I have to get (3) iPhones for my family plan, so 32GB is looking good! I use smartlists and rotate my smartlists and my movies on a regular basis.
32 GB iPhone all the way.
Mind if I ask which part of music syncing you're having trouble with? Not trying to be a smartass, but I find iTunes' music syncing options to be plentiful and excellent.
2. How is syncing a pain in the ass. That is just ridiculous logic when you sync the iPhone and iPod Touch exactly the same way.
3. You said that you never use your iPhone as a an iPod in point number 2. Now you say is it worth giving up the features which I quote "(all of which I use)" Stating that term like that implies that you use the features reasonably regularly. Again you are making no sensical argument.
When your music collection is less than the capacity of your iPod you can set itunes to automatically sync all songs. So one simply needs to attach their ipod to their computer after updating their library and itunes does its magic.
When your ipod's capacity is less than your library obviously this is not an option. So the next best thing to do is check and uncheck content, as far as syncing goes this works perfectly, but it creates another problem. When playing music in itunes, if you are playing an unchecked item, when it finishes, itunes will jump to the next checked item, so you can't even listen to an unchecked album. I did create a playlist called "iPhone" so that i can have my entire library checked, but I don't like having the playlist cluttering my itunes.
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When your ipod's capacity is less than your library obviously this is not an option. So the next best thing to do is check and uncheck content, as far as syncing goes this works perfectly, but it creates another problem. When playing music in itunes, if you are playing an unchecked item, when it finishes, itunes will jump to the next checked item, so you can't even listen to an unchecked album. I did create a playlist called "iPhone" so that i can have my entire library checked, but I don't like having the playlist cluttering my itunes.
also one more reason why im hesitant to jump for the touch is it doesn't come with a dock and wall charger right? Just the usb cable.
...no ipod comes with a dock or wall charger. (first time buyer id assume?)
My 40 GB 4G iPod came with both.
Granted, that was a few years ago.
And to answer the question, I have absolutely no interest in the iPod touch, so the answer is easy for me.
I'd take an 8GB iPhone over a 128GB iPod touch.
The headphone button will unfortunately have no effect on an iPod touch.
...no ipod comes with a dock or wall charger. (first time buyer id assume?)
Thank you.
ok, whatever, I'll extend my statement to "I'm hesitant to jump for any ipod because they don't come with the wall charger or dock". I mean to getting comparable accesories to make a touch on par with a iPhone costs another 80 bucks (30 and 50)(granted the dock is universal and has a remote though i suppose).
And like someone just pointed out 4th gen ipods did....
reading how the 32GB might be $699, I don't know if I will fork out that kind of money for it. I might stick with the 16GB, unless the prices are wrong.
Where'd you read this?? $700 for a damn phone? That means the 16 gig would be $600, and if they release an 8 gig, $500. That's ri-damn-diculous. I can see $500 for the higher-end model, then $400 for the middle range, and $300 for the low, but who the hell do they expect to shell out $300 short of $1,000 for a fancy phone?
I agree. When Apple stopped including the wall charger and other accessories (starting with the 5th gen I believe), I thought that was a weak move. I don't expect them to throw in a universal dock and component cables... but at least include the wall charger.
Of course, I bought a 5th gen anyway, but we had it good with the old iPods... My 2nd Gen iPod came with a firewire cable, wall charger, belt clip case, and a remote! Perhaps we should be thankful they even include the earbuds...
DCBass
I can see $500 for the higher-end model, then $400 for the middle range, and $300 for the low, but who the hell do they expect to shell out $300 short of $1,000 for a fancy phone?
personally i would go for the iphone. the ipod touch always seemed like a poor mans iphone. however for my entire music collection i refuse to use itunes anyway. takes to much time and looks ugly with out art.