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 For First-Time iPod Touch Buyers: It's Amazing! September 15, 2009
indiestar (Houston, TX USA)
68 out of 76 found this review helpful
I just bought the 32GB 3rd generation iPod Touch and it's truly an amazing gadget! I was upgrading myself from a shuffle and was holding out until the 3rd generation of Touches was released. I am a working mother with two children under 5 and don't have time to listen to music (except for the radio in the car) or read or even be organized. I need a personal assistant! Enter the iPod Touch! It's a mini computer that is helping me stay connected to the web via free wifi with an amazing array of productivity and lifestyle apps to make my life better.
Within 3 minutes of opening up the package, I was connected to iTunes, the device recognized my wireless connection at home and I was surfing the web at lightening speed (much faster than my laptop). The fact that there is no learning curve is remarkable. Many of the apps seem to work better on the Touch than they do on a regular computer screen. A couple of clicks and screens and you are all set up and on your way!
This is another life-changing piece of technology like DVR. The best $300 I have ever spent on a gadget.
YES, this IS an improvement over the 2nd Generation iPod touch! September 18, 2009
Nix Cadavre (Michigan, USA)
94 out of 108 found this review helpful
First of all, let's get the whining out of the way. No, there's no camera on this iPod touch. But honestly, do you really need that cruddy 640x480 video camera they put in the iPod nano for your iPod touch? Do you really not have a camera on your cell phone?!?!
I didn't need a camera. I have a nice camera on my mobile phone and I barely ever use it (I suspect because I'm not a MySpace user). However, I was happy to see the improvements they DID make to the new 3rd Generation iPod touch.
* Faster CPU. This means that games, web surfing, and apps run 50% faster, and it's noticeable when you go from the older model to the newer one.
* OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics. Soon there will be games that offer advanced effects, and this iPod touch will be ready for it. At the time of this writing there are only three games with Open GL ES 2.0 support, but eventually you will be required to have it to use some apps. I'd rather have it than not have it. Besides, water, shadows, and other things look great with it.
* New earbuds with mic/remote control. Now you can control the iPod touch without looking at the screen, and use apps like Skype and Shazam without adapters. Very handy.
* Voice commands. You can use the mic to control your music. Press and hold the button on the mic to enter Voice Command mode, then say "Play artist _______" and it will play that artist. You can also ask "What band plays this?" or say "Play album _______" and it will comply. The voice recognition is very impressive, and the voice that speaks back to you is understandable, even if it mispronounces some things.
* Louder speaker. The built-in speaker sounds better to me. Louder, and much more clear when playing music or game sound.
There are also a few things that are in this model of iPod touch that are not in earlier models, but has yet to be "activated" by software. These include an FM receiver, FM transmitter, and 802.11n transmitter. Apple will no doubt sell us a future software update that will include a radio tuner, 802.11n support, and possibly even the ability to broadcast with the built-in FM transmitter from your iPod touch to your car stereo without a third-party accessory.
So yeah, this is an improvement over the 2nd Generation model. I'll trade all those features for a camera any day!
And of course, everything that was in the 2nd Gen iPod touch is here as well. Bluetooth support with the 3.0 software (nothing like wireless headphones for your music!), physical volume control on the left side of the iPod touch, nice screen, lots of storage space, and amazing support when it comes to accessories; This has the same form factor as the 2nd Gen model, so you should have no trouble finding a case or docking device to work with it.
If you've already got apps and iTunes Store purchases that you'd like to keep using, this is a nice upgrade. You get a lot of power in this little pocket computer... And the music playback quality is quite good, too!
Senior I-Pod user October 16, 2009
Nancy K. Swanborg (Farmington Hills MI)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Much of the world is I-pod compatiable and I thought I should join in...so I purchased the I-Pod Touch. I LOVE it. The calendar is my favorite part...it keeps me on track to be where I have commitments...and in retirement, one is busier than ever before, and it is light and easy to carry without weighing down my purse. I also love the weather option to see where I might be travelling to...and the world clock for places that I have relatives or friends...or wish to go to.
Learning to use all of the features takes time and patience for me...I am technologically somewhere between a beginner and a geek...I can maneuver quite well as a user, but encountering problems my troubleshooting takes time. I am still working on the e-mail app. for example.
It took a few tries to get the SYNC operation working with what I wanted, but that is A-OK now and very easy to use.
Overall, I highly recommend this I-Pod Touch...great way to stay in touch with anything in the world and especially your own life. AND having your own music, from your own CDs on board, means you never have to listen to anyone else's choices when waiting.
A Palm user's view of the iPod Touch November 2, 2009
Gus Smedstad (Boston, MA)
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
I've been a heavy Palm user for some years now. Primarily I used my Palm TX as an eBook reader. That may seem pretty specialized, but I read a lot, and the Palm gave me a large selection of books and magazines in a package that was smaller and easier to handle than a single paperback. You'd think I'd be the Kindle's target audience, except that the Kindle is larger than what I want in an eBook reader.
