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mwerner

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Just bought one of these little toys with my "mad" money. I must say, the thing is rather amazing.
Kind of like having a really little iPad, or and iPhone that does nearly everything except make calls....

One reviewer I read said that the combination of an iPod and a regular cell phone was just as functional and much cheaper overall than an iPhone....

I work at a place that has free wi-fi everywhere, so I can do all the internet stuff at home, and I have a wireless network at home so ditto.

Just beginning to explore all the capabilities of the thing. So far I've surfed the net, watched YouTube videos, transferred my entire music collection.... (took up half the capacity! Gotta delete some stuff)
set up my e-mail accounts, etc, etc.
Cute.
 
Congrats. My stepson has one, and i think its a clever little thing but the lack of built-in microphone is annoying. If it had one, then it could easily make calls with Skype now that theres wifi at evey other corner.
 
Actually, the latest generation model does have a mic, and there's apps for skype and other such services.
Video and still pics too....
 
The new ones have mics and the old ones had mics in the headphones. I use Skype on mine when I forget my phone.
 
I have the Gen 3 (last before the new model), and love it. Great for travel. Had my boarding pass sent to it by email, then just scanned it at the gate! You can actually read books on it, although it won't replace my Kindle.
 
I bought a 1st gen Touch and never expected to get so much use out of it or for it to last so long with the daily abuse I dish out. I'm pining for one of the new models with the built in camera but since my old one is still in pristine condition I can't quite justify it yet. I would like to move up to an iPhone to have one less piece of electronic junk I have to haul around but won't do it until they're available on something other than AT&T.
 
Indispensable for air travel when paired with a set of noise cancelling headphones.

Wonderful bit of equipment.
 
I just picked up a 32Gb iPhone 4 a few weeks ago and agree it's great for traveling, killing time when out shopping with my wife, etc! It's so much better than my 3G which. I wish they had released it with the 64Gb like in the new Touch or iPad.
Congrats on your purchase!
 
mwerner said:
One reviewer I read said that the combination of an iPod and a regular cell phone was just as functional and much cheaper overall than an iPhone....
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I have an Ipod and a cellphone, simpler for me since I don't talk much and use a prepaid cellphone, I got it last may and it costed me 70$ since (not including the phone, but you see how little I use it).

The Ipod Touch is a nice little gadget, but if you have hotmail make sure you use exchange to set it up on your touch.
 
There's something I just don't get...


How can a gadget so advanced not allow you to listen to fm radio?
 
My brother bought on last week too. It's cool and he described it as you did...mini iPad. His only gripe is that Wi-Fi is always on unless you turn the iTouch off.
 
harkamus said:
My brother bought on last week too. It's cool and he described it as you did...mini iPad. His only gripe is that Wi-Fi is always on unless you turn the iTouch off.
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Or you can just disable it in the settings. I do that sometimes to conserve battery on my iTouch.
 
They're really handy and all, but they're riddled with tons of tiny problems. The good outweighs the bad, but I wish Apple would care enough to fix some of these things. For example:

1. I'm not sure if this is a "feature" or something, but when music is playing and the screen is off, sometimes the screen turns back on when the song changes. Sometimes, not always, and not always after one particular amount of time after the song starts.

2. When you have the speaker turned all the way off and then go to plug in headphones and turn their volume up, the next time you take the headphones out, the speaker volume will be back on even though there are no bars. You have to turn the volume up one and then down again to turn it off.

3. They need to make the Autocorrect feature smarter. The thing is stupid as hell in guessing what I was trying to type.

These are only a few examples... There are tons of other little things. But again, the good outweighs the bad.

Oh, and I wish they would make physical back/next song buttons so that I don't have to turn the thing on every time I want to change the song.
 
NaturalMystic said:
I just picked up a 32Gb iPhone 4 a few weeks ago and agree it's great for traveling, killing time when out shopping with my wife, etc! It's so much better than my 3G which. I wish they had released it with the 64Gb like in the new Touch or iPad.
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That's nothing new. They'll wait until all the new-tech-bandwagon jumpers buy the first version before they put out the new version. That way they get people's money twice. They've done this countless times now.

It might not just be them though, it could also be AT&T. My old old phone was a Sony Ericsson c905a. There's 2 versions of that phone: The unlocked one from SE and a neutered one through AT&T, which is the one I had. By "neutered" I mean that it had some SE software removed or blocked, and AT&T software added. The unlocked version has wi-fi, but the AT&T version doesn't. The other main difference was the price. Eve without a contract the AT&T version was around $200 cheaper. Presumably because the phone was made without some expensive features like wi-fi.

Except it wasn't. There was some different software, but the phone itself was physically identical, including all the hardware for wi-fi. They just disabled with software. I don't know if it was on SE's or AT&T's insistence that the phone be less capable and therefore cheaper (or cheaper at the expense of being less capable), but either way, it was physically the same phone.

It's quite possible that AT&T is forcing Apple (or vice versa) to limit the capbilities of certain products so there can be a large price disparity, even if the manufacturing cost differences are minute.
 
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