The New iPod Touch

they want to sell their little itunes - the radio is free and that's not good for business

there's a worm in my apple

the new touch is a bargain. you can get a contractless iphone for $229 (8gb). It has a fucking retina display! RETINA!!! FM radio should have happened.

$49 for a new shuffle is huge. I'll probably get one just to make things easier at the gym.

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:27 AM, chris moss acid said:

does it have a mic? if so you can use it as a iphone using skype

Or googlemail phone (at leats in the US and Canada)

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:42 AM, chris moss acid said:

yes. you can get a iphone 3gs 8GB for $99 and you can get a ipod touch for like $200. no sense.

99 with a contract (even free), how much does that contract set you back every month?

I might give my old touch to my kid :)

  On 9/2/2010 at 4:48 AM, chenGOD said:

I might give my old touch to my kid :)

  On 9/2/2010 at 3:20 AM, iamabe said:

the new touch is a bargain. you can get a contractless iphone for $229 (8gb). It has a fucking retina display! RETINA!!! FM radio should have happened.

 

$49 for a new shuffle is huge. I'll probably get one just to make things easier at the gym.

man... my glistening, shimmering nutz would totally encompass that nano! no sense slippin' n' slidin... just plop deez nutz on it!

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:57 AM, chris moss acid said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:52 AM, KY said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:42 AM, chris moss acid said:

yes. you can get a iphone 3gs 8GB for $99 and you can get a ipod touch for like $200. no sense.

 

sense = $99 with a contract

 

 

i am personally really happy with the improvements on the ipod touch, but i've been meaning to get an iphone for awhile now so i'm holding out.

 

well i got mine free with a contract.

You will evently pay all for your iphone with the data plan over the years.

  On 9/1/2010 at 8:40 PM, Joy Rex said:

Goddamn, I really thought I was finally going to be able to get an iPod of my own (my wife and kids have Nanos and Touches, respectively), but since I listen to National Public Radio on my way to work on the bus, I've held off getting one because only with the last gen of Nanos did they put in a FM radio. I was really hoping the Touch would finally get one on the next hardware refresh, but alas, it was not to be (yet).

in theory the iphone chip would be able to receive radio but they simply do not enable the feature (for what ever reason is beyond me) still you can buy some FM transmitter hardware

Epic Citadel

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epic-citadel/id388888815#

The tech demo is available as free download

bye bye psp and nintendo ds

  On 9/2/2010 at 4:52 PM, Joy Rex said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:27 AM, chris moss acid said:

does it have a mic? if so you can use it as a iphone using skype

 

You can do iTouch to iPhone calls using Facetime, apparently (over WiFi)

 

  On 9/2/2010 at 4:47 PM, o00o said:

  On 9/1/2010 at 8:40 PM, Joy Rex said:

Goddamn, I really thought I was finally going to be able to get an iPod of my own (my wife and kids have Nanos and Touches, respectively), but since I listen to National Public Radio on my way to work on the bus, I've held off getting one because only with the last gen of Nanos did they put in a FM radio. I was really hoping the Touch would finally get one on the next hardware refresh, but alas, it was not to be (yet).

 

in theory the iphone chip would be able to receive radio but they simply do not enable the feature (for what ever reason is beyond me) still you can buy some FM transmitter hardware

 

No, I want it as part of the UI, and not some damn thing loosely connected through the charging port on the bottom.

You and the other old farts in the peanut gallery. lol

I'll get off your lawn now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtAtk-Vwljc

mirrors edge has been released today for iphone and ipod touch by the way

  On 9/1/2010 at 8:40 PM, Joy Rex said:

I listen to National Public Radio on my way to work on the bus, I've held off getting one because only with the last gen of Nanos did they put in a FM radio.

NPR does have a 24 hour stream. Quite good (quality) and useful.

http://www.npr.org/audiohelp/progstream.html

I assume ipod can stream .pls format yes?

I've never owned one. I love using my droid as my mp3 player these days, it is well organized and I just have never gotten into apple stuff, so it's a nice alternative.

I suppose I understand the reasons to have both an iphone/droid and an ipod. I got a nano first, and just recently got a droid. I use both since I have them, but I think I could be happy using just a droid with a larger SD card. Incoming call interruptions and incompatibility with xbox 360 would be the few drawbacks.

  On 9/2/2010 at 4:38 PM, Philip Glass said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:57 AM, chris moss acid said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:52 AM, KY said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:42 AM, chris moss acid said:

yes. you can get a iphone 3gs 8GB for $99 and you can get a ipod touch for like $200. no sense.

 

sense = $99 with a contract

 

 

i am personally really happy with the improvements on the ipod touch, but i've been meaning to get an iphone for awhile now so i'm holding out.

 

well i got mine free with a contract.

