Apple iPod touch 8 GB (1st Generation) OLD MODEL
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Customer Review: Sweet advances
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking to upgrade my trooper of an Ipod Mini and was going to upgrade to an Ipod classic but when I saw what the touch offered I was intrigued. What sold me on the touch was the wi-fi capability. After many years I reuturned to college to pursue a bachelors degree and the touch's wi-fi capability has been an excellent feature. Many of my courses have an online component and instead of hauling my laptop or wating in line to use one of the university's computers, I can use my touch to check email or see the latest discussion postings or contribute to the discussions. Typing has been excellent, very few errors and I have gotten quite fast. I use the widescreen view when I observe web pages and the zoom function is just plain sweet. I am awed by the interface, very responsive. Any misses or non-responces are due to my errors and not the interfaces. You have to train yourself a little bit on using the touch screen but it's not difficult.
Some have complained about storage capacity but reality check people. Not everyone needs 80 or 160 gb's of storage. I have the 8 gb model of the touch which is double my old mini's capacity and it suits my needs perfectly. A couple of gb's of music and audiobooks, a few tv show episodes for when I have no reading or studying to do between classes, a few short films, and some photos to share with my classmates, such as my new niece.
Sound quality is excellent and I have had zero issues using the touch in my car with the power adaptor and fm transmitter. Battery life so far has been excellent with me mixing up music, video and photo slideshow use. I have not had any issues concerning the screan or the touch acting all wonky. At the moment I am using it an average of about five hours a day and zero issues as of this time.
Customer Review: The good, the bad and the ugly
Summary: 4 Stars
The good: beautiful media player with great touch screen, wifi connectivity, web browser, YouTube support, mail client and calendar and contact list.
The bad: just a beautiful media player with great touch screen, wifi connectivity, web browser without flash support and no download abilities, YouTube support and no support for any other similar service, mail client that can only be synchronized with outdated version of Outlook Express and also calendar and contact list with the same limited list of supported partners (oh, no Google calendar, but you can import your contacts from Yahoo... no, no Yahoo mail of course). Also some small features like no microphone (why somebody expect to have one? what? Skype?), Google-map application is not supported, etc etc etc
The ugly: whatever you may think about it - it just a beautiful media player, locked, closed and hyper protected from any attempt to be anything else Apple want it to be. Think different. May be in a year Apple proudly declare that new model of iTouch allows synchronization with Vista calendar or support of any other video service than YouTube or support for Google maps or flash player supported in the browser.
The problem I see here is that above media player part, Apple decided to sell us one feature at a time. Sometimes it means - access to one web site at a time. Had Microsoft done anything like that, the whole world would be screaming...
In short - if you want to buy something more than just media player - look elsewhere.
Update: 1/15/08
Looks like my worst predictions are realizing: who is first to pay $20 for Notepad, e-mail, Google Maps and other two missing app from touch, but available on iPhone? Brilliant. Artificial market.
Customer Review: Apple hater loves iPod touch
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm sure all of this has already been said, but I felt the need to cast my vote too. I love my iPod touch 8GB.
Let me explain that while this is not my first portable media player, it is my first iPod. By choice. I was raised on PCs and have hitherto always hated Apple, so I'm probably pretty different from most iPod reviewers in that respect.
The touch-screen interface is probably the most intuitive interface of any device I've used. Not only do I think wheels are stupid, I'm now starting to think buttons are obsolete. I'm exaggerating, of course, but this thing is a pleasure to use.
The audio quality is excellent and there are a great number of useful EQ presets. 8GB is pretty small for the price of this player. However, although I don't have every song I own on it, I do have every song I ever think about listening to (1365 of them) as well as a few podcasts, some photos, and a couple of TV shows. The screen is very large for a device that fits in your pocket, and it plays some beautiful video.
It isn't the perfect device. It's picky about video (but so is every other player). The wifi and the web browser are exciting features, but they are limited in ways you might or might not expect. The browser doesn't support Flash player (at least yet), so no internet radio. You can play mp3s from web pages in the browser, but can't store them for later use. Also, the wifi music store isn't a wireless-optimized iTunes store as I expected: there are no podcasts or TV shows on it, and it doesn't point out free content the way iTunes on your computer does.
Customer Review: The new era for iPod's!
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first heard about the new iPhones I couldn't believe how great it was that you can actually touch the screen and not worry about buttons. Then I realized that it was great technology...but it be so annoying if were in the middle of watching a movie or listening to a song and you get a phone call.
So then, I just decided to wait for something else from Apple, and boy...was I glad I did!
The brand new iPod Touch, the same technology from iPhone, minus a few things here and there. This is by far the greatest Mp3/Media player currently on the market right now. This product is just as amazing as I thought it would be, but if your really into watching videos I would recommend the 16GB one over the 8GB.
You can easily store about 6 movies on the 8GB version if you upload the movie files at 700MB, and will still have room for about 500 songs. I think that is plenty of room for most people, because lets face it why keep the same movie on there if you have already seen it? Technology will always come up with something new and fresh, doesn't mean you have to run off and spend money on it. If your really into music and movies, then I think the extra $100 bucks is worth getting the 16GB model. Overall, this is a gadget that won't get old for a long time because of watching videos in widescreen and listening to your tunes while surfing threw your collection, and best of all you can be on the internet!
It's fun...it's user friendly...and most importantly it's money well spent for what you get out of it. Enjoy!
Customer Review: One of the best yet
Summary: 4 Stars
I'll be short and to the point...
Good Stuff:
Great device with a "next gen" user interface - amazing. Very good sound quality compared with a Cowon D2 (which is also a very good PMP).
Bad Stuff:
Yet another propriety interface (aaargh!), Seems fragile - no doubt I will break it by doing something crazy like "dropping it".
When it says "Synch" it's really one way - the PC/Mac/iTunes is the ONLY way to delete content from it. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE. I listen to a ton of podcasts and other content and there is no way for me to keep track of what I don't like - even some kind of flag/rating thing I could deal with until the synch but this REALLY REALLY REALLY SUCKS!!!
Other than that it's awesome.
UPDATE: Now that I've used it for a few weeks, I'm still digging it except;
1. the delete thing - still bugs me - I can manually delete a video file but not a song - ridiculous.
2. Forced to use iTunes. The more I'm forced to use iTunes, the more I hate it with a passion - it's a big fat mess and NOT the way I want to manage my media at all. I use MediaMonkey and all the other ipods are supported but Apple decided to handcuff me to their crappy POS iTunes with this version.
3. There is a rating method to help with deleting songs but this is a crippled approach.
Hey, Steve Jobs - you've been hanging out with Bill Gates too much - just stop it - seriously - just stop....