Apple confirms: iPod touch cannot add calendar appointments

Late last night some eagle-eyed Engadget readers spotted some disparities in Apple's international sites, with some claiming the iPod touch would be able add calendar appointments with its calendar app, and others omitting that language. We got in touch with our people down in Cupertino who just confirmed the (somewhat) bad news is real: "Like current iPods, the touch can only view calendar entries created on your computer". In other words, no, you can't make new calendar entries on the fly. Why Apple would want to remove this simple feature that's already built into the mobile OS X calendar experience is really beyond us, but we guess they're doing their damnedest to draw the line in the sand between iPod and iPhone. Still, makes you wonder what other minor, useful features Apple pulled from the touch.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 8th 2007 4:16PM]

Why not just purchase an iphone and not activate the phone part, just use the wifi connection, along with all the other non-crippled features? (as opposed to the ipod touch)

Just wondering?!

Dale

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 12th 2007 10:19PM]

Steve has already said that notes and ical editing in the touch will be added with an update its a bug that they are fixing. So hold off the ability will come and i'm also expecting a mail application to arise as well im sure

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2007 1:05PM]

I came up with a simple solution to not being able to add events on my iPod Touch calendar. I added a new event recurring every day. It just says the default "New Event." Now I can add an event on any day by editing the "New Event" that is displayed for that day. The editing feature works fine.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 28th 2007 4:44PM]

JUST LETTING EVERY ONE KNOW.
YOU CAN ADD DATES ON THE CALENDAR NOW.
UPDATE THE IPOD SOFTWARE