iPod Touch 16 = 4×4 Pros and Cons
A week with an iPod Touch… time flies by! a few Pros & Cons so far:
Pros
1) It’s nice, flat (8mm) and light (120g): no bulk here, it’s even more convenient than regular iPods. I haven’t had the chance to test its solidity, but I’m not going to do that voluntarily, even for the sake of scientific progress -sorry.
2) The OS is really intuitive, everything rolls out smoothly and without time-loss. Operating it is nearly a game in itself. 
3) The Wi-fi capability is really great, and was one of the main reasons I chose it over a regular iPod. Also, attachments can be opened -which is impossible to do on blackberrys for instance, as far as I know. It is a bit slow, but hey, I didn’t expect anything much faster.
4) Earphones (regular Apple earphones) are pretty comfortable. I often have trouble adjusting to earphones, but not this time, so hurray! However if I wanted to run (which I don’t), I guess I wouldn’t be so happy.
Cons
1) I must say I hate the way it organizes songs with iTunes. I have lots of music with no (or little, or miswritten) ID3 tags, and I litteraly spent a day re-organizing everything, putting right tags and creating lists. Would it have been that hard to be able to keep original folders? (This is a first-approach impression, as I had never installed or extensively used iTunes before. Still, this first impression is a really bad one)
2) The video system is outrageous. It turns out you have to buy an additional software (Quicktime Pro) in order to convert your videos so you can read them on your iPod -and I’m talking legal, .mov movies shot with my point & shoot camera!
3) No plug-ins (flash, shockwave, etc) are accepted while surfing the web -but I imagine it was technically difficult to implement. Still, it is a disappointment.
4) 8 or 16Gb is not a lot. It’s great, but I can’t have ALL my music on it -however I knew that when I bought it, so there.
But nevermind all that, I must say I’m still having lots of fun with my new toy.
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I’m jealous
16GB does not seem like a lot when you compare it to the 160GB classic, but in my experience I enjoy music more when I plant just a few albums on mine. My Sony Ericsson phone, which is my only mobile device I have for watching video, also uses a very restrictive file-format, which is annoying. For video, the world is definitely not flat!
Does it matter to you that the interface is not very tactile, i.e. you can’t adjust the controls in your pockets? That’s one of the few things preventing me to upgrade, though my ‘pod also has a few years left in it.
No, the fact that the interface is not very tactile does not bother me very much, but I suppose it would if I had a different use of the iPod: I don’t use it in the metro, or walking in the street, but at the airport, in taxis, hotel rooms (I travel a lot for work), or a little at work, so I really don’t mind having it out in the open.
I would like to add some ;
cons:
- no “delete all” for mails in the trashbin, so you basically have to delete each mail twice…
- can’t look at mails in landscape mode
- my ipod Touch looses time/date when low on battery
((
- no calendar sync with my professional Lotus Notes calendar
but basically I like it as my primary use is Podcasts listening.
Emmanuel,
My Blackberry Curve can open MS Office attachments.
That was just FYI. Why didn’t you buy a 32 GB iPod Touch instead ?
I found a great tool for converting video for the ipods. It works on the iphone so should work just the same with the touch. Its called Videora and is free.
Thanks Mark, I found it too eventually: indeed it works great for ipod touch too.