[nabs-l] iPod Touch

Dennis Clark dennisgclark at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 18 00:09:40 UTC 2010


Hi Joe,
I appreciate the lead and I will check it out.
Best,
Dennis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] iPod Touch


> I'm still researching.  If you go to Amazon.com and enter iPod Touch, 
> click
> on the 32 GB 4th generation product.  You'll find a really excellent 
> review
> that speaks not only of the iPod but of the iOS capacity in general. 
> Unless
> something's changed, it's the first customer review.  Something over 2,000
> customers found it helpful, and I certainly count myself among them.  The
> guy gives this specific product 5 out of 5.  If you can't find it, I'll 
> look
> it up and send the link.
>
> 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-----
> From: Dennis Clark [mailto:dennisgclark at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 6:31 PM
> To: jsorozco at gmail.com; National Association of Blind Students
> mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] iPod Touch
>
> Hi Joe,
> I thought that's what Inasi meant but I wanted to make certain.
> I think I
> remember that you compared some apple products a number of
> months ago and
> posted your thoughts to the list.  Did you ultimately decide to
> buy one of
> the Apple products?  If so, has it worked out well for you?  I
> look forward
> to hearing from you.
> Best,
> Dennis
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 3:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] iPod Touch
>
>
>> 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-----
>> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [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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