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- mercurysquad, on 10/16/2007, -2/+71Seems like once the 30+ GB iPod Touch models come out, it's gonna destroy the PDA market. Palm better do a crackerjack job with their overhaul plan.
- super_spyder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+66the pda market is all but dead, the smartphone market ate it.
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -5/+51They will come, but I don't imagine there'd be much use for them... 90% of the use comes from being able to check your email or check the weather on the fly, no matter where you are. What percentage of your time are you in a wi-fi area? When you are, there probably a computer nearby too. I can only see this being truly useful at a hotspot somewhere with no laptop.
That aside, I'd probably still do it... just because I can. - Raider007, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36I live in the bay area...
soooooooooo....most of the time i'm in a wifi area... - YoctoYotta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30Verizon (and Sprint) uses CDMA and AT&T (and T-Mobile) uses GSM, two incompatible hardware/network technologies, so no, you can't unlock the iPhone for Verizon.
- Kwal756, on 10/10/2007, -31/+61Dugg for calling it the JesusPhone
- Rikkochet, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Not to fear, they're hard at work on the Foleo 2.0.
*cough* - Raider007, on 10/10/2007, -7/+35guess I should start reading about the hacked stuff...
come on JesusPod - Feanor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27McDonald's even has Wi-Fi access. The truth is, people go into a building expecting to have Wireless access. I don't carry my laptop everywhere I go, and if I had a device as small as the iPod Touch that i could check my email, browse the web, check the game score, etc. I wouldn't hesitate to use it. I would say that 99% of my day is spent within a Wi-Fi area. (of course, my College campus is 100% covered in Wi-Fi)
- litkaj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28Yeah, but I have to wonder if they didn't kill some of the sales of the touch by dropping the price of the iPhone at the same time. I don't particularly want an iPhone but given that I can now get the 8GB version for the same price as a 16GB Touch, I'm really torn on what to do.
- cmearns, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Last time I checked "Notes" didn't need a Wi-Fi.
- johnhummel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Actually, he's got a point - if the device is more open to develop for so that you can put an eReader, etc - then yeah, I think it'll crush Palm *hard*.
- Eivo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19Damn that is a dumb question.
- kinkysexradio, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20It also has no contract, no monthly fees and no monopoly to support.
- angusm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16This is going to change some things. Once large numbers of people start carrying portable WiFi devices, they'll expect WiFi to be available everywhere (in urban areas). Once people start expecting WiFi to be available everywhere, it will be. The one problem is that some of the open WiFi networks will turn out to be run by phishers. Expect a new 'golden age of phishing' before people learn the hard way that just because a WiFi network is open doesn't mean it's a good idea to connect to it.
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18The point of a lot of the other so-called "apps" like Google Maps is that you are always connected to the internet with the iPhone, so you can always just click Google Maps and use it. It's useful is severely discounted when you have to have access to WiFi in order to use it (unless you live in one of those magical, all WiFi cities).
The iPod Touch isn't an iPhone Lite. It's a widescreen iPod with a web browser and WiFi. It has no phone, no camera, no mic, no speakers, and no external volume control and *probably* no Bluetooth, or easy access to BT capabilities. The only app that might be worth porting is Mail, as I suppose that it could be useful to check your mail whenever you are in a WiFi area. Still, it's usefull is discounted. - seventoes, on 10/17/2007, -0/+11Maybe because it has 53 diggs.
- starquake, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12uhm... usefulness...
- contrite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11How are you going to use Skype without a microphone? You'd do better to install your favorite chat program.
- RonAcierno, on 02/07/2008, -1/+11Why dont they just make it so when you are connected to WiFi the Mail, Stocks, Google Maps, and any other icons that use the web just apear ... and when you arent connected they arent there
- kinkysexradio, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12I live in Chicago.... sooooooo... me too!
