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| Review: iPod touch |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-10-10 16:51:24 |
| The Verge reviews the iPod touch, and it's as good as ever. "This year's iPod touch is the best one ever, without question - Apple updated all the right things, and by giving the touch a big screen and good camera has made this mini tablet a more versatile device than ever. As a gateway drug into the iOS ecosystem, it does a great job of showing off all the iOS 6 features and apps, on a really solid piece of hardware. It's also a great way to get into the huge iOS ecosystem without putting an expensive data plan on your account - and thanks to iMessage, FaceTime, and Skype, there's a lot of communicating you can do just over Wi-Fi." The iPod touch rarely gets the spotlight, but I think it's actually one of the best and most clever products in Apple's portfolio. Not only is it simply a fantastic product, it also has zero competition. My best friend is pretty much in love with her iPod touch, and it gives her everything a smartphone has to offer without the burden of expensive contracts. For people like her, who do not want a smartphone and prefer a sturdy Nokia feature phone, the touch is a godsend. |
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| It would be perfect |
| By BeamishBoy on 2012-10-10 17:08:52 |
| if only it came with GPS. |
 - Score: 3 |
| No competition indeed |
| By WorknMan on 2012-10-10 17:10:00 |
| Google really needs to release a Tegra 3 'mini Nexus' that is around this size. The Nexus 7 is great, but not exactly a pocketable device. The Galaxy Nexus is a bit too expensive to be used as an iPod Touch-like device, and not as powerful either. |
| - Score: 3 |
| "gives her everything a smartphone has to offer" |
| By zima on 2012-10-10 17:44:56 |
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The iPod touch + "a sturdy Nokia feature phone" does seem like a fairly reasonable combination, in many cases. Except, it doesn't offer the convenience of occasionally accessing the internet from the iPod, when outside the range of WiFi. ~Technically, it could be easily done, the required tech is onboard both devices for a long time: while a typical "Nokia feature phone" often doesn't have WiFi (and if it does, being able to act as a WiFi hotspot is even rarer in such phones), it typically has Bluetooth, with the ability to act as a "modem" for, say, a laptop ...or a portable media player. However, last time I checked, iPod touch was barred from utilising its BT chip as a data pipe - Wifi only. Has that changed? (I kinda doubt it did, this "incentive" to buy the higher-priced iPhone must seem attractive to Apple managers; but I hope it did...) |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: No competition indeed |
| By DudMan on 2012-10-10 18:09:43 |
| How come no one has brought up the Galaxy Player 4.2 ? |
| - Score: 1 |
| Galaxy Player, 5.0 |
| By tomz on 2012-10-10 21:32:05 |
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Bigger - usable screen, TRUE GPS, drag and drop, use micro SD (including SDXC!), wifi transfers, many browsers, things loke Torque to shut off your check engine light. UnDRMed bluetooth. Google maps. Different mp3 players (astro player that pitch corrects from ultra slow to 6x!). Firefox or Chrome with sync... Still 2.3.5 but works really well. The 5.8 is coming soon. Or you can lock yourself into Apple's prison-farm (wallled garden with guard towers and razor wire) closed ecosystem. And that carbonized atrocity called iTunes. I have an iPod. I haven't turned it on in months. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: "gives her everything a smartphone has to offer" |
| By tomz on 2012-10-10 21:39:35 |
| Bluetooth is locked down and now also the USB. You can't even sync it to a computer without the magic apple drm-ed cable. I'm only surprised that they allow analog audio. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: It would be perfect |
| By kragil on 2012-10-10 23:03:16 |
| If wouldn't cost 50% more than a good 7 inch tablet. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE[2]: It would be perfect |
| By rain on 2012-10-11 00:56:31 |
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> If wouldn't cost 50% more than a good 7 inch tablet. Since most touch users seem to use it as a media player, gaming device and, with the recent update, a camera. How does that cheaper 7 inch tablet compare in those areas? |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: No competition indeed |
| By WorknMan on 2012-10-11 01:11:10 |
| If they had released the Galaxy Player 4.2 back in 2010, it might've been compelling ... |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[3]: No competition indeed |
| By rain on 2012-10-11 01:31:26 |
| Well, they did release player 5.8 quite recently and 5.0 is not all that old. They might be an alternative to the iPod touch for some people, especially given the price difference. |
| - Score: 1 |
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