Archive for December, 2007

iPod Touch from Apple - explore

So I could start synchronizing iTunes with my iPod, everything went smooth and at an acceptable speed. While exploring I ran into some positive things but found a few downsides as well.

Positive vibrations:

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overall intuativity of the navigation - wicked multi-touch-screen, menu’s, options, flow, photo zoom

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battery
- battery runs out faster with wifi on, quite a big difference but battery life is good

extra applications (agenda & contacts - which you can sync with outlook, youtube - big!, photos - resizing is killer)

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wifi + surfing
with safari (wow didn’t expect it to be this good, setting up the wifi is piece of cake, but lost a star on not including (or a possibility to install) the flash player plugin - boooo! - 3 stars (should of been 4!)

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iPod Touch from Apple - set up

Damn, yesterday I had this strange urge to buy something, don’t know why. Something told me it was time to buy myself a nice gift. I’ve been planning to buy an ipod a long time ago, but never got to it. I’m always questioning myself if I really need something like that. Turns out I don’t need one. But it’s just tons of fun having one.

So I went to the Fnac-store (which btw was ridiculously crowded) in Gent and bought the 299€ iPod touch 8Gb version (there’s also a 16Gb version available, for 100€ extra). I found out later when you order it from the Apple store you get a free inscription on the back of your ipod, but too late in my case. This is the one:

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