iPod touch List of differences between iPod Touch 4 and iPhone 4

[Liquinn]

Where can I find a list of differences between the 3GS and iPod touch 3?

 

[Starship77]

Ah, yes! The good old Jefferson Starship, rising like the Phoenix from the ashes of the Jefferson Airplane!

There are some decent, $200-300 telescopes (6-8") that can show you some galaxies, especially under darker skies. (Orion Telescopes has great info on buying scopes and a good selection.) They're also great for bright star clusters, nebula, and the planets. Saturn's rings are just incredible through a scope.

I have a 7" scope and, even though I live in a small city suburb with semi-light polluted skies, I can observe galaxies that are 20-40 million light years right from my backyard!

There's lots of things to see with the naked eye, too. If you've never watched the International Space Station go across the sky, you're in for a real treat.

After Hurricane Irene went through--and cleaned out the skies here of all the usual debris--I saw the Andromeda Galaxy with the unaided eye for the first time! Amazing!

And, to keep this on topic, there are incredible astronomy apps for the iPod Touch for free or little cost (sky charts, NASA, astronomy picture of the day APOD, Moon map and phases, 3D Sun shows the Sun in different wavelengths with all its activity, Planets where they are, satellite tracking, Exoplanets showing all the latest discoveries of planets around other stars, etc.)

As to the space station, you can browse to heavens-above.com to find out when the ISS will cross the skies in your location-- or use Sputnik! or ISS Visibility on the i-devices.

Keep looking up!

Hey! Thank You Sir! I really appreciate you taking the time to write and share all those tips! I'll look around for those telescopes you said, but, unfortunately, I'm currently living in Brazil and the prices here are super high... at least twice as much as in the U.S... But anyway, I'll try to get one as soon as I can and follow your tips to start exploring. Thanks man!

 

[Saturn007]

You're welcome! Your enthusiasm for the hobby is great! I would bet that there's an active amateur astronomy community near you, whose members might have ideas and tips on telescopes and even star parties where you could attend and see the sights through the members' scopes.

Plus, I'll bet you may even find some Brazilian telescope companies! Why not? Brazil is a major economic power in the world and has a wonderful cultural and intellectual milieu. The Dobsonian reflector design is freely copyable, simple to build, and inexpensive. I would think some enterprising company is making and selling them there locally.

A 6-8" dob would really open up the heavens for you.

I envy you your southern skies! There are so many interesting sights that are not visible from the North --Omega Centauri, the richest globular cluster of the Milky Way; the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, our nearby irregular galaxies; the Coal Sack Nebula; Centauri A with dark lane; and Alpha Centauri itself.

I lived in Lima, Peru for several years, but it's cloudy there 10+ months out of the year (Humboldt Current coming up the coast). The other two months, the weather forecasts give the minutes of sunshine you had the day before, and the minutes predicted for today!

Keep looking up!

 

[Tech Elementz]

I really so care about the RAM, why iPod Touch only own a 215M? When I open my iPod Touch, the RAM only shows about 100M

In theory, the iPod Touch has 256 MB of RAM. From that ram goes to system resources (resources that keep iOS running). At that point, the rest goes to currently running apps (multitasking bar). The rest goes to the current app that you are currently using.

 

[tablo13]

No IPS screen for iPod touch = worse viewing angles and color

 

[Skika]

Does the iPod touch also have Gorilla glass?

Anyone?

 

[0098386]

The 4th generation as well as the third (excluding the 8GB model which most already know was based on the older 3G iPhone hardware) have come with headsets with volume controls.

Nope! I've got a 64gb 4G, every immediate family member bought one too (some 32gb though) from Apple, Amazon, Argos. No volume control on headphones.

iPod Touch:
-cheaper (sorta)

Not even sorta, quite a lot cheaper! A sim-free iPhone is over £500, an iPod Touch maxes out at £280. The cheapest 18 month iPhone contract is £550.