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Mar 08, 2008
So close, but yet so far.
1 of 1 found this helpful I kept the Touch that I bought here on eBay for about a week before reselling it. It's a very cool gadget, to be sure, but it has some slightly boneheaded design flaws that stop it from being a keeper. Many of the advantages of the iPod Touch are also disadvantages after a few days' use.
Pros:
1. Touch-screen interface. Works as Apple claims. Very cool.
2. Wifi and touch-screen/zoom-action Safari browser. VERY cool.
3. The actual iPod library interface, including playlists, is one of the best ones around. Cover-flow, etc, works better on the Touch than it does on iTunes on my fairly fast laptop.
4. It is *hackable*, meaning you can add all kinds of third-party, open-source applications.
Cons:
1. Touch-screen interface. This is not an iPod that you can use while driving. To get to the playback controls, you have to double-click on the home button, then touch the screen to hit the play/pause button, instead of having an actual tactile button. In the time it takes to get to the screen and make sure you've hit the on-screen button, you could have a wreck. The same holds true for volume control. You also can't control it if it's in your pocket for the same reasons. The volume control is very difficult to use, because of the touch-screen interface, and doesn't have a whole lot of steps between volume levels. The on-screen keyboard is pretty cool, but it's a case of repetitive strain injury waiting to happen.
2. Safari works great, but it is a little slow-loading, even with a decent connection. If you have more than one browser window open and go from one page back to another one, Safari will frequently reload the whole thing from the beginning instead of keeping it in memory, which is really slow. No Flash support, because Steve Jobs doesn't like it, apparently.
3. The music library is very finicky in how you organize your artist names. "Siouxsie and The Banshees" will be listed separately from "Siouxsie and the Banshees." Yes, that single capital "T" messes it up -- that, my friends, is boneheaded programming.
4. The "jailbreak" method of getting third-party applications onto the iTouch makes it a little buggy and causes Safari to crash. Restoring the non-jailbroken firmware fixes it, but then you can't use the cool apps that you just installed on the iTouch.
All in all, I would say the iPod Touch is a great little gadget, but it's definitely more cool than actually useful. Personally, I think an actual 16GB or 32GB iPod Nano would have been a more logical progression, but then, I don't work for Apple. Perhaps I'm just not as susceptible to Reality Distortion Fields as other people.