IPOD TOUCH, WOW!! | Apple iPod touch 8 GB, Old (1st Generation)

Great product, however, movies are expensive | Apple iPod touch 8 GB, Old (1st Generation)

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highly recommended

ITOUCH 16GB

I love my Itouch. It is like your own personal computer with you at all times. I only hate that I can't have wireless with it at all times. Being able to keep your pictures with you at all times is great! Good product...get it!Apple iPod touch 16 GB without Software Updates

IPOD TOUCH, WOW!!

Bought this product 3 months ago. I am very pleased with the purchase. The best feature is the ability to watch movies and videos on the go. It has a nice crisp picture. The wi-fi is also a nice feature. The 16GB is more than enough space for me. My last MP3 player was only 512mb so I can't complain. Amazon has the best price around. Get it now!

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Great product, however, movies are expensive

The decision to buy:
I think it comes down to the iPhone, Touch, or Zune for a player with a screen big enough to actually watch a full movie on. I tried to look into the Zune two ways: 1) On line. Microsoft's website is extremely disappointing. It's a bunch of psychedelic nonsense. I either missed the information all together, or it's the worst thing I've ever seen. Either way, that combined with the lack of an acutal demo in any store turned me off of the Zune. The final nail was the lack of wi-fi. I currently am in a contract with a non AT&T company, so that killed the iPhone. Plus, I didn't want to constantly have to carry something that size in my pocket. I kind of like having a smaller phone to carry every day. The decision was really between the 16 GB and 32 GB Touch. My primary needs were videos for travel and the wifi, not having a million songs on it. Therefore, I decided to save the $100 and get the 16 GB model. A full movie is around 1 GB so I can get 10 movies and 1000 songs and still have 2 GB to spare.

Features:
I bought the additional features for $19.99 through iTunes when I connected my Touch. Go to Apple.com for demos of the features. There online demo is amazing. A few questions that we're not answered though. In the mail feature, I wasn't sure if it supported every mail carrier, specifically Yahoo!. It does support Yahoo! along with Gmail and AOL. It does not support Hotmail. This feature is outstanding. It automatically loads your emails so you don't have to go to Yahoo!, then Mail, then type in your login and password. You just click the mail button, and it's all there. Of course, you have to be connected to a wifi network for it to update you inbox and send out. To set up your account you just enter your name, login and password and it's set. You can also store multiple email address and easily access each one by just selecting the stored account (example, you have a Gmail and a Yahoo! account).

The music, notes, weather, stocks, maps are all great, but simple to understand so I won't go into it. I'm sure everyone knows of the album cover jukebox style display. I was worried about music I put on that didn't have the album cover, however, you can easily right click on the song, chose "Get Info" then click to add artwork. You can just go online and find the album cover and save it to your desktop, then chose it from there. The only problem is typing. You're not going to send a long email from the touch unless you really practice. I'd say it has about a 1% error rate when going slow (example, it will put a "r" when I wanted a "t"), however, the more I use it, the better I get at making sure I hit the right letter and minimize my contact surface area with my finger. When I try to "type" with both hands instead of pecking with one finger, my error rate is much higher. Again, practice may help. I'd go to the Apple store and play with it to see if it annoys you.

WiFi:
This works great. It's obvious, but I'll say it. You have to be in a WiFi area to go online. As opposed to the iPhone where you can go online anywhere with AT&T. So I have a wireless router at home and it works great. It also works anywhere where there is free WiFi (hotels, airports, etc.). You can also use it at Hotspots, such as Tmobile (Starbucks, Borders) and AT&T (Coffee Bean, Barnes & Noble, McDonalds). You can go to Tmobile and ATT's website to see how much, but you can pay for a day, or a few hours of access if you don't pay monthly for the service. I found out that if you have AT&T (or what used to be SBC or Yahoo!) DSL, you get free access to their Hotspots. I tried it at the Coffee Bean and it worked great. It's pretty fast too. Webpages are small, however, easily zoomed into by double tapping or using the pinch as seen in Apple's online demo. You have to tap at the proper speed so it doesn't just go to the hyperlink instead of zooming in. The Google search is nice becuase you can choose to have it search as a typical Google page results or return contact information results like a Blackberry would.

