Apple iPod Touch Review

As a college student, I love my Ipod Touch. I have discovered many useful apps that have assisted me in my lower level math classes and chemistry. Plus it is nice to have a dictionary in my pocket at all times (and yes I found one that works offline). The quick graph app is still useful in math classes because it lets me see the line of a function I am working on, the multiconvert app is also wonderful because it will perform over 60 different categories of conversions with hundreds of different units.

You mentioned games, but not navigation, books, news and so much more. The commercial on TV that says "there's an App for that" isn't kidding. The only downside is the price. I understand that you get what you pay for and if you want quality you have to pay for it. But my problem with Ipod is the fact that a simple wire to plug it in can be $20! I bought mine before the bluetooth and mic were activated so it didn't come with any kind of mic. To buy the official Ipod one is $80!!! I found an aftermarket one at Best Buy for $35, still not cheap. I would hazard a guess that there is a reason the parts cost so much, and it is not because you are paying for quality in this case.

As I said, mine came with the 2.0 software and as I found out later, it has bluetooth and recording hardware installed, it just didn't work until I downloaded (and paid for) the 3.0 software. I don't understand that whole mess.

The reason I bought my Ipod Touch was because I was in college and going to Iraq. I wanted a pocket device to replace the phone I was not going to be able to carry and I wanted a pocket computer to replace the old HPac(??) who's touch screen no longer held calibration. I got what I wanted and more, now I just have to pay for the privilege.

Drew

Was gonna buy one for myself (16G) for Christmas but thought I'd wait until the next logical upgrade...iPod Touch with Camera. The iPhone has it and recently the iPod Nano 5th Gen comes with a camera. Even though Apple have not announced this (they do keep tight sealed lips on these things) to me it seems the next logical step. So I'll wait.

I've been using a Palm Treo 650 for maybe four years now. It has been doing all these things and more including still and video camera. There are literally thousands of applications available cheap or free. I haven't looked at the Palm Pre yet (no need) but I expect it will be just as great.

Guys, with most of my family, children, grandchildren living with iPhones and iTouch I have stayed away 'cause I just want a simple PDA! Or a device that will emulate PDA functions and the one that I miss most - after the death of my 5th PDA - is Excel which i use for so many things - i even use it at the gym! On genealogy for data collection and sorting and a myriad of other uses.

Any thoughts welcome from

Sleepy

YAY! A few years ago my wife wanted one... I got her the one with a 16GB drive and the Bose headphones. I'd see her with it on, listening to her music or pod casts... So one day I tried it - without her conscent and was thrilled by everything, music, games (free & pay), and everything else she had. For me it was mostly the music. So the next day I asked her if I could check it out... And needless to say I 'went to town.' At first I was mostly into the music and some movies - and then started looking around iTunes. I found Professor Lewin's 'videos' on his class at MIT... Needless to say I grabbed them all! They were free!!! There's just so much I love about my iTouch (32GB v1) that I could go on for days... I highly recommend one - if you can. OH! "We" were in the market for one of those systems where you can hook it up to the audio in the car... Our car is fairly old and it has a cassette and CD player... Our friend tried some of those 'radio patch' setups and didn't like it... So one day I saw a cassette adapter and bought it for something like $12! Works like a charm :)

Dat's Bandit! :)