I picked up five 32GB iPod Touches yesterday at the Apple store - we gave away some at TC50 and our benefactor Michael Arrington wanted two - and I can confirm that the Touch is worth looking into if you’re hunting for all the power of the iPhone without all the “cancer,” “dropped calls,” and “service charges.” Not that cellphones give you cancer, but there’s always a possibility.
After working with it briefly at the event on Tuesday I wasn’t convinced that the Nano 4G was an interesting update but was feeling lots of love to the new Touch. Now that I have it and have been using it for a day or so I’m pleased to report my initial impressions were correct.
The Nike+ iPod application is great - it’s just what I expected and it works seamlessly with the little Nike puck. Most of the applications work except for the G.P.S. based ones. The built-in map “fake” G.P.S. is abysmal though - it thought I was Boston last night when I was clearly in San Francisco.
The device is also extremely thin - thinner than the 1G model - and nice and responsive. Sadly, it’s a horrible fingerprint magnet. I expect to rub off the chrome very shortly. If you have a Classic or a Nano and want something to watch movies on and, to a degree, exercise with, you can’t go wrong with this. If you bought a 1G model, however, ignore this and enjoy what you have. The 3G should be a long shortly and you can upgrade then.
You should really clean your fingernails before taking pictures of them.
that’s kumparak’s hand
Thanks, mom. Next time I’ve spent the past week running from event to event and Biggs says “Hey, hold this for a second”, I’ll remember to make him wait for me to clean my fingernails so I don’t offend the internet.
Wow Nate… you just got owned.
how is this sooo worth it? or was that a joke?
no phone (well no kidding)
so really all you’re saying is that the nike thing works and it’s thin?
What a waste of space blog
don’t worry - doug hates it. he’ll refute my claims.
I don’t “hate” it, I just don’t see any point to upgrading from the first generation. If I didn’t have the first Touch, I’d buy this new one.
Ziggy has a point, too. There’s not a lot of space on the Internet and we’re definitely being wasteful of the space we have here. Each word we type feels like coming home with a plastic grocery bag and throwing it in the garbage right away.
i love my 1g ipod touch - so i understand the joy. does anybody know of any device that does so much so well? (wifi, video & audio, great interface, etc)
I love my 1g iPod Touch and would upgrade to a new one if it included a camera and voice recorder. That would make the Touch the perfect gadget in my opinion.