Customer Reviews:
 My best gadget purchase in years!! February 29, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
You will not regret buying the Touch with the software update - I am very, very happy with mine. Bright screen, world-class fit and finish, pretty good battery life and tons of functionality. Your photos will look great, Gmail is easy, and I have already downloaded a lot of map coverage (which cannot be "synced" onto the Touch as far as I can tell - you have to connect the Touch to the internet thru your wireless). I connected it to my laptop and all of my old iPod Nano music synced onto the Touch in a matter of minutes. Music, photos, e-mail, notes for (eg) a journal plus stocks and weather - the software update Touch has a lot to offer. OK - I do have one complaint and one suggestion - I wish they would have made the backside matte-finished instead of polished - it is really a finger-print magnet. And, I would prefer it to be just a little bigger to make some things (like maps) easier to read. Kudos to J&R Music and Computer too - I ordered this from Amazon but J&R sold and shipped it - it was in Iraq eight days after I placed the order!!
Edited on 03/03/2008 to add: The Touch continues to impress me. You can't really "save" maps on it - but if you place a bookmark at a location then that area and map scale is preserved to use when you are not on-line. G-mail continues to work like a charm. The Touch has easily replaced my old PDA and offers much more functionality.
Like the ipod touch February 26, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Even though I didn't buy the ipod with the software upgrade I did indeed purchase it from itunes...but anyways this review is about the ipod touch itself. I actually like this ipod very much I have had since they came out in mid September late October I believe it was. I haven't had any problems what so ever with this ipod. I actually am able to see youtube videos through this and also go online. I use this at school where I get free wi-fi and its great. Speed is great, quality is great I just wish it wasn't too pricey but it's worth it. Overall I like that it won't scratch the screen but the back interface does scratch quite easily but that is easily fixed by buying a case and keeping it in there. Overall I would recommend this product to anyone who wants an ipod but wants to have the same interface as the iphone. cause unlike the iphone this ipod doesn't cost too much to use it..and its all its worth in my opinion.
It feels like magic! February 25, 2008
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Before my iPod touch, I had a Palm Tungsten E, which worked well enough. But after using my iPod touch, the Tungsten feels like the stone ages!
The touch's interface is snappy and snazzy, and it can do a lot as long as you have access to a wireless hotspot. Google maps can pinpoint your location to within a 100 yards, and can route you to your destination, and even has traffic information!
All your contact and calendar information is identical to what's on your Mac (along with photos), and you can also read and write email. And of course you can surf the web too.
How amazing is all this in a tiny package with a reasonable price?
Not everything is perfect though. It'd be nice to have a To-Do list, be able to rate songs, search through contacts, have all applications handle both landscape and portrait display modes (it's a little annoying to be forced into one display mode or another), and yes, hardware volume controls would have been convenient. But overall, I'm really impressed (tickled really) buy how "magical" the experience of using the touch is. 5 stars.
 It's a step in the right direction... February 24, 2008
6 out of 46 found this review helpful
...but call me when they make a 60GB+ version. Better yet make it at least 80--I'm pushing 60 with just music.
 Slick with neat applications, but not as useful as Nokia N800 February 24, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been wanting to really use the itouch ever since it first appeared as the iphone. I'm now doing that. I'd already tried it out and saw it used by others, so I had a pretty good sense of what to expect, but daily use is different than a few minutes of play. I know at least one person who sold their Nokia N800 (the closest device in terms of size and functionality that I've seen so far). Their use of the machines is clearly different than mine, as I won't even consider doing that.
The itouch is slicker to use. Its a much better digital music player than the N800 (or its predecessor, the 770) and several of its applications are simply neat beyond comparison. I love the way Youtube works on the itouch. The Google maps and Yahoo weather applications are incredible, and the browser is a work of art when you zoom in on and navigate pages with gestures like pinch and swipe.
That said, I won't even think of taking anything but trivial notes on the itouch. The larger screen and stylus of tne Nokia N800 and 770 make them much better writing machines. I've written papers on the Nokia. Writing anything on the itouch is a painful process of missed keystrokes and corrections.
I don't mind the differences. Both fit quite nicely in my top pocket (with the much smaller itouch nestling nicely in the screen depression of the N800). There will be times when I just want a really little device along. When that happens the itouch will more than do the job so long as I don't plan to write anything. There are obviously other differences (I could shoot a short video on the Nokia, upload it to Youtube, and view it from the itouch), but on the whole there is room in my pocket for both devices.
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