[nabs-l] iPod Touch

Fri Dec 17 23:54:27 UTC 2010

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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