Most of us live in dense urban areas. Wi-fi is like air to us. lol - johnpaul191, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9when a mail app runs i will be pleased. add iChat and i'll be really psyched. i live in Philadelphia and we have tons of WiFi..... let alone the ongoing build-out of the city wide WiFi (earthlink is not scrapping the one here). this is very appealing to me because i won't buy a GSM phone. i realize i can use webmail, but the mail app would be a nice bonus.
yeah, WiFi won't help me out on the highway somewhere, or out in the sticks.... but i spend 99% of my time in the city near WiFi hotspots. it's a lot smaller than my old 12" ibook beater that i now pretty much just use for checking email and web browsing.
i would gladly go for a thicker iPod touch if it gave me 60+ GBs of storage. having the 5G iPod made me used to keeping my whole MP3 collection on the iPod, along with video podcasts, photos, TV shows etc. - IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I don't have wifi everywhere I go, but I am in college and it would be nice to quickly check your grades/email/study guide/whatever on your ipod rather than pulling out the laptop in the middle of class.
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12Only if there's an SDK.
- Ebacherville, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10This is going to make apple the bigest player in the PDA Phone and Music player device if they play there cards right.. add in a few PDA apps and VOIP client like gizmo or Skype and make a developer kit and you'll have the killer device.
Apple! Please add these apps to these device and youll sell trillions of them, I'd buy 2 iphones now if these half these additons were avalable now. You want the busines market, add a client for citrix and outlook.. you'll take the Biz markey by storm.. this is why pocet PC's are used in business outlook and citrix.. - catbertz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The Touch and the iphone are essentially the same hardware, so there is little wasted/lost R&D.
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Hard to imagine that the new iPod could seriously dent the PDA market (and perhaps the Blackberry & smartphone market as well).
In any case, look for my 5G 30GB iPod on eBay soon! - RodeoRobot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7A good eBook reader would be great on the Touch
- KennMac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I hope that was sarcasm. Obviously the hardware wouldn't be in the headphone jack for that.
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12*its usefullness
- spazzcat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Wrong...go use one...the keyboard is great on the iPhone.
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6No, that's a dead link
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Well, if you're like me AT&T doesn't have service in your area. That may present a few issues.
- mandarin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5At least you dont need to be paying the monthly fees that come with the iPhone....
- hourog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5And that state would be?? Shangra La by chance?
- mkameli, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Send $400 to the Red Cross?
- WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Seems like Apple is trying to stage a comeback... The iPod Touch is not a phone, it's not really a simple music or media player; just what is it, if not a PDA with a lot of (non-upgradeable) storage and no SDK (for the moment)? Smells an awful lot like a PDA to me...
- hourog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What would really be beneficial, from a business/PDA standpoint, would be if the iTouch could interact with Google documents through the browser. Then we could carry our tunes AND check inventory levels when necessary. Then again, since Google docs are web based, it might work as is. I hope.
- altered, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Nah, it won't. The same way the iPhone won't really touch the enterprise market. People who still buy PDAs have specific needs that the Touch hasn't reproduced.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4a) I can buy music from some other stores and use it on the iPod
Therefore not a monopoly. kthxbai - SvMidtown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That's why I was looking to get it. It's a lot nicer than having to pull out my laptop.
The reason its "was" is because from what I've heard the iPhone doesn't support WPA Enterprise networks so the campus wide wireless at Pitt would be worthless for my iPod. - mercurysquad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Flash-based memory does not have to be in power-of-two units, and certainly not in a geometric progression. My phone has 80MB on-board memory, 2MB for internal storage and 78 MB user storage.
- faxxy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Tricorder
- Rileyper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm sorry, but i'm digging this story down for "uh DUHHHH!!!"
- corporalclegg24, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dude, great idea!
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's not on there yet :P
- KennMac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yeah, because a complete data package, lots of minutes + rollover, and texting all for $66 a month after tax is so terrible.
- crawf061, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3that's right ... dongle
- ZachPruckowski, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No need to. Someone just needs to extract them from the iPhone and copy them onto the iPod Touch.
- KennMac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Find a way to make a GSM phone function on a CDMA network, and you got yourself a winner.
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