New Apple iPod touch 64GB Latest Version
Posted by Notcot on Mar 29, 2010 in Portable Sound & Vision |
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Having previously commented on one of the rather unhelpful ‘reviews’ (I thought a review was supposed to inform potential buyers?) about the 64GB touch already, I am, since last week the owner of one. I already own a 60GB Ipod Photo from about 5 years ago, which has given great service and has now been assigned to use in the car (the new Touch is just too precious!)
Though very comparable to the Iphone, I use my mobile phone very little and felt that the Touch would fulfil my needs better and not tie me into an expensive contract.
Being used to just music and photo capability the new Touch is a revelation given the multitude of features available. Apple are unsurpassed as far as user friendliness is concerned (no I do not work for them) and this allowed me to simply unpack, charge and sync with iTunes.
The Safari web browser is great to use. It could never be quite as easy as a PC given the 3.5″ screen, but I have been pleasantly surprised with just how versatile it is. I have found myself switching on the PC far less as a result. The email works really well too. Video playback is excellent and there are already several movies now stored on my Ipod.
It is also extremely easy to download Apps, and also easy to forget that you can do it straight onto the Touch itself!
Battery life is respectable and realistic given the size of the screen and power of this device. My previous Apple mains charger works fine with this anyway, so regular charging is no big deal.
All in all, if you can afford the price tag, you will not go wrong buying this brilliant little gadget. I paid more that this for my last Ipod five years ago and have been patiently waiting for a 64GB model to be released. I love it, and doubt that I will need to upgrade again for quite some time.
Rating: 5 / 5
I got my 64gig ipod touch 3g last week so it has not been long since i’ve owned one. It was a big step due to the price as this is my first ipod, before this I had been using 400 minidisks and some very out-dated sony minidisk players using the terrible SonicStage software. You can imagine how amazed I have been with the features of the ipod touch in this context. Shelves and shelves of cds and minidisks are now in a tiny ipod…amazing!
The space is the thing I am most pleased with, my entire music collection of 7,000 songs is on it, as well as a good few movies and tv shows and some apps…most notably some old point-and-click adventures that I used to play as a kid…still 20-odd gig left to go. itunes has been a very good programme for me, far far better than the ones I have used previously…I run it on my home pc (win xp).
The ease of use is fantastic, the menus took no time at all to get used to and i’m now pretty good at getting round it…really intuituve The wifi has been very useful when out and about in town, its so easy to find information quickly.
I would recommend this to anyone looking for a portable media player with a decent ammount of space, I was originally considering a 32gig but am so pleased I went with this…the extra space has proved very useful.
Adam
Rating: 5 / 5
I’d owned a Nano for 4 years and had outgrown it so I treated myself to a 64Gb Touch last November (2009). The look and feel is everything Apple – sleek, well presented and beautifully if simply packaged. Charging is quick and connection to iTunes 8 a …. failure. No mention of the need for version 9 but hey ho this worked and my collection of some 2200 tracks copied pretty quickly. No instructions on how to use the interface but it was all pretty natural and straight forward as you’d expect from this company. The new ear phones fitted well and the addition of a sound control on the right lead was most welcome. The earphones produce a bass-oriented sound which, on occasions, can overwhelm the singer so not so good if you want to learn the lyrics and sing along! A set of Sennheiser mid-range ear-buds produce a lighter sound and better balance. The best listening results came from a pair of good Sony earphones rendering the best balance without resorting to the in-built equalizer.
Linking to my WiFi hub was dead easy and late evening on the first day of ownership was spent catching up on a couple of programmes on BBC’s iPlayer. The screen on the Touch is an absolute joy – clear and crisp and no motion blur. I suspect that bandwidth on my broadband was a problem as the iPlayer hung up about 5 minutes from the end of one of the broadcasts. I got no sense that the Touch was buffering and there was no way from the system screen of tuning this. Sometimes the Touch would recover when tried with other programmes but if it doesn’t restart pretty quickly then you have to watch the programme all through again and hope that it doesn’t run out of buffer space as there appears to be no quick advance slider to step you quickly through the programme.
I’ve loaded up all my contacts from Outlook and the e-mail works a treat retrieving e-mail from my personal and business accounts. I did try Mobile Me for part of the free time provided but it offered nothing more for me than my current ISP services.
I’ve used it to retrieve maps and plot a route and used public WiFi hot spots to update – all work well. The gesture driven zoom is awesome and totally natural to use – just love it.
I’ve ripped a couple of my favorite DVDs to watch on plane journeys. These play back easily and crisply with good sound through the Apple ear phones.
