Customer Reviews:
 Cool and amazing! September 21, 2008
Purchased the 1G, 16GB iPod touch last week, should have purchased the 2G at the same price instead. In any case, I have gone through a bunch of MP3 players including a 40GB unit, but this is my first video player and my first Apple product. And an amazing, cool, powerful product it is, there is nothing like it on the market, at lease for now.
When I first unboxed touch, the user's manual is nowhere to be found so I needed to go online and download Safari and iTunes, intimidating for a PC user. Couldn't use the touch without iTunes, and iTunes wanted a credit card number to register the touch. Steve Jobs is so clever and devious, what a money making machine having access to your credit card at all times. Great if you have AAPL stocks.
iTunes is a little buggy, giving couple of error messages already and seems like having less control than I like relative to other MP3 player interfaces. My CD audio books were interpreted as songs and no way able to get it into the Audiobooks folder, unless it's purchased from iTunes. The maps GPS is not really a real GPS, like the ones for cars. Continuous wi-fi signals are not available along the freeway or even on the streets, so it's useless for real time directions on the go. Nonetheless, the touch GPS is cool and useful in other ways, hope to be updated to a real GPS. If a website require a download like Adobe Flash Player, I don't know how to do it without hacking into the touch and void the warranty. Battery replacement is around $100 by Apple, not a user replacement part. If you still want to do it, about $15 for the non Apple battery, you need to do some surgery, removing many parts and solder the battery leads on the pc board. If you are not careful and not know what you're doing, you just might render the unit useless. Why can't Jobs provide a quick disconnect terminal for the battery, so much easier. Deleting movies from the touch do not reclaim memory, and re sync the touch after deleting does not reclaim memory either, a restore has to be done. To reclaim memory, use delete from iTune via sync, not from touch. Emails are shown only in letter mode, will not rotate to landscape so fonts are small and difficult to read. For older guys like me, email should default in landscape where the fonts could be enlarged without scrolling to the left or right of the screen. As for scrolling, the touch screen is so small and my finger so big, its too easy to touch a hotlink and off you go to another website. Unfortunately stylus doesn't work on this touch screen, just too bad especially you needed to type a lengthy memo. In youtube, the video and text commentaries are gone on the touch. I'm not able to get movies to play on H.264 on any settings, has to be on mpeg4 at 320 width. Anyway, going from my 62" TV to 3.5" touch screen isn't too bad, its just not anywhere close to HD. Forget about reading subtitles, couldn't get it anyway after conversion to Mpag4. Must be doing something wrong, still learning the touch. Don't bother to use touch on a bright day, the screen washed out just like the laptops. Podcasts only play one at a time, than you have to manually start the next one, not a problem unless you are on an active mode like running. The screen is such a smudge magnet needed to clean often and the stainless steel casing is just too soft with a thousand micro scratches accumulated in just a few days. But it looked so cool! For my use, a few movies and bunch of podcasts, could have got away with an 8GB unit and let iTunes swap in and out the files.
Still such an amazing unit pack with so many advanced features. I'm looking forward to use Word and Excel with it and other applications that are already available. The free stuff on iTune is worth the cost of the touch alone. A very strong 5 stars!
iPod is Great and so is Amazon.com September 21, 2008
The Apple iPod Touch lives up to all the good reviews. It's an amazing wireless device...easy to use and a great MP3 and video player. Connecting to the internet is now a finger touch away! But just as amazing is Amazon's service. I had ordered the 1st generation iTouch and when the new version was released two weeks later, I contacted Amazon support about their new lower price. Without hesitation I was refunded the price difference. It's hard to beat a great product and great service. I highly recommend both the Apple iTouch and Amazon.com.
Incredible, useful toy, but download the $10 update to get it all! September 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this item refurbished, from Apple's website. It came in an Apple box with all the accessories listed with the new one, and a 1yr warranty. It looks brand new; not a scratch, and sync'd with my computer flawlessly, downloading music, videos, contacts, calendar (from Outlook), and my favorites (from Explorer). Many FREE applications are available from iTunes, as well as other free media, but I quickly found out that to get these, you'd better spend the extra $10 to download the 2.0 version of the software if you don't already have it.
Things that might help you get started:
1. Download and install the latest version of iTunes on your computer before you hook-up your iTouch.
2. Download the user's guide from Apple.com for the current iTouch (1st or 2nd generation). Check this out before you get going, as the iTouch manual that it came with doesn't provide much information.
3. Depending upon the battery life it shipped with, you may have to spend up to three hours charging the iTouch with the provided usb cable before you use it.
4. When you have opened up iTunes on your computer, you will need an iTunes account to get the FREE applications. A credit card number is needed to setup the account. Be careful that you don't download applications that are not free, or your credit card will be charged.
5. Once you select applications they will be in que to upload to your iTouch. Unplug your iTouch from the usb and then re-plug it in to get the iTunes software to upload your applications for your use.
6. The button on the front of the iTouch (a square icon...the only button on the front) is how you get to your 'homepage'.
7. For a wireless network that is securted (ie: your home network) you will need the security key to put in so the network can recognize the device. Have that handy as you setup your iTouch.
8. This 16GB size seems like the right choice considering price and availablity of space. I put 2800 photos and 800 songs on it and there is still tons of room.
9. Invest in a case for it. While solidly made, with a glass screen and a metal back, it needs something to protect it in a purse or briefcase.
I found this device to be so much more than the typical MP3 player or a PDA. I love the email function (just find a wi-fi spot first) and the internet capabilities. The pages for the internet load and look very small, but you can easily magnify them and scroll pages.
I do think a nice addition for future iTouch models would be a camera, but since there is so much you can do with it once you load free applications on it, I can't complain! I can see why people would buy an iPhone after getting this, but for those of us who have a phone...this is one heck of a fun additon to the electronics arsonal we carry around each day. Fun, fun, fun!!!
 Serves the purpose :) September 20, 2008
This is a good stuff, as you coud expect from Apple. Today I would probaby choose the 32GB version.
great ipod September 19, 2008
first, when i purchase this one, i thought it was an iphone. i was going to cancel it but i told myself, im gonna give it a try. and when i got it, i love it, its great, thanks
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