So my girlfriend won an iPod Touch in work a while back. Naturally I was more excited than she was at the news, and when I proceeded to explain why the iPod Touch was so cool, she didn’t really get it.
The iPod came in the post just last week, and we (I’ve) been playing with it since. She gets it now. My father picked it up and found his way around with very little help, Even my 60yr old Uncle found it to be incredibly intuitive. I’m totally impressed. I love that it’s slimmer than the iPhone too. The UI is so smooth and quick it’s an absolute pleasure to use. For those of you who have only had the Apple experience through the likes of iPod, using an iMac gives you the same satisfaction every time, go and buy one of those too!
Anyway, I find myself wondering which product do I really want. A jailbroken iPod Touch with the iPhone apps installed is only missing the phone and camera. I could live with that, I have a phone with a camera that I’m quite satisfied with (Nokia 6234). I’m not sure how well the iPhone works handsfree in the car either, can you get loudspeaker over an iTrip?
I think to be honest I would go for an iPhone if it was readily available here in Ireland right now. As it’s not I have two options; pay €999 for a sim free one from France; or get one in from the US and unlock it, voiding my warranty and causing me to hesitate at any software update.
Feck it, I want an iPhone, I want it now. But it seems like I can’t have it. So for now I might have to settle for the iPod Touch. Decisions suck.
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November 11th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Personally I’d rather have the ipod touch, too many problems associated with the iphone…check out my site at http://ipodtouch.blogs.ie for news reviews and info on ipod touch ireland
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 am
“too many problems associated with the iphone”
What are you smoking man? What problems are you talking about?
I’m in Canada so I thought the closest I could get to the iPhone was the iPod touch and so I got the 16gb model. It ended up being a Week 37 with the bad screen so I sent it back.
While playing with it though, I couldn’t help feeling a little “empty” from using it and decided that I wanted an iPhone instead.
I have a friend living close to Detroit who picked one up and mailed it out to me (I’m in Edmonton Alberta). 15 minutes after I received it I had it jailbroken, unlocked and working with Rogers!
WOW! Best decision! it actually cost me less to get the iPhone and ship it, than the 16gb iPod touch.
Buy the iPhone!!