that these dialogs stack and the EDGE connection often lights up faster than WiFi while the phone is idling away checking email every 15 minutes.  This means when I wake up in the morning I often have a ton of dialogs to clear.  One is quite enough, thanks.  And if the amount of credit doesn't change, none is also quite sufficient.

Finally, it's really cool to be able to have the iPod playing through the car stereo, checking weather at my destination, checking the traffic in the Maps widget, and being able to take pictures on demand all, basically, at once.  No, it's not at once, but you can very quickly switch between these operations.  On most phones, this would not only take quite a while, but you'd probably not be able to keep listening to music during some of the operations and you'd certainly lose your place in whatever mapping application you have.

I'm not even using it for voice or SMS since I still have it on a prepay plan.  However, it's already been worth the money.  It's really quite a nice phone.  As I've said before, there are some rough edges, but so much of what it does it does so much better than any other phone it just can't be compared to as a whole.  Soon, that won't be true, but Apple won't stop, either.