[nabs-l] iPod Touch

[Ignasi Cambra]

Hello,
I would recommend that you go to an Apple store or Best Buy store and try the iPhone or iPod touch out. Other stores also have them, but I know Apple and Best buy have them out there for people to play around with them.
Theoretically you should be able to use a CDMA iPhone on a CDMA network that's not Verizon, but we don't really know how possible that will be. It's already hard enough to keep a GSM iPhone unlocked and with a reasonably recent version of iOS installed, and the chips on Verizon iPhones will be completely new so we'll have to wait and see. In any case I wouldn't expect to be able to transfer a Verizon iPhone to Sprint within the next three or four months.
An option which you might want to consider given that you are a Sprint customer is to buy one of Sprint's iPod touch packages. I think they basically sell you an iPod touch which comes into a case which is actually a 3G wifi hotspot, which allows your iPod to use Sprint's 3G network.
Normally apps don't take a lot of space. GPS applications which store maps in the device do take about 1GB of space, but if not they are generally somewhere between 1MB and 100MB. Other than that, how much memory you need depends on how much music you want to have in there, or how many movies, podcasts etc. You can use bluetooth GPS receivers with an iPod touch.
I would like to make a point that in my opinion, email and web browsing on iOS are by far the very best, most accessible solution available on mobile devices. Reading emails is really just great. Exchange accounts work great on iOS. Email, contacts and calendars sink perfectly. Also, many newspapers have applications that you can download in order to read them. These are normally accessible and for me there is no faster way to access a newspaper. I can just wake up and read the news on my phone. It's fast, and it just works. And in the end, I guess that's what we want.
Also, I find the iPhone to be very useful when I travel. Most airlines have iOS applications, which will tell you if your gate changes or if anything happens. This way I don't need to keep asking random people if I'm still at the right gate, or it changed.
You can attach bluetooth keyboards of all sizes to an iPod touch. This is very practical if you need to use the thing to type large amounts of texts. These days you can actually use the iPod touch with the same exact keyboard commands that you would use on a Mac.
Apple's i devices just really work for me. I think there's no better way than buying one and trying it out. If you don't like it, return it.
Good luck!

Ignasi
On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Joe Orozco wrote:

> Okay, I confess to feeling intrigued by this Apple mania.  I'm not willing
> to change phone carriers to experience mobile devices, so unless I buy an
> unlocked phone after Verizon picks it up, I'm thinking of picking up an iPod
> Touch.  A few questions for you loyal Apple fanatics:
> 
> 1. Is my assumption correct that if Verizon picks up the iPhone as it is
> expected, I could buy an unlocked iPhone and use it on Sprint given they're
> both on a CDMA network?
> 
> 2. I know bigger is always better, but on average, how many gigs are you
> using to handle your main apps?  Can you expand memory through micro SD for
> music and such?
> 
> 3. How well has the iPod Touch worked as a business device?  Can e-mail be
> easily synched for exchange accounts?  Is there a sufficient number of
> business-oriented apps that work on the iPod?  Are most apps built for the
> iPhone available for use in the iPod where possible?
> 
> 4. Is there a dummy guide for people like me who'd need a crash course on
> touch typing, gestures and such?
> 
> 5. Has anyone heard anything suggesting future GPS inclusion in the iPod?
> 
> and finally,
> 
> 6. How well does the FaceTime app work?  Or, how well has the Google Voice
> app worked to communicate with people using 3G or wi-fi networks?
> 
> Thanks in advance for entertaining my million questions!
> 
> Joe
> 
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