I had a few other applications I used regularly, like a RPN calculator and a shopping-list utility. I played a few games on it, but nothing terribly memorable. What I did not use it for was the traditional "day planner" functionality that first sold PDAs. I kept addresses in it, but rarely needed them. The TX has a wireless web browser, but I gave up on it rather quickly. It simply could not handle the vast majority of internet pages at all, let alone gracefully.
Gradually, I talked myself into purchasing an iPod Touch. The truly functional web browser than sold the iPhone was sexy, but I didn't want to pay an iPhone's monthly fee. Sure, I have a cell phone, but I'm on an annualized prepaid plan because I spend less than $50 in air time a year, let alone $70 / month. Amazon now had a Kindle app for the iPhone / Touch, which meant I'd have a larger selection of books. The app store ads demonstrated the very large software support available for the iPhone / Touch. And Apple had decided that gaming was going to be a major focus for the Touch, which was quite different from the fringe areas that games always occupied for the Palm.
I've been using it for 3 weeks now, and I can say without question I made the right decision.
It's easier to use as an eBook reader. The Kindle reader is seamlessly integrated with Amazon, so it's trivial to get new books on the Touch, where it was a multi-step mild headache to do so with the Palm. The Touch is smaller and lighter, and the touch sensor is much more sensitive than the Palm's. The touch screen is capacitance rather than pressure based, so a light brush registers, where the Palm needed a definite tap, and frankly required the hard buttons to turn pages reliably.
My main regret in this area is that Amazon's Kindle app is so dead-set on letting me read only Amazon books. There's simply no way to transfer unprotected mobi-format books from other sources, unlike the physical Kindle device. Yes, I know this can be circumvented with Jailbreaking, but that's not available for 3rd generation Touches yet, and shouldn't really be necessary anyway. Other Touch applications that need to transfer files have found a way.
This has pushed me to using Stanza for all non-Amazon books, and I've really come it like it. It's just as seamlessly integrated with online book sources as the Kindle app, including the electronic book store I'd used upon until now, and some free sources for classic works like Feedbooks. Mobipocket, on which Kindle is based, was the best reader for the Palm, but frankly Stanza is even more polished.
The Touch really works as a web browser. I'm an information junkie. I like looking things up and chasing down stray threads. My pattern used to be that I'd think of something I wanted to know, and I'd make a mental note to look it up on the web later, and then I'd forget. Then I'd think of it again later, and I'd be annoyed that I hadn't looked earlier. Now the Touch is almost always in reach, and I simply look it up immediately. You wouldn't think the convenience factor would be that important, but in practice it's been great. It gracefully handles pages that are expecting much larger, higher-resolution displays.
It's in web browsing that the sloppiness of the human finger as a pointer is most evident. More than once I've wanted to select a specific block of text, such as in a search dialog, and found it difficult or impossible because the end of my finger is just a big, fat blob compared to a stylus or a mouse cursor. Still, I can see how the advantages of abandoning the stylus have outweighed the drawbacks.
The app store drives me a little crazy. It's great that there is so much software available, and that it's so easy to transfer to the Touch. While you can certainly transfer apps via iTunes, it's so much easier to just find it on the Touch directly and tell it to install. The problem is that it's very, very difficult to sift through that software, and that even the PC version of iTunes provides inadequate tools to search through it.
It's great that iTunes has Amazon-style user reviews, but you can't see the overall score for something on the search page, and you can't sort your search results by rating. And contrary to what I had heard, it's fairly obvious that Apple isn't acting as a draconian gatekeeper, since so much of it is, to be blunt, junk. This not to say good software doesn't exist. It's just that there's so much poor-to-iffy software hiding it.
This should be understood to be praising with faint damnation. The iPod Touch is a really slick device. It's a first-rate PDA, eBook reader, and web browsing device. And oh, it plays music, too.
- Gus
Video Review on Gen 3 Ipod Touch December 12, 2009
Charles Evans (North Carolina)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R14LIN9PP0UT8Q A great device has gotten even better. The question is - how much better? The 3rd Generation offers you all of the great applications, wifi capability, music, videos, games but it also includes
1- a 64 gig model - Which is great but I am not sure if out-weighs the cost of the 32G
2- Increased speed over the 2nd generation - yes it is noticeable when used loading large applications - such as games. The increased speed is probably 25-30%
3- Voice Control - The 3rd generation has a microphone built into the headphones (I know I would prefer it NOT to be in the headphones too). However, I have had not any success in getting the Voice Control to recognize what I am saying. Even if it worked perfectly I wonder how often I would use this feature.
In my review I say that the iPod Touch will change your life. That may be a bit dramatic, unless you do a lot of travel. Those of us who spend a fair amount of time on the go will find that having an iPod Touch or an iPhone is a must-have since it provides us with instant access to email, weather, stocks, videos and with the use of a Slingbox our favorite TV shows!
Final Verdict - I am not completely convinced that the price difference between generation 2 and 3 warrants the price difference. In truth, it doesn't matter which generation you get both are certainly worth the money!
5 Stars
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