Ipod touch
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I've never had a problem carrying a laptop backpack with a 17" on any plane, even the little ones between Minneapolis and Des Moines with 4 seats across. They just won't let you take a second carry-on. But maybe you're talking smaller - planes aren't really my forte.
I went from the 30g iPod video to the 8g touch. I love mine. I don't mind not having my full library of music with me. I keep all my music on my touch and all of my photos (some 4,800 of them) on my iPhone.
When it comes to watching video, I found that the battery life on the touch was great. I flew from DSM to orlando with one connection and watched 4 hour long shows on the trip down. I didn't have any eye strain and the battery did better than my macbook pro battery would have.
Internet on the touch and the iphone is fantastic. I like being able to get on whenever with the iphone, but i'm always near a wifi, so the touch always comes in handy.
When it comes to watching video, I found that the battery life on the touch was great. I flew from DSM to orlando with one connection and watched 4 hour long shows on the trip down. I didn't have any eye strain and the battery did better than my macbook pro battery would have.
Internet on the touch and the iphone is fantastic. I like being able to get on whenever with the iphone, but i'm always near a wifi, so the touch always comes in handy.
You have a touch and an iPhone? Why? They're almost exactly the same thing... Also, why do you need to bring five thousand pictures with you everywhere you go?
Mostly because I'm a huge fan of Apple's products. But, I've had about 5 different versions of the iPod and I think the touch is the best iPod they've ever made.
While the iPhone and iPod Touch effectively do the same things, the iPhone has many more functions that I love having that the Touch doesn't have (maps, weather). If anything, I would be fine if the iPhone didn't have an ipod on it. I actually don't keep any music on my phone. It's all on my touch.
I've shot lots of photos for my job and I have them all on my computer. I chose to have all my photos backed up on my iPhone. Not that I need to carry ALL of them, but I like having them just in case!
I'm with you - I have the 60 gb Video to keep the majority of my TV shows/movies on and use on long trips, and the 16gb Touch for more everyday use. I keep an 8gb Nano in my purse, too. I'm also an iPod fanatic - a lot of my disposable income goes there. :mask: I would have rather gotten an iPhone than a Touch, but I have Verizon.
I hate to say it, but I happily paid the $200 termination fee to get the hell away from T-Mobile.
I've never heard anything good about T-Mobile around here - some friends said they were the best around when they lived in OK, but their service dropped dramatically when they moved back here. I can't convince my husband to leave Verizon and our family plan early for a phone I don't really "need".
Precisely why I plan on using them like chumps. I'm about to recontract with US Cellular, but I'm not sure what phone I want yet. I'm going to sign up with T-Mobile under their "try us for 30 days for free", pay whatever I need to in order to try one of the phones I'm looking at, and then cancel after 3 weeks of service, once I have a good idea about the phone. I feel a little bad about doing it, but T-Mobile sales reps treated me like dirt the last time I was in their store, so I have no remorse.
I don't think anyone would blame you, if they don't even attempt to get/keep your business. I used to be with US Cellular - I needed more of a nationwide plan than they offered at the time (which is why we switched), but that was really my only complaint.
It was beautiful when I switched from my T-Mobile sidekick to the iPhone. I didn't even have to talk to one of the "helpful" folks at t-mobile. I just activated my iphone and it canceled t-mobile for me. Outstanding.
The iPhone does NOT have broadband connectivity outside of Wifi. The EDGE network is only marginally faster than dialup. To get true broadband while mobile, you'll either need to be on an EVDO network (Sprint or Verizon), or have a GPRS-enabled phone, which the iPhone is not.
I don't have an iPod, but I did get a nokia N800 internet tablet for christmas. It does everything the iPod touch does, and then some, but with a bigger screen. It also supports bluetooth dialup, through a phone-as-a-modem, so you can connect anywhere you have cell service. I have Sprint and EVDO, so I can get near-broadband speeds pretty much anywhere.
It doesn't come with much storage, but it uses standard SD cards, and you can put up to 32GB worth of those in it (those are extra, however. 8 GB cards are running ~40 bucks).
