Tell Me Everything About the iPod Touch

In My Humble Opinion
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It’s a pretty amazing device. Perhaps a gateway device for the iphone, even, once the desire to do internet away from wifi sets in.

I gave up on screen protectors and use a Belkin grip ergo cover. My 7 y.o. girls play with it quite a bit. The only thing I don’t like about the cover is that it bulks up the device, which is amazingly slim, but that’s life with kids. I have a “video ipod” for the car. The ipod touch is better for video of course, and the video ipod (basically a classic w/80gb hard drive) is better as a straight-up music player, IMO.

iTunes is fine. Up to 5 computers can be authorized to work with the device, but this gets unwieldy when you start wondering where you got something. A nice feature of itunes is homeshare, where computers logged on to the same account can listen to and import songs from each others’ computers.

Overall I love the device, but I found myself not using the music apps as much as I thought I would. Things are either too small, too imprecise, or not intuitive enough. I have bigger music toys in the next room anyway, so that’s probably part of my not using the ipod touch apps so much.

There’s lots of cool silly children apps, like the Jelly Car that one of my daughters loves. Some of the apps are kind of spammy too, which sucks.

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if you have a Five-Below anywhere nearby, you can get an AC charger for $5…

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My wife has one, she loves it, it is very very useful.

However, I would recommend against giving it to a student. I read a newspaper article saying that students who have any sort of personal mp3 player tend to use it instead of study. Computer use, TV use, etc. are easily controlled by parents. However, it’s much harder to control MP3 use. In the article I read, students who don’t have them study 5-7 hours a week. Students who have MP3 players study less, and the difference is almost exactly how much more they use their players.

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I have the InvisiShield on my iPhone, and yes, it IS as durable as they claim, I have yet to replace the shield, it has not shown any signs of peeling off, but then again, I have my iPhone in an Otterbox Defender that really “ruggedizes” the iPhone, they make a Defender for the Touch as well

Yes, the Otterbox is expensive for a case, but it’s worth it, I’ve inadvertentley dropped my iPhone a couple times, the worst one at a local garden shop, the headphones snagged on the edge of my garden shopping cart, pulling the iPhone out of the Otter holster (the holster needs work), bouncing it off the metal shopping cart, and landing on the CONCRETE floor, landing face-down…

I picked up the phone, turning it on expecting to at least see a cracked digitizer (front glass) or even a cracked LCD…

NOTHING!, it was completely unscathed! the Otterbox protected the iPhone from impact with a metal shopping cart and landing face down on concrete

I’m sold… :slight_smile:
And no, I don’t deliberately abuse/drop my iPhone, the few times it dropped initially was due to falling out of the supplied plastic “snap in” holster, that stopped when I stopped using the holster as a belt holster, and snapped the phone into the holster, then dropped the holstered phone into my pocket

Almost every time I’ve used the holster as a holster, the phone has suffered some form of gravitational challenge, the Otter holster sucks, the case itself, however, is worth every penny

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My daughter has one but she prefers my old iPhone for two reasons:
the camera and the speaker.

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Currently posting from the new iPod touch. Great little device. One annoying little bug though. Everytime I use it an annoying fourteen year old pops up asking for their iPod back. Hopefully Apple will fix that with their next OS update.

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There’s an “App” for that, it’s called “getajobandbuyyourowniTouch,kid”, I hear it’s pending approval at the App Store though…
:wink:

Try looking in the General Preferences, see if there’s an “annoying teen” flag, set it to “off”…

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I have a question for those that have one: is it a pain to carry both the iPod touch and a cell phone? It seems having one device that serves both needs (i.e. an iPhone) would work much better logistically.

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I have an I-pod classic three years old with an 80 GB memory and it is almost full. The touch is still far below this capacity which is why it is not something on my list to have.

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I never thought I’d want one, then my gf gave me one on the advice of my son. I love it. I don’t get the hate for iTunes, either. Also got an otterbox so I can take it on the water with me.

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The problem is that with the iPhone, you have to pay for a data plan that ends up costing several thousand dollars over the life of the thing. You’re bound to a contract for 2 years, and then after that I think AT&T still won’t let you get a regular phone-only plan without 3G data. I have an old grandfathered Verizon prepay plan that costs me $8.33 a month minimum, but they tell me $70 is the cheapest iPhone plan, so that’s an enormous increase and if the iPhone lasts 4 years it will cost me about $3,000.

The same goes with the Droid phones, Verizon won’t let you activate a smartphone without buying a data plan. There may be a small prepay company that does it on the Verizon network, but that looked really iffy, nobody was sure what phones they would approve.

I’m concerned about this, so I ordered a “slim wallet” to try to reduce the bulk in my pockets, but I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to fit enough stuff in the wallet.

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Also, screwing around with your Touch won’t ruin your cell’s battery life. This is important.

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They are expensive, but you can buy a 64gb model of the touch right now. Supposedly the next generation will have a 128gb model.

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Yes. A big reason is just that the thing feels vulnerable and I worry it will crack if my phone puts pressure on it the wrong way.

The leather case is very durable, but that makes it far more bulky.

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Yet another reason to own an Otterbox case… I sent Otter Industries a quick e-mail detailing how I love the protection of the Otterbox Defender, and described the garden center incident, made a couple recommendations for the next version for the iPhone 4 (ditch the vanity window, it’s irrelavent and used only to brag “Look, I’ve got an iPhone, look how cool I am!”), and detailed that my only real disappointment is the belt clip…

about an hour later, I recieved a reply back, the rep was thanking me for my testimonial, but he was concerned about why the phone fell out of the Revision 3 clip, he offered to send me a replacement case, a new replacement case and pocket clip, as mine is a revision 2 case in a revision 3 clip, I took him up on the offer, and now have a yellow OtterBox defender on the way from Otter Industries, I wanted the yellow initially, but the AT&T store i got it from seven months ago only had black, I think the yellow case gives it a cooler “industrial” look to it

Best part, the replacement case and clip are being sent out free of charge, Otter really stands behind their product and truly understands customer service, they’ve got great word-of-mouth advertising from me, that’s for sure, already got my boss looking into an Otter for his 3GS, and when Mom gets a smartphone, she’ll more than likely get one for her new phone too, plus, I’m talking them up here and in other forums where the subject turns to smartphones and smartphone cases

I was only telling them how happy I am with my Defender, and was not expecting them to ship out a replacement case, totally unexpected, but also pleasing :slight_smile:

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And you have me looking at one. How rubbery is the back? My incase spends the time not in my pocket, on the center console of my Camry, as my stereo system. It slides around a bit, unlike the silicone case for my old Video. But I don’t want one that picks up pocket lint.

It does seem considerably thicker than the Touch alone. My incase adds a quarter inch to the back and a quarter inch to the front. If that.

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It is right next to the “Ignore pleas for new model” switch.

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I am waiting for the android version. I hate apple.
This seems to be the winner.

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Yes, but it is from Dell, a company I love almost as much as Apple (NOT)

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The Defender case has sections where the plastic inner frame is exposed to the elements, so if you put it down on a smooth surface, the silicone doesn’t really grip, you couldn’t set it on your dashboard and have the silicone hold it completely still, it helps, but it wont secure it completely

A far as pocket lint goes, yes the case picks up a little, very little in fact, no more than a faint dusting, yet the silicone skin has just the right amount of gripability, softness and give to allow secure purchase on the phone, it entirely does away with the “wet bar of soap” feel of a naked Touch/iPhone, it makes the iPhone about 3/4" thick at it’s widest point

I think the bulkiness/gripability the case adds to the phone is a good thing, as a naked iDevice feels far too delicate/fragile in my hands