Nov 17 2007
My First iPod
Last Saturday I bought my very first iPod, I’m moving into the bling generation now!
The iPod Touch is a slick little device that serves as a replacement for my dearly (not!) departed Dell Axim x50v.
After my Dell PDA met it’s end, I needed a new PDA but I have been very disillusioned with the Windows Mobile devices, yet I am addicted to PDAs! After reading every review I could find, it looked to me that the device that would suit my needs best was an iPhone. Poor me, I live in Canada, where cellular providers are non competitive and cellular data rates mean that Canada will likely be the last of the developed world countries to have the iPhone, if ever. So next up was the iPod touch.
The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone with a bunch of stuff removed, most notably the phone. It also is missing a camera and a couple of applications and is available in two versions. The difference in price between the 16GB and 8GB versions was approximately $120, a little steep in my mind so I opted for 8GB. I was immediately impressed with the user interface of this little device. It was easy to use, easy to set up with my iTunes, and easy to get the music I wanted to synchronize with it. The calendar and address book applications can synchronize with both iCal and the address book on my MacBook Pro, as well I was able to synchronize with my Outlook on my work computer. The calendar application is crippled compared to the iPhone in that it does not allow you to create calendar events, but I didn’t find that a must have requirement for me, I just wanted to carry a copy of my calendar with me.
802.11g wireless is blazingly fast compared with the two previous Window mobile devices I have owned. The Safari web browser is very snappy and it’s multi touch zoom functionality is slick. I encountered a couple of bugs with Safari, one where I was not able to access hyperlinks within a web page, and another where I could not alter the contents of an input box (i.e. to refine a google search). The first bug went away with a reset and I have yet to encounter it again, the second is an annoyance, but I can work around it.
All up, I am very impressed with the iPod Touch. It is slim, has a beautiful screen, it is easy to use and by the way, it plays music too!
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