Video:
This is the primary reason I purchased the Touch. I'm taking a trip to Europe and I wanted to watch videos. They say you get 5 hrs of video. I haven't put that to the test yet (I'm not going to sit for 5 hours and watch that screen if I don't have to). I purchased a turbo charge for the plane and I hope that works like it says it will. When I went on iTunes to get movies, I was shocked at the price. Movies to buy are full price...$14.99. Why would I pay that? I can buy the actual movie for my DVD player for cheaper! Rentals are also full rental price, $4.99. It does vary for older movies, but I still think it's a rip off. The one thing I did find reasonable are episodes from TV Series. For South Park, Family Guy, and the Simpsons, I bought my favorite episodes for $1.99 each. This is great. You don't have to drop $30 on the full season if you only like a few episodes. And for comedy, I'll definitely watch them over and over again.
It was quickly apparent that I would need software to make my own DVDs into the Touch format. Again, I could just buy a regular DVD for $15, then convert it to my Touch. I tried a ton of software packages and formats. The Touch will work with H.264 or MP4. Almost all the software companies will give you a demo for free, however, there is a watermark on the video. I'm glad I tried this becuase I got various quality even with the same settings. I finally bought the converter suite from CuCuSoft. I would demo them all for yourself though, but try this one too. I also was frustrated on what settings to use. According to Apple's specs, the Touch's screen is 480 x 320. However, it can handle video up to 640 x 480. I wasn't sure if it is worth the extra file size to make it 640x480, or if I was just wasting storage since the screen is only 480x320. I don't know enough about video to make a decision, nor could I find a lot online (let me know if you have an answer). Also, there are several video supported formats: H.264, 1.5 Mbps or H.264/MP4, 2.5 Mbps. What I did was try them all with the same clip and see if I could tell a difference. Again, it comes down to file size vs. quality. If you can't tell a difference, go with the smallest file size. I'm still playing with it, but H.264, 640x480, 1.5Mbps seems to be good. I tried to find the setting for the shows I bought, but they are not attached to the file. All I know is that it is 640x480 based on the size of the screen at 100% when played with Quicktime and it was around 200MB for a 23 min show. I've been told by others that a full movie should be around 1 GB. I haven't bought one due to the cost, so I just adust my setting on my sofware to give about a 1 GB output file.

Conclusion:
All in all it is fantastic. I'm happy with my purchase and I am glad I didn't get the 32 GB. The $100 is handy to buy a case and software with. If you want a ton of songs and video, I'd get the 32. But movies you can remove once you watched them and just rotate them back in later. The WiFi is a great feature. Even without AT&T, you can pay a monthly fee for T-moble or ATT Hotspot access, or just pay for a few hours (Although, not nearly as convienient as the IPhone). It's cheaper than the $20/month ATT charges for the iPhone data and McDonalds and Starbucks are everywhere. The videos are excellent quality when purchased, however, they are expensive. You can just use software to convert your own DVDs, but it's not easy to decide the quality to size ratio that you are happy with. I tend to want it as good as possible, but that takes up a huge amount of space.

Hope this helps.

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I wonderful product

First Off...

I love this product! It has been a wonderful addition to my iPod G5.
All in Size, form factor, responsiveness, and design!

The interface is both elegant and extremely user friendly. It almost seems at times that the iPod actually knows what I want to do before I actually "make the gesture."

I love it.

However (Of course, like many, I purchase my iPod Touch a week before the new 32GB model became available) It seems to have a few flaws:

After 2 or three days of not attaching it to my laptop (PowerBook) it seems to slow down a bit (I think this may be due to the additional applications i purchased through the iTunes Store, i.e. Mail, Weather, etc...) After attaching it to my laptop it seems to speed up slightly.

When I say slowing down, my iPod would slow down when switching playlists, apps, etc.

Second gripe is it seems to make my laptop run a lot hotter than without it attached (although, I have not used my iPod G5 since i bought the Touch!!) This could be due to the fact I am running it through a USB hub with 5 other devices, but further testing is needed.

Overall, I love my iPod Touch. I can't rave about it enough. Interface, ease of use, simplicity, and just the looks of it.

If you have a large music library (mine is close to 40GB now) it will get hard to select what you really want to listen to! But, the iPod touch will present an elegant solution to the problem with Cover Flow (and who says you can't choose a different library every week?)

-g

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ipod touch is a great product

it's a great product. has amazing possibilities. can do things that I never thought it would. it's expensive, so before you buy it, you should really think about how you will use it. Good Luck.

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