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iPod Touch (a Touch OS X device)

emotion said:
It's interesting to note SE and Nokia's strategy to deal with this.

I still think HSDPA is a better bet than wifi. The roaming and not having to sign on the wifi networks means HSDPA just works better than wifi (currently).
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I agree but isn't HSDPA technology dependent? Wouldn't you have to have a certain carrier? WIFI is open for everyone as long as you have that wireless technology in your device, and G & N are compatible with previous versions of WIFI.

Christopher
 
emotion said:
It's interesting to note SE and Nokia's strategy to deal with this.

I still think HSDPA is a better bet than wifi. The roaming and not having to sign on the wifi networks means HSDPA just works better than wifi (currently).
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Unless you have unlimited data package HSDPA is going to cost you.
 
A question about the touch keyboard....

Hey all, a question for you all:

When browsing in Safari, is there a way to bring up the qwerty keyboard whenever you need it?

Sorry if this has already been answered, I read a whole lotta posts but couldnt find mention of it.

I only ask in terms of writing an email though gmail, or sending sms through intazaar, as well as maany other potentials if you could just pull the keybouard up whenever you wanted to use it.......

Thanks in advance :)
 
jacktiernan said:
Hey all, a question for you all:

When browsing in Safari, is there a way to bring up the qwerty keyboard whenever you need it?

Sorry if this has already been answered, I read a whole lotta posts but couldnt find mention of it.

I only ask in terms of writing an email though gmail, or sending sms through intazaar, as well as maany other potentials if you could just pull the keybouard up whenever you wanted to use it.......

Thanks in advance :)
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It seemed that way from the demo
 
O and A said:
i wish it had speakers on it when showing friend youtube videos. that would have been nice.
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Yeah that would be nice. I wish it had at least wimpy speakers, but I guess I will get by anyway. But remember, you can always plug it into external speakers.
 
elgruga said:
If you need the other stuff buy the iPhone - ITS THE SAME FRIGGING PRICE! (and you get a phone)
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Thats how I feel (I wish I didnt have Verizon) but realistically with the iPhone, all of those awesome Mail and Safari features come with a monthly fee, while the iPod touch gets it for free after you buy the touch itself.
 
Hopefully by Sept. 28th Apple will put add Mail and allow users to add event to the iCal application. It would also be cool if Apple added features for .Mac customers. Im waiting until its actual release to decide whether or not I want one, but I'd love to be able to use as a PDA-like device/ mobile internet for when I'm in my boring college lectures.
 
ipodT compatible with AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes?

Does anyone know if the ipod touch will be able to stream music through wifi to an 'AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes' allowing you to play music over your wireless network to your home stereo or powered speakers??? now that would be amazing!
 
erwinmayer said:
Does anyone know if the ipod touch will be able to stream music through wifi to an 'AirPort Express Base Station with AirTunes' allowing you to play music over your wireless network to your home stereo or powered speakers??? now that would be amazing!
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Probably not. But I wouldn't be one bit surprised if that functionality would be announced in the future. And in addition to that, they would also announce capability to stream content TO the touch through AirTunes. That would go long way towards negating to complaints about storage-space.

EDIT: Well, not _stream_ content to the touch, but access media that is shared over AirTunes through touch
 
So with all these current standard apps on the Touch, how much actual GB does it have for tunes? On the 16gb are we looking at more like 14gb of available song space?
 
jacktiernan said:
Hey all, a question for you all:

When browsing in Safari, is there a way to bring up the qwerty keyboard whenever you need it?

Sorry if this has already been answered, I read a whole lotta posts but couldnt find mention of it.

I only ask in terms of writing an email though gmail, or sending sms through intazaar, as well as maany other potentials if you could just pull the keybouard up whenever you wanted to use it.......

Thanks in advance :)
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It'll bring up the keyboard whenever a text-entry field is selected.
 
Strategy should be clear for everyone

Reading latest news, apples strategy in positioning ipod touch becomes more clear, if someone has had any doubts.

A result from this strategy was the 200 $ cut for iphones. Thus shift more people as possible to iphone -> earn more cash as possible, due to contracts with mobile carriers. So the price for ipod touch and iphone are similiar and people would take the iphone instead of a crippled ipod touch.

Refering to latest news even the calendar has been crippled. So you could not add an event, cause the addd button is missing. Well may be contacts are crippled to. Would just be a logical step. So missing mail app + other like google map, weather, stocks etc. pointing all to make the ipod just an ipod -> hear music, watch videos. Why does it have WLAN?
Well sure, so you could buy itunes songs in starbucks for example, generating revenues.

I was expecting the ipod touch - waiting for an iphone, the best Ipod ever, without a phone. But here comes just a terrible crippled iphone for 400$, with just 16 GB - looking not really worth a buy. Most articles were expecting a new device era - so did I. An Ipod - thus hearing music, watching videos + an internet enable device to browse + download and answer your mails + apps like weather + stocks + google maps - but the reality is different.

So maybe most shoppers would just say NO. But do not shop the iphone either. Would be interesting if steve jobs would shift it strategy for the ipod touch then...
 
MacinDoc said:
How could internet access possibly be improved on the Touch without making it a phone (with the possible exception of adding Flash support)?
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Add Bluetooth so it can talk to a phone. Bluetooth adds two features both of which I'd find compelling:

1. The ability to send audio out wirelessly (I think in the medium term we're going to see car sound systems built to support that kind of thing, and integrated headphones that talk to both your phone and MP3 player without you having to hook up cables all over the place. And the best part, as usual, is that it'll all "just work".)

2. The ability to interface with your GPRS/EDGE/EV-DO/UMTS/WiMAX cellphone/wireless modem for those occasions where Wifi isn't available.

See previous conversations for why I wouldn't want an iPhone (the summary: low capacity, locked to a carrier, locked software, not something I'd want to use as my primary phone.)
 
Zwhaler said:
Yeah that would be nice. I wish it had at least wimpy speakers, but I guess I will get by anyway. But remember, you can always plug it into external speakers.
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And the iPhone has half the storage.

I still don't see why they couldn't just sell it unlocked, or not demand money from your contract, to make the iPhone more affordable. The iPhone costs a lot more than the initial money to buy the hardware.
 
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