<p>I’ve been trying to come up with ideas for a Christmas present for my H. He’s been lusting after a friends iPhone but he doesn’t want to have to deal with an ATT contract.<br>
I thought a iTouch might be just the thing since it seems to have most of the cool gadgets that the iPhone has w/o the phone but i’ve read mixed reviews.
I’m hoping someone here has first hand experience and can give me their thoughts.</p>
<p>One of the kids at my school has one and loves it…I only know one person with one, but he’s given it rave reviews.</p>
<p>It seems like the iTouch is the iPhone minus the phone–which sounds exactly like what your husband wants. I don’t have one, but I’m sort of lusting after it myself. I want to go to an Apple store and play with one a little and see how it works. I know a couple people who love their iPhones and all the associated features. I only know one person with an iTouch, and we haven’t talked too much about it, but I know he was really excited about it when he got it.</p>
<p>Can I intrude and ask a stupid Ipod question? If I bought my mom an IPod Nano, and put some songs on it from our ITunes library, would she then be able to upload those songs to an ITunes library on her computer? She lives 1000 miles away and will be visiting us for Christmas. I’d like to show her how to use ITunes from our computer, then have her go home and set up her own ITunes library.</p>
<p>No, she wouldn’t, not without more technical knowhow than she probably has. Because of copyright regulations, syncing your iPod to a new computer will erase all songs from the previous computer. There are programs that will let you do this, but it’s considerably more complicated than you probably want to deal with.</p>
<p>You can transfer any songs you purchased from the iTunes store from an iPod to a new computer relatively easily.</p>
<p>See [Copying</a> iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer](<a href=“http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305465]Copying”>http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305465)</p>
<p>I have read a lot of good reviews on the IPOD Touch. I plan to get one myself. I want the larger capacity one so I can watch videos, too. I love my little Nano, but am ready to step it up.</p>
<p>I have a nano which I like- except it is too small.
I have a video which I like cause it is bigger but the ( cheap) case I have is ugly. ( I have another case but it is pretty but not practical)
however-it is big ( storage)
my next want is their reintroduction of the newton-
I like the new ipods though, and actually like them better than the iphone, cause I like my phone and don’t like Cingular</p>
<p>You also can share playlists/songs on up to 5 computers</p>
<p>well, I’m glad people seem to have only good things to say about the iTouch.
I think my H will be quite pleased at Christmas. Now I just have to figure out whether to get him the 8gb or 16gb :-)</p>
<p>Helpful Hint: Buy at apple.com and get the free engraving/free shipping. Same price as Best Buy and others. (Well…okay Walmart beat their price by 3 cents.)</p>
<p>Yes … I got one for my son for his birthday. He’s a real techno geek, and he LOVES it. One great feature is that he can acess the internet through it if he’s in an area with free wi-fi. It works great for him because his whole campus has wi-fi access. It also works great for me because it allows him to get his e-mails from me wherever he is, and I find that he responds much quicker now.</p>
<p>And the 8 GB should be sufficient.</p>
<p>The iPod Touch is pretty awesome. I played with one at the Apple Store. It’s a thinner, lighter iPhone without the phone. Seriously nice.</p>
<p>I was also in the situation where I wanted an iPhone but I already had a phone so I didn’t necessary want the phone part with it. It has all of the same features of an iPhone minus the phone (and the camera). I have an iPod touch and I love it!!! The last iPod I had was an iPod mini and so this was a great improvement. Initially the touching can be hard to do, but after about twenty or so minutes of playing with it you get used it. The colors are so great, and it is so convenient to literally flip through your songs and albums. And watching videos on it is just great. It is super bright and the video looks very sharp against the black background. Overall, I think it is definitely worth the money.</p>
<p>You could always jailbreak (i.e. hack) the iPhone so you could use it on your current network assuming you are currently using GSM. You’ll void the warranty, but there’s a pretty big enthusiast scene. The internet capability of the iPhone is the attractive feature to me and GSM is available in many more places than Wifi…</p>
<p>Tip: Don’t get the free monogramming. When the inevitable 2nd gen comes out in 6 months, you won’t be able to trade it in.</p>
<p>Do you guys know what, if anything, the iTouch has besides Safari and ability to play music, videos, and look at photos? Like, does it have any games or a calendar/to do list feature or anything? I’m thinking about who else this gift may fit.</p>
<p>[Apple</a> - iPod touch](<a href=“http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/]Apple”>iPod touch - Official Apple Support)</p>
<p>I’ve looked briefly at the website, and I’ve only seen discussion about Safari and the normal iPod features. I thought I remembered seeing a “Calendar” icon on an iTouch, and I can sort of make one out in the picture on the site, so I was wondering whether anyone had more information personally about whether/how well it can be used to keep track of appointments and such. The games thing I was just idly curious about. I don’t want to watch the whole “guided tour” of the iTouch, so I wanted to see whether anyone had any personal experience that they could quickly share.</p>
<p>i just realized the yesterday that my work has a corporate employee discount with apple. One of my friends just bought an iMac the other day week and I got to see the iPod touch at the store. I personally can’t stand iPod’s, but even I have to admit it was pretty cool.</p>
<p>After I saw the discounts I realized the iMac would have been 100.00 less if I had bought it.</p>
<p>Corranged, I’ve been doing some research on the differences between the iTouch and the iPhone. Both have calendars, but only the iphone lets you add notes etc., the itouch calendar seems to be just a static calendar.
Also, the iphone has an email button which the itouch doesn’t have, but since it does have Safari, I assume you can check/write email thru that.
I’ve only been researching this since yesterday though, so I might not have grasped all the fine points yet.
My impression is that Apple didn’t want to make the itouch so appealing that they would lose iphone sales so they kept some functions solely on the iphone.</p>