iPod Video vs. iPod Touch

February 10, 2009 · Filed Under Opinions · Comments 

I’ve been asked a few times over the last week; “what ipod should I buy? The ipod video or the iPod Touch”?

It’s actually a very good question, and my answer is….it depends on your needs. The iPod video is a really good ipod it has a huge hard drive and holds a ton of media. If all you want to do is listen to music and that’s it then the ipod video might be a good choice. 

The ipod touch on the other hand is so much more than an ipod, in fact right now I have no music on my ipod touch and I carry it everywhere. The touch is a multi-media device which allows you to not only listen to music but it also allows you to:

  • Watch movies and tv shows in wide screen
  • Listen to streaming Internet radio
  • Surf the Internet
  • Use your email
  • Check your calendar
  • Carry your pictures around with you
  • Play games
  • IM friends
  • Update your Facebook page
  • Post to Twitter
  • Update your linkedin page
  • Buy a book on Amazon.com
  • Keep track of your ebay auctions
  • Read a newspaper
  • Read a book
  • Connect to your desktop
  • Watch YouTube
  • Watch Welcome Back Kotter on Joost
  • Download a podcast
  • Copy a file from your computer
  • And so much more.
The iPod Touch is by far the best iPod ever made and is so over shadowed by the iPhone.

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$99 iPhone at Wal-Mart was just a rumor

December 17, 2008 · Filed Under News · Comments 

It’s been all over the Internet, the so called $99 4GB iPhone on sale at Wal-Mart, but now we can see it was nothing more that a rumor. The image shows a printed memo that went out to some of the Wal-Mart stores that will indeed be selling iPhones.

Personally I think this is going to be a nightmare, I mean I can’t get a straight answer from the Wal-Mart electronics department on a memory card. Could you imagine an iPhone. For instance I was in Wal-Mart just the other day and noticed a women asking questions about the iPod. The Wal-Mart guy, let’s call them blue vests; he bashed the iPod and tried to talk her into a Zune, which she never even heard of. Lucky for her I was close by and was able to jump in and tell her the iPod was the way to go; while he headed off to grab a Zune.

Some things are just not meant to be sold in Wal-Mart.

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The iPod Touch has changed my life!

November 13, 2008 · Filed Under Hardware · Comments 

An electronic gadget changing life and it has nothing to do with medical equipment might sound weird and believe me I have been thinking of writing this for the longest time but felt stupid that people might even think I’m crazy. But it’s true, the iPod Touch has changed my life!

First a little of my iPod history. I purchased the iPod gen 1 the week it came out, I still remember where I was when I opened the box. It was this square box that opened in the middle and then there it was almost the thickness of a pack off cigarettes with the scroll wheel and the little monocrome display. This was killer, 5gb I thought I would never fill it up. I remember walking into the gym and people looking over my shoulder the reactions where “hey what’s that” or “is that that pod thingy”. It was great. Still works but I keep it aside for people to look at. After Gen 1 I went to a Gen 3 and then a gen 5 video ipod at 60GB that to me was the best one ever. How could Apple ever top the iPod Video?

Then the rumors of the iPhone started and along with the release of the iPhone was the iPod Touch. Handcuffed by Sprint I decided to buy the iPod Touch to hold me over until I make the iPhone purchase. The night I purchased the iPod touch I felt guilty all the way home from Best Buy. I felt like my iPod Video was perfect and the iPod Touch could not offer me any additional satisfaction. Then I opened the box.

WOW! this thing is thin, thinnest iPod I ever saw, and it was just awesome. Turning it on for the first time took my breath away. I connected it to my G5 and synced my iTunes library including season 1 - 3 of The Office. OMG! The video is stellar. This is to good to be true.

So how did it change my life? LOL well actually maybe changing my life is overkill but it has made the way I do things a lot different. My iPod no longer sits in the car, it comes with me everywhere.

For Business, it’s my PDA. With the MobileMe service It syncs my calendar to my desktop and my MobileMe online account. I can take notes with it, send emails, access the Internet. The endless amount of downloadable and webbased applications allow me to do just about anything like tracking the mileage for my car, finding the cheapest gas in town, checking the weather, viewing my address list, finding an address with MapQuest, checking stocks or reading the latest post on my favorite blog like ireviewapps4biz.com.

Funny this thing is an iPod but I rarley use it listen to my MP3 collection, because I can stream music using Pandora or Last FM, listen to news in Denver or Miami on AOL Radio, update my NetFlix list, play a game of bowling or racing, post to my blog, check the NFL scores,  find out how many shopping days until Christmas, find homes for sale in my town, shoot a round of golf, access my Facebook or MySpace page, send an IM to a buddy, get the movie times, locate a good restaurant, send a Twit to Twitter, buy a book on Amazon, find my way in the dark, figure out how much to leave for a tip, watch my auctions on ebay, catch a movie or my favorite TV show, Listen to a Podcast or Audiobook, and at the end of the day sit on the couch and control my itunes music or switch on the Apple TV. And then the next morning read the local newspaper. The iPod Touch does it all and does it good. You buy and iPod and you get the world in the palm of your hand.

5 thumbs up is well deserved.

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