Hey everyone! I just ordered an 8gb iPod Touch (I preferred the 64gb but I have financial restrictions) and I'd like to know what I can do with it that I may not have expected to use the iPod Touch for.
I'm pretty excited about this, actually. I've been getting by on my 1gb Shuffle (I know!) and playing with my friends iPod but that hasn't been enough!
I've been using my BB 8310 as a media player as well, but I hate having my music interrupted when I receive a call.
Well, MacTxGirl. First and foremost, what product did you order? I am not aware of a product called and iTouch? Is this an Apple Product or a knockoff of the iPod Touch? Anyway. You can use your iPod Touch for many things. The only things you can do on the go however are media (music, movies, podcast, tv shows etc) and games. Everything else requires a wifi signal. But. If you have a wifi signal, you can do anything that an iPhone can besides the phone stuff (calls, text etc). It really depends on the apps. Go find some and start having fun.
I recommend Slacker myself for music, because you can use just a little space and actually cache your stations, so that you can listen to them even when you don't have Wifi. Can't do that with Pandora or the other streaming music apps.
It also depends on what types of things you are into. There are tons of apps that cater to the many different interests of its users.
It is a matter of personal preference I suppose. You can't customize Pandora stations other than to thump down a song or up a song, but that just tweaks their algorithm, which you still have no control over. You can tell it not to play a song for a month, but no real banning. You can't favor specific songs or artist, You can't tell it you prefer hits over more fringe, or classics over currents, you can't create stations with just artist and or specific songs that you want vs Pandora pushing their own play-list on you. You can't cache stations for playback where you have no Internet connectivity, not to mention that Slacker has a library about triple the size of Pandora's. Limits to the number of songs you can skip even if you pay for Pandora One.
