The Apple IPod touch 16 GB is currently the best flash-based media player around, with a stunning, even revolutionary new gesture-based user interface that works. I would have liked a significantly larger main storage, but it’s very good as it is now. As a media player it’s main drawback derives from the purely touch-based interface: it could have profited from a better rotary controller for ‘blind’ control. The feature that separates the Touch from the rest is the addition of another great feature: WiFi web browsing. WiFi based music purchase is a nice bonus. This Touch also has the software upgrade.
The Apple IPod touch 16 GB also comes with a number of sometimes artificial limitations that I hope will be resolved in the future. All in all I’m very, very satisfied with the Touch, even though the Touch experience can clearly be improved (e.g. by removing application restrictions, being able to pull in shared ITunes Libraries, sharing songs wireless, syncing wireless etc.).
ADVANTAGE
- great “video” IPod
- WiFi web browsing with Safari
- wide range of supported file formats (audio, video, images)
- great display
- phenomenally sharp images
- drop-dead gesture/touch interface
- both NTSC and PAL
- iTunes store wireless
- TV PAL and NTSC out
DISADVANTAGE
- no playlist groups
- difficult to use ‘blind’
- no contrast control for movies
- no disk mode
- non-standard AV connector
- artificial limitations on Calendar application
- no Mail, Notes, Games applications
- can’t access iTunes shared libraries on WLAN
- can’t share songs with other Touch iPods
- no wireless synching
- 16GB can be small when ripping movies for Touch’s resolution
- no WiFi ITunes PodCasts
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