 

You will evently pay all for your iphone with the data plan over the years.

£35 a month free everything (calls, texts, internet). no complaints.

x's2 on the Cowon. DO IT.

I really think the iPhone is pure sex, but it's one of those luxury items I can't justify the expense. Don't know if things are different overseas, but there are no longer "unlimited" data plans for the iPhone - if you add up all the individual things you need to buy (calls/messaging/data) the cost starts to balloon into something that's (imhop) totally unreasonable. Pretty sure it's more like $90 U.S. or something outlandish like that.

  On 9/2/2010 at 7:12 PM, chris moss acid said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 4:38 PM, Philip Glass said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:57 AM, chris moss acid said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:52 AM, KY said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 12:42 AM, chris moss acid said:

yes. you can get a iphone 3gs 8GB for $99 and you can get a ipod touch for like $200. no sense.

 

sense = $99 with a contract

 

 

i am personally really happy with the improvements on the ipod touch, but i've been meaning to get an iphone for awhile now so i'm holding out.

 

well i got mine free with a contract.

 

You will evently pay all for your iphone with the data plan over the years.

 

£35 a month free everything (calls, texts, internet). no complaints.

35 quid a month for 2 years = 840 pounds. Yer definitely paying for the iPhone.

  On 9/2/2010 at 6:56 PM, Brandi_B said:

  On 9/1/2010 at 8:40 PM, Joy Rex said:

I listen to National Public Radio on my way to work on the bus, I've held off getting one because only with the last gen of Nanos did they put in a FM radio.

 

NPR does have a 24 hour stream. Quite good (quality) and useful.

 

http://www.npr.org/audiohelp/progstream.html

 

I assume ipod can stream .pls format yes?

 

I've never owned one. I love using my droid as my mp3 player these days, it is well organized and I just have never gotten into apple stuff, so it's a nice alternative.

Yes, but unless I have an iPhone with 3G access, I won't be able to use that, since I am on the bus while I listen to NPR. If our METRO buses had free WiFi on them, then that's another matter.

I haven't read this whole thread yet, so it my question may be answered, but is there any word on the audio quality?

I'd like to get one of these, but my Sony mp3 player has damn fine audio, and I wouldn't want to jump if it means a compromise in music quality.

  On 9/2/2010 at 8:33 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

I haven't read this whole thread yet, so it my question may be answered, but is there any word on the audio quality?

 

I'd like to get one of these, but my Sony mp3 player has damn fine audio, and I wouldn't want to jump if it means a compromise in music quality.

Erm, audio quality would depend on:

A) The quality of the rips of your music

B) The quality of your headphones

Yes, the decoding software on the device matters too, but to my knowledge there's never been complaints about that with any generation of iPods. I think audio from them sounds superb, myself.

  On 9/2/2010 at 8:33 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

I haven't read this whole thread yet, so it my question may be answered, but is there any word on the audio quality?

 

I'd like to get one of these, but my Sony mp3 player has damn fine audio, and I wouldn't want to jump if it means a compromise in music quality.

supposedly the audio quality on regular ipods (i dont know about touch) has deteriorated each generation.

  On 9/2/2010 at 9:12 PM, 24ourange said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 8:33 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

I haven't read this whole thread yet, so it my question may be answered, but is there any word on the audio quality?

 

I'd like to get one of these, but my Sony mp3 player has damn fine audio, and I wouldn't want to jump if it means a compromise in music quality.

 

supposedly the audio quality on regular ipods (i dont know about touch) has deteriorated each generation.

And where'd you hear/read/see/imagine that?

i wonder what the capacity of the next generation of ipod classic will be?

  On 9/2/2010 at 9:13 PM, Joy Rex said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 9:12 PM, 24ourange said:

  On 9/2/2010 at 8:33 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

I haven't read this whole thread yet, so it my question may be answered, but is there any word on the audio quality?

 

I'd like to get one of these, but my Sony mp3 player has damn fine audio, and I wouldn't want to jump if it means a compromise in music quality.

 

supposedly the audio quality on regular ipods (i dont know about touch) has deteriorated each generation.

 

And where'd you hear/read/see/imagine that?

on the internet. It was one of the factors that lead me to buy a zune instead. I remember reading that the audio chips in 2nd or 3rd generation ipods had the best audio chips out of any of their successors, and ipod has been using lower quality audio chips for subsequent generations, with the 6th generation being the "worst". I'm not saying they have bad audio quality, just that they don't make them like they used to.

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2007/09/ipod-classics-s/

I listen to NPR via the app on my iPad. Whilst drinking coffee. In a coffee shop. Where the drums are playing on the shop stereo.

Smoke that!

  On 9/2/2010 at 9:22 PM, 24ourange said:

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2007/09/ipod-classics-s/

'golden-eared audiophiles' ...lol