:bigthumbup:I am getting a new IPod touch soon. I've never had one before (or an IPhone either). All I have now is my IPod Shuffle and a regular flip phone. I hear you can listen to SiriusXM on the IPod touch now as well as any music you put on there from an ITunes library, and that interests me a lot. I also wondered if I can listen to other music providers from the internet on there such as Pandora, Slacker, Radio 365, and AOL Radio, and do I have enough room for all of this on the IPod Touch, or do I have to pick and choose? Can I take one music app off and put another one on at my leisure? Also, is the weather and internet access free on the IPod touch, or do you have to pay a monthly fee? And finally, what are some other cool features on the IPod Touch that I should know about? Oh, and can I listen to baseball from XM on there?
A Lot of questions concerning the IPod touch
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Pandora, Yahoo, Slacker, AOL... Don't know about Radio 365 but they have a whole music section in the app store. You can move the apps around, download it or deleate with a few flicks of a finger. If you buy an app, deleate it, then reinstall it again then you don't have to repay for it. MLB Home Plate is on the Sirius XM app, but not the play-by-play. To get that you'd have to get a seperate app called "MLB.com At Bat 2009" which lets listen to every game, watch 1-2 games, but it costs 10$
You can get the iTouch in 8, 16 & 32GB. I have 45 apps at any given time on there and it takes up about a 1.5 GB. I have the 16GB and with 2.5 hours of video and 1.3 days worth of songs, I'm almost maxed out at this point.:shock:
The iTouch's only internet access is Wi-fi, so as long as you don't have to pay for the wi-fi unlimited internet access is free. For weather I like to use the Weather Channel app, which is free.
Basically this device can do most anything, so if you want pictures, it does pictures. You want music, it's got music. Video, it's got video. Podcasts, it's got audio and video podcasts.
Hope I was a help:bigthumbup:
Unless it's a jailbroken app, which is probably not good, any app that works with the iPhone should work for the iTouch.
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Prior to getting an iPhone, I used the iPod Touch with my Razr2. It meant lugging two devices, but they complimented each other well. I basically used my iPod Touch for checking email, a bit of web surfing, taking notes in meetings, keeping up with appointments and contacts. You can use free Gmail and even enable push for calendar and contacts, plus imap for email. It is a great setup.
In terms of applications, there are tons of them, from productivity to playing games. Music there is no shortage of apps all those you mentioned plus many others. Apps can be removed and readded, but my suggestion is don't cut yourself short by getting an 8gb, get the 16 or even better 32gb. This way you don't have to worry about space, you can load all your apps without removing them, you can have tons of your own music. Though in all fairness if you don't have a lot of your own music you could probably make due with the 16gb. You can do photos and videos etc. There is no camera and no built in microphone so no all applications are supported by the iPod Touch that require those.
There are many native sports apps popping up, now so you don't need Sirius XM for those.
The iPod Touch is a great device! I use my 1gen for over 2 years before eventually getting the iPhone.
Just another tid bit it is rumored that Apple will be releasing a new iPod Touch in September, not sure when you were looking to pick one of these up. But these new ones may include a camera, microphone etc. No one really knows and if the one that it out now meets your needs then there is really no point in waiting.
There are a few apps here and there that won't work on the iPod Touch. You will usually get a warning when trying to download that it is not compatible. Most of them will be related to phone-specific functions that don't exist on the touch. I think, though, that so far I've only run across 2 or 3 since I got mine.