Ipod touch pros/cons

Pre-College Issues High School Life
1

<p>Should I get an ipod touch for christmas? What are the pros/cons? give suggestions. kthanks.</p>

2

<p>Well what do you have right now? And how big are you getting it?</p>

<p>Pros:

  • It’s just generally pretty spiffy.
  • It has a pretty decent battery life (I’ve had a generation 1 for almost a year and it still gets me through 8 hours easily as long as I don’t spend too much time looking for songs/shuffle)
  • You can flip the screen to watch podcasts/television shows
  • All the free apps you can download.</p>

<p>Cons:

  • Cost: If you have a lot of music, I would stick with the traditional Ipod. I well over 5,000 songs, which puts me at 15 GB and change – so the 16 GB was bare minimum what I could get, and at the time it costed more than the 80/120GB traditional.
  • The apps are cool, but a lot of the super cool ones require a wifi connection because they were originally designed for the Iphone, so you have to be near a wireless connection to use them.
  • The technology is over a year old: ie. by apple standards, they should be coming out with something new by Summer 2010 at their Designer’s Conference. If this matters at all to you, I would hold out.</p>
3

<p>It is wireless and there are a lot more hot spots now. Once you have access to wireless, you could receive emails, AIM, Skype. All for free.</p>

4

<p>I have one, and I don’t like it. The apps aren’t good, and I have a laptop to use already so the wifi isn’t very useful.</p>

5

<p>That’s why you jailbreak your itouch,then you can get all the games you want.</p>

6

<p>yea I was thinking that it could be really helpful in college, I’d have internet access almost everywhere. I was planning on getting the 8 gig.</p>

<p>how does one go about “jailbreaking” an ipod touch?</p>

7

<p>My whole family has iPhone. When we travel abroad our iphones become itouch. We’ll pop into different places with wireless to check our emails. What’s “cool” is to get Apple’s AirPort. I could turn our whole hotel room into a wireless hot spot where we could all use our iphones at the same time. Our kids could Skype their friends while we send out emails. I have stopped bringing my laptop when I travel.</p>

8

<p>Don’t jailbreak it.</p>

<p>The only advantage for an itouch is that: Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch will open up a new world of games. Developers who have become fed up with Apple’s draconian app store rules brought their talent into the third party arena and there are some wonderful games available</p>

<p>But: If you is a very very slim chance that you can brick your iPhone or iPod Touch (which basically means rendering it unresponsive). Also if it ever breaks under warranty you can’t take it in to get fixed.</p>

<p>And yeah, college campuses make the itouch great because then it operates just like and Iphone sans the whole phone part. But your email updates constantly, and you can use AIM and skype.</p>

9

<p>Pros: looks good, apps are fun
Cons: bad sound quality compared to the Cowon S9, supports a small amount of audio files, doesn’t support FLAC (it supports Apple Lossless but I don’t want to convert 40+ gb of FLAC to Apple Lossless, so this is the major reason I refuse to get one)</p>

10

<p>I use mine for Internet more than music. Like right now.
Booting up a laptop take forever and this is way easier to carry around.
Obviously it can’t be used for writing too much but the touchscreen is really responsive and accuarate. </p>

<p>If you don’t have a phone that can get you Internet get a touch. If its just for music save your parents money. Unless you really like games</p>