I got my iPod Touch for Christmas of 2009 and have had it for about 2-3 days, depending on how you count, and I must say I love it. As some of you know I name many things in my life my cars, Pamela/Bertha, and Kate, TV’s Christmas trees, Bertha/La’Dynasty (Lady Nasty), and now my iPod Touch (Gogo Youbari). I don’t know why I name them but I do and it makes me feel special. Ok now on to the real reason for this blog…an iPod Touch review and app Suggestion Blog. FYI this review is not super in-depth but hey it can help you to solidify your choice.
Overall the iPod touch is great and I love it the touch screen is really smooth and slides easy. The screen is very responsive and there is no need to calibrate it works perfectly……you know what I’m really lazy and I don’t feel like writing all of this so I’ll just grab one off the web and post it here…I will cite it but I just don’t feel like doing this written review. By the way if you don’t care about this review then skip to the bottom for the app part where I’ll actually write stuff.
ALL PARTS OF THIS iPod REVIEW COME FORM CNET.COM
http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/apple-ipod-touch-third/4505-6490_7-33770783.html
For better or worse, the first thing we noticed about the third-generation iPod Touch is how unchanged it looks. Side by side with the second-generation iPod Touch, you'd be hard-pressed to find a way to distinguish the two models from each other. Aside from minor differences in the etching on the back of the Touch, the second- and third-generation models are spitting images of each other
Just like its phone-wielding sibling, the iPhone, the iPod Touch is a touch-screen device with a glass-covered 3.5-inch screen that sports a 480x320-pixel resolution. In spite of its touch-screen interface, Apple includes a few physical buttons, including a slim volume control on the left edge, a hold switch on the top, and a home button on the face of the player, placed below the screen. The bottom edge of the Touch includes the same universal dock port and 3.5-millimeter headphone jack as previous models, piercing the otherwise unbroken expanse of chromed steel that wraps around the back and edges of the device.
The shape and dimensions of the Touch also remain unchanged (4.3 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide 0.33 inch thick), defined by a flat-glass front set inside a curved steel backing that feels natural in the hand but makes the iPod a little wobbly when you set it down on a table. Packaged with the Touch is an Apple universal dock connector USB cable, a pair of white earbuds that include a microphone and remote control on the cable, and a molded universal dock insert to use with any charging or speaker accessories.
I have some problems with this...it is correct but it talks about the 3rd generation being the same size as the 2nd generation as a negative when it’s a positive…for example when you go and buy a case, you can buy a 2nd gen and use it on your 3rd gen iPod. Another positive talked about as if it were a negative is the dock…be glad it’s the same size now you can you it on old stuff instead of having to buy all new accessories because “this new iPod doesn’t work with my old shit.” Aside from that this part is really good
Out of the box, the third-generation iPod Touch includes an amazing music player, podcast support, video playback (including iTunes rentals and a YouTube player), a Safari Web browser, photo viewer, an e-mail reader (compatible with Outlook, Exchange, MobileMe, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, or any POP e-mail service), an integrated iTunes Store for music and video downloads, and a host of smaller utilities (weather, calendar, maps, stocks, notes, voice memos, clock, contacts, and calculator). Provided become proficient with its touch-screen keyboard, the iPod Touch is more pocket PC than an MP3 player.
An iTunes App Store, accessible from the computer or directly from the iPod Touch, lets you download and install thousands of applications, including Internet radio players, games, voice recorders, and social-networking tools. You can also extend the capabilities of the iPod Touch using third-party "Made for iPod" hardware accessories such as AV docks, external battery packs, and speaker systems.
Are you confused about what features are available on the 8GB Touch compared with the 32GB and 64GB versions? So were we. For the record, iPhone OS 3.1 features such as Bluetooth audio, Genius Mixes, and voice memo recording are available on all versions of the third-generation iPod Touch. Voice Control and accessibility settings, however, are the only features we've found so far that can only be found on the 32GB and 64GB Touch models (or iPhone 3GS).
There’s this thing called Genius on Apple I don’t know what it does nor do I care so I will omit any Genius talk in this blog…it’s not really a selling point anyway.
The iPod Touch now includes the capability to control playback using voice commands. To activate this feature, you'll need to press and hold the headphone remote control button until the Voice Control screen appears. Using the microphone built into the included pair of earbuds, you can call out a song, artist name, album, or playlist, and the iPod will interpret your commands and play the request. Playback features such as shuffle, skip, play, and pause can also be controlled using voice commands, but it feels a little unnecessary, since the earbud remote control is available to perform these functions without making you look like a crazy person.
I don’t use the voice commands much because in all the time I can do that I can just press it on the iPod…so I don’t use it… it’s nice to have but again I don’t use it.
