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New iPod Touch and iPod Nano Begin Shipping, Photos and Benchmarks Posted
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Do your research before commenting. That's been the same for a while. Sorry others don't base a product off your opinion of the packaging. Also, they're not going to give you special packaging for getting the 64GB model, they just do not care.
The image of the test results in the first post shows an L2 cache of 1024 MB - isn't that the RAM?
Many many people don't have an interest in a cell phone, nor do they need the constant connectivity. It is often used in the same ways as an iPad Wifi, but it is pocketable and more portable.
Choice is good, I just hope Apple produces more variety of iOS devices in the future.
Agreed. The new Touch is a solid update over the previous generation. But the new Nano… well it just seems to confirm that Apple doesn't know what the hell to do with the Nano. It's as if it's caught in some hellish Groundhog Day loop that it can't get out of. Looked like they were going somewhere interesting with the last version and the wrist watch concept… but nope.
Quite a number of us either can't afford or don't want to pay for a smartphone, but would appreciate many of the smartphone features offered by the iPod touch. I don't need persistent Internet and the iPod touch + dumbphone is highly economical, saving me somewhere above $600/year (that's after factoring in the cost of my dumbphone plan) when compared to getting an iPhone on contract, which is no trivial savings.
I also heard of parents giving iPod touches to their kids as a cheaper alternative to a smartphone.
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It's blazing fast. I upgraded from my iPhone 4... And when on LTE or good wifi, web pages load faster than my quad-core MBP...
Aside from not everyone having a smartphone of cell phone at all, some people don't like the current smart phone they have and see the iPod touch as being able to do tasks their smartphone can't or do them much better.
It says 1024 KB as in kilobytes.
It most likely has 512MB or RAM like the iPad 2, iPhone 4S, and Apple TV3 that all have the same A5 chip.
Right. The iPod Touch is a great music and gaming device for kids who don't need a mobile phone. As wi-fi becomes more ubiquitous, it's also a pretty handy communications device in its own right!
Nope, that's 1,024 KB of L2 cache, which is a CPU cache, not system memory. A Japanese site (found by another MR user) posted the GeekBench screenshot confirming 512 MB of RAM, as many have suspected:
http://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/000/111/111740/
Valid points. I guess I just feel like $299 is expensive for what it does. Sounds like a pretty good upgrade.
I just moved to Asia and yes, I'm rocking the dumb phone + my locked iPhone 4S as an iPod Touch and it's been great. I don't make a ton of calls or texts here so the dumb phone is kind of collecting dust. And the iPhone has MagicJack, Line and WhatsApp plus Facebook so nobody is out of touch.
AT&T said they would unlock my iPhone this month but depending on what the rates are here, I might stick with this combo honestly. My old jobs required me to take and make a million cell phone calls a day but not anymore.
Sarcasm? Or did you misread the chart?
The difference between the iPad 2 compared to the new iPad is negligable.
Yeah... WhatsApp would be great to have on the Touch (without Jailbreak).
Would switch from iPhone 4 to "dumb Phone" plus iPod Touch in that case
