[nabs-l] iPod Touch

Fri Dec 17 23:21:30 UTC 2010

Not Ignasi, but iOS is simply the platform on which all i products run.

Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Clark
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 5:29 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] iPod Touch

Hello Ignasi,
I found your email very helpful and informative.  I have 
decided to wait a 
little while to purchase an IPhone until Verizon brings their IPhone to 
market in January if that comes to pass.  I was not sure what 
you meant in 
your message about iOS.  You said that email and web browsing 
on iOS are by 
far the very best.  What is iOS?  By iOS are you referencing either the 
IPhone or the IPad Touch?  Sorry for the basic terminology 
question, but I 
am new to this type of technology.  Thanks for your assistance.
Warmest regards,
Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ignasi Cambra" <ignasicambra at gmail.com>
To: <jsorozco at gmail.com>; "National Association of Blind 
Students mailing 
list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] iPod Touch

> 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
>>
>> "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their 
>> sleeves,
>> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
>>
>>
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