It can also be paired with a bluetooth GPS receiver, and used as a navigation system. It has a built-in IM client, as well as a pop-out webcam. It's really a pretty slick toy. A little bigger form factor than an iPod touch, but overall it's pretty slick. Web browser works great, and comes with flash, so even sites like youtube work on it (not the mobile youtube, the real one). CF looks just like it does on a real computer, just smaller, but you can zoom.
I also picked up a bluetooth keyboard for like 30 bucks that folds up and can fit in your pocket, so you can turn the whole thing into sort of a tiny laptop.
It's really not the same thing as the touch, but it does some of the same stuff, and they are about 230 bucks on Amazon.
I like the iPod devices, but I think the new Zunes are a better value for just playing music and video, and iTunes is simply horrible. Plus I hate converting all my video to the format that the iPod has to have. If you're looking for a web browser, the reliance on wifi is pretty annoying. I generally want to use a web browser on a tiny device when I don't have a desktop or laptop available, or when I'm somewhere where those things aren't practical to use. There often isn't a wifi (or at least a free wifi) hotspot available, so i tend to use either my Treo or the n800 through bluetooth dialup through the Treo quite a bit while on the road.
Again, the touch is alright, but overpriced for what it does, IMO (just like pretty much everything Apple makes).
Can anyone help me with this quandry: I am thinking of getting an iPhone, because my current phone is a low end POS. I am with US Cellular who obviously doesn't offer the iPhone, at least not yet that I am aware of. What can I do so that I can use an iPhone with US Cellular without having to change providers? Do I need to like change my plan with them as well? I have heard something about needing to take out a sim card or something like that from current phone and put into the iPhone, but I don't even think my current phone has one. I am definitely an idiot when it comes to phone electronics. Any help will definitely warrant rep.
As of right now you cannot use an iphone with US Cellular. The iphone does not work with cdma networks that US Cellular, Verizon, and Sprint use. Last I heard Apple didn't even have plans to release a cdma version of the iphone.
I've heard about that Nokia N800 from a few friends that have it. They all thought it was great at first, but since many wanted something similar to an iPhone without paying iPhone prices, they were a little disappointed. of course, they knew it wasn't a phone, but they complained that the little periscope camera took pretty bad pictures and that there was no built in hard drive. They also didn't like having to buy the separate keyboard just to type longer emails.
I think it's all about what you're going to use the device for. I see bonuses and downsides to both products. For my money, I'll take the apple product any day.
I think it's all about what you're going to use the device for. I see bonuses and downsides to both products. For my money, I'll take the apple product any day.
The ONLY network the iPhone is sold on is AT&T. It's conceivable you could get it to work on T-mobile, since they are both GSM networks, however somethings (such as visual voice mail) might not work. It will not now, nor probably ever, work on Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular, or any other CDMA network.
It's not an iPhone, that's for sure. The camera does kinda stink, but it's not designed to take pictures, it's designed to do VTC-type stuff. There isn't a built in hard drive, but you can put 32 GB of memory in it, and that's more than any flash-based iPod - touch or iPhone included. You can type just as easily on the built in screen-based keyboard as you can with the iPhone or iPod touch, IMO. While it isn't a phone, you can use it with Skype, provided you have a network connection, and it works quite nicely for that.
If you just want to use it to peruse the web, I think it's better than the iPhone or touch, provided you have a PAM plan somewhere. It's every bit as functional, and then some, as the iPhone or iPod touch for listening to music and watching video.
Being able to replace the battery, and upgrade the storage without buying a new device are certainly plusses in my book as well.
ATT has an exclusive in the US for several more years; they are GSM. The European carriers are GSM also. So it's very unlikely Apple will make a CDMA version anytime soon if ever. Verizon is moving to GSM also. If you don't like ATT you can unlock your iPhone and move to something like Tmobile; which is GSM.
Verizon is not moving to GSM. They are planning on rolling out a 4g LTE data network, which is what GSM's next data network will be, however, the voice network will continue to be CDMA for the foreseeable future. So they will be selling phones with CDMA for voice, and "GSM" for data.
AT&T and T-Mobile are the only real options in the US for GSM now and probably for the next couple generations of the iPhone. It will be at least 2010 or later before any of the CDMA providers move to GSM, if they do at all.