Apple is pushing the speed barrier where users feel it most: gaming. With a promised 50 percent increase in processor power and a new OpenGL graphic processing system, the load time and responsiveness of games on the third-generation Touch have been quickened dramatically. A game of Spore that took 14 seconds to load on our second-generation Touch, launched in just 8 seconds on the third-generation model. If games are your distraction of choice on the iPod Touch, the improved speed and graphics capabilities of the 32GB or 64GB third-generation models are certainly the way to go.
Unfortunately, as much as Apple seems inspired to push the limits of processor speed and video game graphics rendering, the attention it pays to audio quality and sound enhancement is at a standstill. The arsenal of sound enhancement settings packed into MP3 players from Sony, Cowon, and Samsung, lay in stark contrast to the unchanged and marginally useful list of EQ presets included on the iPod. That said, the balanced and smooth audio quality of the iPod Touch is likely to satisfy the majority of listeners, despite the limited scope of its audio control. Like all iPods, the third-generation iPod Touch supports playback for MP3, AAC (including protected files), Audible, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless. There's still no support for WMA music files, but you can always convert your WMA tracks to MP3 within Apple's iTunes software.
If you are looking for a way to take video on the go, the iPod Touch may just be your new best friend. You can load the iPod Touch with video podcasts, TV shows, and iTunes movie rentals, or watch endless amounts of free video clips using the included YouTube widget or other third-party video applications. The viewing angles weren't quite as generous on the third-generation Touch as our second-generation model, but it's not worth us raising a stink over. Whatever diminishment you may notice in viewing angles is made up for in what we perceived as a noticeable improvement to color balance and contrast. During testing, the 32GB third-generation Touch presented a cooler, more natural color balance than the second-generation Touch, and it seemed less prone to washing out at higher brightness settings.
One more thing there’s no camera on here.
Pictures of Gogo. (these are not to scale they may look a little longer/shorter in these pictures
all above pictures taken by ryangno@gmail.com
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APPS APPS APPS!!!!
So I my main reason for getting this iPod was the apps…which after about 2-3 days I have 72. Here I will make a list of my top 12… why 12?... because I feel like it. These are I NO order.
1. Tap Tap 3 (FREE)
- I didn’t originally want to get this but I caved in and to tell you the truth I’m glad. If you’ve played other Tap Taps then you already know how this game works. For those of you who don’t know Tap Tap is a game where you press balls as they come toward you while the move to the music…wow this is really hard to explain essentially its Rock Band/ Guitar Hero for your iPod. You set up and avatar and you play songs to unlock other songs and play more…the songs are fairly contemporary like Owl City’s Fireflies, and Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance (her song does set you back about 99 cents.
2. Hottest Free App
(FREE)- this has to be one of my favorite apps. This is an app that shows other apps that people get apple only shows the top 100 apps in the app store and some of the best apps go unnoticed and this helps to take care of that. It has a list of different apps and ratings on them then this app takes you to the app store to get the app of you want it. It shows both free and paid apps. (Wi-Fi required)
3. Facebook
(FREE)- do I really need to explain…you can get on facebook from here…you can chat from this app. (Wi-Fi Required)
4. PS Mobile- Photoshop.com mobile
(FREE)- this app lets you edit photos on your iPod you don’t do heavy editing like selections and layers but you get basic things like blur and color change…no brushes. I use it mainly to crop and rotate.
5. I Retouch Lite (FREE) no pic could'nt get one in time
- what I call the extension to Photoshop…it’s like the brushes for Photoshop and I use it to highlight stuff.
6. Music God
(FREE)- just a fun app that shows how you listen to music for example I have listened to 66% of all songs in my Library, and another one…my library costs $600.93.
7. Battery Master
(FREE)- this apps just lets you know how much batter you have life by percent and the time you have left to listen to music, surf internet, and watch videos.
8. FML
(FREE)- this app it just like the website (Wi-Fi Required).
9. MILA Lite
(FREE)- same explanation as FML. (Wi-Fi Required).
10. Mr. Aah…Lite
(FREE)- this is a game where you are this little gut that swings from a string and you have to land him on a pad safely. Really fun.
11. 20 Q Mindreader
(FREE)- this is like the normal 20 Questions game where you choose and object and you get asked 20 question to determine what it is. Really fun and not as boring as you’d think.
12. Bump
(FREEthis is an app that lets you trade with other iPod/ iPhone users, you both have to have bump for this to work…here’s how it works…you both turn on Bump then bump iPods (while in you hands of course) you can exchange pictures and contact cards where you can then email things. (Wi-Fi Required).
Well that’s all the apps I’ll tell you about if you really want to know all the apps I have you can email me at ryangno@gmail.com , if I left out your favorite app post it as a comment to this blog.
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