Apple iPod touch 8 GB (1st Generation) OLD MODEL
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Customer Review: An iPhone Without the Phone!
Summary: 4 Stars
If you want the coolest iPod yet check out the Apple iPod touch. This radical design lets you listen to your music as well as browse the internet among other features.
Apple has taken the iPhone and removed the telecommunication capabilities. It is thinner than the iPhone, but has many of its functions. It can play music from iTunes or your CDs. It is a web browswer as well (as long as you have access to wi-fi). There is only one button (HOME) and you just use your fingers to navigate its many features on its 3-1/2 inch screen. The Coverflow feature lets you view your album covers as if in a moving rack. Just touch the album and you can select your music.
There are a few downsides to this attractive iPod. Apple could have boosted the memory. Currently it is available in 8GB (1750 songs) or 16GB (3500 songs). Hopefully, future versions will have more memory at the same price points.
When you open the box, the only instructions is a small foldout giving you absolutely minimal instructions. A mini-manual would have worked better.
Since most functions work with just your finger on the glass screen, it does leave fingerprints. Of course, these can be easily cleaned, but it is a problem if you want to keep it looking clean.
This is a great device and once you get the hang of it, a pleasure to use. If Apple would boost the memory size, it would be an MP3 player for the world to beat.
Customer Review: An iPod that deserves the "i"...
Summary: 5 Stars
Years before the iPod touch came out, the general populace seemed to designate such a fantasy device the "iPod touch". And just after iPhone was introduced, it seemed to many somewhat unlikely that a touch screen iPod would have any internet capability or use a flash drive.
Apple's execution surprised and disappointed many, who'd been (retrospectively, unreasonably) expecting a high-capacity, hard-drive based "iPod touch"; not taking into consideration that such a drive coupled with the touch screen would cripple battery life. This is why the Touch uses such a limited capacity.
HOWEVER, OS X and Safari browser *IN*(!!!) this itineration of iPod ensure its reign over probably any other multimedia device on the market. 8GBs is not much, but it is most likely NOT too little for the casual video-watcher; 8GBs of music is thousands of songs. I have 2.5GBs left after almost 300 photos, 2 hours of videos, and 500 songs, which make up all of my library. iTunes Music Store is now not your only (legal) resource for music and video; with a public wi-fi connection or a home router, Safari and YouTube make it foolproof to stream just about any song or music video for free, instantly. This thing just seems alarmingly capable to me and my family.
Simply put, the "i" in iPod now stands for "infinite." It's not perfect, but it's still stunning.
Customer Review: Best value as an iPod I ever owned
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an amazing piece of technology. I will skip all the iPhone like features, such as multi-touch.
Pro:
- Best iPod user interface ever
- Enjoy quite some useful and fun 3rd party apps if you jailbreak
- Official 3rd party apps on the way
- Works as iPod, and PDA: Calendar, Email, Notes, Internet via WiFi (if jailbreaked)
- Light weight and slim compared to Nokia's N800/N810, easy to cary around
- Running Mac OS X which is UNIX, although this is a stripped version
- Screen is quite scratch proof
- Possibly could do VOIP in the near future
Con:
- Back of the iPod is easily scratched, it is an design flaw since the beginning of iPods
- Battery life is OK but should have been better
- Limited storage space due to high price of Flash memory
- Have to jailbreak it to maximize funcionality
- Apple intended to limit the funcion of iPod touch (compared to iPhone, it does not have a bunch of apps which could have been working without any problem)
Bottom line:
This is the most useful iPod I ever owned. I wanted a PDA for a long time. All the other iPods I owned can be only used to listening to music, but this iPod can do so much more. It is well worth the money. To maximize its funcionality, you have to jailbreak it.
Customer Review: Crazy Fun IPod
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, at first I thought it was a little radical with all the bells and whistles and what not, but when I used my friends, I was sold. I was deciding to get a new IPod because my old gen.1 Nano was starting to 'go' if you know what I mean. I have always been a nano lover, and I was gonna buy the Nano. Then I got curious, I looked into the Touch a little and was amazed. Then a couple of weeks later, my friend got one, and let me try it out. AMAZING. It's pros definetly outway it's cons.
PROS:
1. The nice slim body plate. It's cool how nice and small they got it for something with so much.
2. Even though this part is half pro half con (because you'll rarely use it after a while) The internet is REALLY nice.
3. Very nice looking.
4. Light weight design.
5. Many things to keep you occupied BESIDES listening to music.
CONS:
1. It's a bit over priced.
2. Kinda tricky to get used to, especially if you're used to other IPods.
3. Not really that much of a con, but some of the bells and whistles become not used after a couple of weeks.
So the answer to the all important question:
"Should I buy one?"
If you can afford it: YES!
Customer Review: iTouch - More than Just Cool
Summary: 5 Stars
Mine is a 1st generation 8Gig iTouch. Sure, I'd like a 2nd generation and more Gigs, but this unit works fine, sounds fine, and is holding up fine.
My battery does not hold a charge as long as I'd like, and it never did. I'm not sure if I didn't condition the battery right when it was new, or if I over charged it too much early on, but that's about the only issue I have with it. I didn't pay the costly service fee to Apple for the protection, and I see that a replacement battery costs a lot to have done at Apple. So, I've done my research, and when it's time, I will get a battery from the internet and I will install it myself.
There's enough reviews that discuss all it's options so I won't go on and on about those. I will day that I love the way that iTunes keeps my iTouch and all of my applications that are on it updated. I have games, online Wifi tools, utilities, movies, TV shows, pictures, and of course music on this thing. It works great.
I use a DLO Leather Folio Case to keep this protected (click on that link to see my review of the case). I also have a clear screen protector on it - and that has worked fine too.