The down side is a real shocker but only if you’re into playing with sound quality. I’ve experienced severe sound distortion on a good number of tracks. This was until I remembered that, in trying to get a better balance out of the Apple-supplied ear phones, I’d used the in-built equalizer. Turning this off sorted the problem but it is a real disappointment as it was a feature that worked well on the Nano. My collection is 160Kbit MP3 (plenty of space to use and thus can afford better dynamic range of 160 over 128Kb/s). Re-ripping one of my CDs to Apple’s AAC reduced the problem significantly but the distortion was still there. This has cost the product a whole star I’m afraid.
Battery life is pretty good enabling a complete run of Blade Runner with a reasonable bit left for music. You’ll be lucky to get two full movies out of the battery unless they’re both under about 90 minutes or so each.
I’ve downloaded a couple of the free apps just to see how they go and get used to the process; Tube maps and a sample driving game. Tube maps are brilliant and the driving game is really good – great driving the game using the in-built motion sensor. Downloading, installing and arranging the apps on the Touch using the iTunes app is really easy.
All-in-all I’m very pleased with the Touch; no regrets at all as long as I don’t use the equalizer. I’m just hoping the the distortion introduced by turning on the equalizer can be fixed in software and, if so, is part of an early software upgrade.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’m an Apple fan, since buying a MacBook I could never go back to a non-Mac machine for personal use – but bizarrely I’d never before had an iPod. I preferred the Creative range of media players and although they were perhaps a bit bigger and a bit more clunky – they supported more file formats and sounded great. But I now have to admit that there is no contest, the iPod touch is in a class of its own and isn’t something which gets dragged out now-and-then, it gets used every day, it’s so beautifully crafted that it deserves to be….
As a media player the iPod touch performs brilliantly. The audio quality is great and it’s easy to flick through albums, and if you want to watch a video – then the 3.5inch screen (which might sound small but that’s not an issue given that it’s never too far from your face) looks superb. In fact, it was the quality of the screen which sold me on the product after attempting to watch video on my Windows Smartphone (it struggled after an hour and would start to get a bit jerky!).
It still amazes me how responsive the touchscreen is. Every swipe, every nuance, every little movement is picked up – it really is a seamless interaction. It makes navigating around the various applications so incredibly easy, my three year old daughter picked it up and within a few minutes new how to go to a fireworks app (she loves creating firework displays on the iPod!) and get back to the main screen to then go to the piano app – that demonstrates how intuitive the device is, I can quite literally say that even a child can use it!
Speaking of apps, there are thousands of apps for the iPod touch and the number is constantly increasing. Some are designed to make life a bit easier (online banking apps, google maps for plotting a route, etc), some are great for social networking (the Facebook app means you never need to quickly log onto your computer to check what’s going on), and some are just for fun (the fab display means that games look great – your Nintendo DS might feel a bit jealous). Many apps are free, many have free versions which you can have as long as you don’t mind seeing an advert for the producer, but most can be purchased quite cheaply. My wife loves cooking as has a recipe book on there which cost about 60p and she absolutely loves it.
I’ve mentioned how clear the display is, and when combined with the Safari web browser you get a web experience which does not suffer from the relatively small screen. The WiFi manager is easy to configure, it took literally seconds to jump my home WiFi, and whenever I turn WiFi on it connects almost instantly. I find myself using my laptop less often as I can do most of my web browsing on the iPod now.
My only gripe with the iPod is that you are limited as to how you get your files on there. My trusty old Creative Zen was able to receive files simply by dragging and dropping them into folders on the device, I wish I could do the same with the iPod so that I could easily pull a file from it if required. But I understand why that isn’t possible, Apple need to gain the confidence of the entertainment industry by using Digital Right Management licenses. As it happens, iTunes is pretty easy to use and functions well, so keeping your iPod synched up with your i-Tunes account is as easy as connecting the two and waiting for the sync to complete.
In a nutshell: About ten years ago I used to sell PCs and the most desirable product in the range was a pocket PC. It was slow and cumbersome, it looked pretty ugly, and it had a touchscreen which wasn’t responsive – but still, the idea of having a mini-computer in my pocket excited me (I’m quite a geek) and now the iPod touch is here. You shouldn’t think of this as just a media player, playing music and video are just a couple of weapons in the iPod arsenal, the device is capable of so much more. Consider this to be a pocket-Mac. That is what makes it such an amazing piece of technology which warrants the level of attention it receives.
Rating: 5 / 5
Bought this to augment my original Touch (along with a 32gb for the girlfriend) and I am very impressed. The wi-fi is quicker, the sound is slightly better, the voice control is a really useful feature (enabling you to leave it in your pocket out of sight) and the headphones are, as usual, really poor. Having a microphone in the headphone lead means you can now use Skype for free phone calls (in a wi-fi area) without being told you cannot use it over 3G like on my iPhone. The Skype app is free from the iTunes store. I can finally sell my first Touch and replace my 80gb Classic with this beauty. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5