OT: Ipods, Itouch and various crap

[Ratgirl]

My hubby surprised me with an ipod itouch tonight as a late Christmas present. So, before I sell my Ipod Nano is there anything I should be warned about? I love my Nano and use it
for long trips and the gym. Is the Itouch a waste of money? Opinions.. please?

[Fourt9rkim]

My hubby surprised me with an ipod itouch tonight as a late Christmas present. So, before I sell my Ipod Nano is there anything I should be warned about? I love my Nano and use it
for long trips and the gym. Is the Itouch a waste of money? Opinions.. please?

It really all depends on what you like. I bought the 16G iTouch last summer, and returned it after a couple of days. I already had the 80G iPod, and I mainly bought the iTouch for the WiFi for when I'm sitting out on the front porch....but I could never connect to the internet with it....so back it went. Instead, I bought one of the newer 80G iPods, so I have one iPod at home, and one at work. But it all depends on what YOU like.

[Ratgirl]

I do recall you complaining about the iTouch. I'll play with the wifi and see how it is around the house. That's not going to be the primary use of it
so flaky or not, I'll probably keep it. It's quite the upgrade from the Nano plus I'll have something to keep me occupied when I'm bored at work.

Thanks for the reply.

[Enigma869]

Although I own an iPod Touch, Nano, and video, this is my favorite music gadget http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 8015456277 . No songs to ever buy and no need to ever refresh lists. If you're like iPod users, you load your music the first time and never really change it must. The Slacker G2 never forces you to ever load new music and keeps everything constantly changing based on what you like to listen to. Coolest musical device ever made with all free music (and yes, it's legal)! All of my iPods have become paper weights since I discovered this thing.

[Don]

PSP is pretty sweet. Games, music, video and wifi, I like it.

[wastingbeerz]

Will NEVER buy ipod anything... too many limitations with what you can put on there/take off there... I'll stick with my Creative ZEN Vision M 30 gig for now... until they come out with something larger.

[Fourt9rkim]

I do recall you complaining about the iTouch. I'll play with the wifi and see how it is around the house. That's not going to be the primary use of it
so flaky or not, I'll probably keep it. It's quite the upgrade from the Nano plus I'll have something to keep me occupied when I'm bored at work.

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, it just wasn't for me at the time.....I may try another one down the road....I'm sure it will stay VERY busy will you are at work.

[Vladan]

Well in my opinion the Ipod Touch is the best on the market

[WalrusOct9]

The iTouch would be really awesome if it actually had some actual storage space.

[FishinMagician]

The iTouch would be really awesome if it actually had some actual storage space.

i second that!

[Enigma869]

The iTouch would be really awesome if it actually had some actual storage space.

I think that's where Apple REALLY dropped the ball. The new iPod Touches have only about 30% of my iPod video and are almost twice the price. It really makes zero sense. Sure, wifi and all those other features are nice but not at the expense of storage!

[WalrusOct9]

Apple makes products for people who don't give a shit about music.

So there's a major niche market for mp3/media players for super music geeks, with hundreds of gigs of storage, FLAC/OGG support, etc...and virtually no companies other than Archos are bothering to make inroads to it. If there's a market for $400 Sennheiser headphones, there's a market for mp3 players with more audiophile-centric features and massive storage space.

[Rockindeano]

PSP is pretty sweet. Games, music, video and wifi, I like it.

Goddamned your avatar has me harder than US Steel.

[Ratgirl]

I do recall you complaining about the iTouch. I'll play with the wifi and see how it is around the house. That's not going to be the primary use of it
so flaky or not, I'll probably keep it. It's quite the upgrade from the Nano plus I'll have something to keep me occupied when I'm bored at work.

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, it just wasn't for me at the time.....I may try another one down the road....I'm sure it will stay VERY busy will you are at work.

Got to mess with it a bit last night. Was able to connect to the wifi at home and uploaded some songs. It has some cool features. Going to uploads some video's, that should keep me entertained for awhile.
So yes I am going to keep it afterall and the hubby ran off with the Nano so it looks like we're keeping that as well.

[Fourt9rkim]

I do recall you complaining about the iTouch. I'll play with the wifi and see how it is around the house. That's not going to be the primary use of it
so flaky or not, I'll probably keep it. It's quite the upgrade from the Nano plus I'll have something to keep me occupied when I'm bored at work.

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, it just wasn't for me at the time.....I may try another one down the road....I'm sure it will stay VERY busy will you are at work.

Got to mess with it a bit last night. Was able to connect to the wifi at home and uploaded some songs. It has some cool features. Going to uploads some video's, that should keep me entertained for awhile.
So yes I am going to keep it afterall and the hubby ran off with the Nano so it looks like we're keeping that as well.

LOL...never hurts to keep the Nano too...remember, I am the camera whore....who bought 2 D-SLR's and my TZ5 AND my Canon G10 last year. I guess I should have tooled around with the iTouch when I had it last summer....but as several have said already....the storage space or lack thereof was another factor in my returning it. I think I have 8 GB of songs in my library, not counting the video podcasts I'm subscribed to. One thing I did love about it was watching the podcasts on there....that screen ROCKS!

Have fun with it! I know you will!

[Rocker Chic]

Will NEVER buy ipod anything... too many limitations with what you can put on there/take off there... I'll stick with my Creative ZEN Vision M 30 gig for now... until they come out with something larger.

I have the 60GB version of this, but it has been sadly discontinued. I love this thing to death and will use it until it dies or Creative Labs comes out with something bigger/better!

Got my husband the Zen (16GB) and he really likes it! Every time he shows it to someone, they wish they had bought that instead of their iPods.

Both players have an FM radio (with ability to set up to 32 stations), so no need for WiFi for me. I've got my AT&T Tilt for that.

Debbie

[WalrusOct9]

Creative has abandoned ALL their hard-drive based players. I used to have an 80 GB Zen extra and loved it...i'd buy another Creative player in a second if they actually made one with enough space to hold a good chunk of my music library.

[Rick]

Creative has abandoned ALL their hard-drive based players. I used to have an 80 GB Zen extra and loved it...i'd buy another Creative player in a second if they actually made one with enough space to hold a good chunk of my music library.

They're all moving away from the hard drive units. They require too much battery power, the hard drives take up too much space, are too expensive, heavy and are more fragile. They're coming out with the 32GB flash memory units and down the road even bigger. Creative already has a 32GB unit out that also has a SD flash memory expansion slot.