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:shocked: Never in my life did I ever think that I would be holding in my hand this really slim designed 3X5 (approximately) device that does everything! (not the phone as I don't use AT&T) I have downloaded my music and photos and now all I need to do is find out what my password is for my WiFi. Indeed I need to figure out how to do the whole procedure to get on the internet.

Do any of you have the IPod Phone or the IPod Touch?

I would be interested in hearing your comments and any instructions or hints you can give me.

Wow! I am really impressed. Now I can give up my palm pilot and get a real simple cell phone. Palm pilot as a phone is just too big and cumbersome.

Geez I can remember using a Wang computer and working in dos and being amazed by the Wang word processing program.

Times have certainly changed!
 
The only thing I don't like about the Touch is it's somewhat small memory-the maximum is what, 8 gig? I already have more than that on my iPod, and since I like to run it on "random", and buy CDs pretty regularly, an 8 gig would be used up real quick. But I like the web connectivity-how's it work, how much does it cost?

I just got a new cell phone-I've not had one in years-and it's a smartphone as I'm probably going to add email connectivity in the near future (I just opted for unlimited voice and text to start with). But it's got all sort of stuff like datebooks, music and video, and so on, and it's not so big as a Palm or full sized Blackberry.

-William
 
You can add memory. I only have 8 but for a $100 more you can get 16. I don't know yet how expensive the web connectivity will be but when I do, I'll let you know. Also there are some 'free' web connects if they are in range.
 
I have the touch and love it. Got the 16 gig one but wished I held out for the 32 gig. If you don't have it already get the software update for it that adds email, maps, moveable icons and a few other features.

Mine will hold my complete music library 10.5 gigs and 3 full length movies which was 6.5 hours of video. The tunes movie rental works great btw.

The only thing I don't like about it is battery life. When your using the wireless or watching movies it really kills the battery quick. They do sell external battery packs for it that will charge it if its off or extend the life of the pack if its in use for less than 20 bucks and that helped out a great deal yesterday and was able to go from Burbank to Minneapolis with a 3.5 hour lay over using the internet and watching a movie on the second leg.
 
LOVE mine! Replaced a 2nd gen 20GB iPod with the 16GB Touch. Love the ability to scan the album covers when choosing songs. Video is great too - watching movies and YouTube clips is easy and the screen is crisp. Also - and of course I would NEVER do this myself! - you can "rip" DVDs to iTunes and then to your iPod for watching later. Apparently (so I have heard) you need some shareware encryption decoding software on your computer and a ripping program - both pretty easily available.

Very nifty gizmo. And I don't find the memory size or battery life restrictive (although the 2nd gen's I was upgrading from were notorious for poor battery life).

Rob.
 
:thankyousign: Gentlemen. That's good advice on the software. I wondered about that. Also as to the battery life - a small price to pay. I'm going to look into both.

Again I am really excited about this new fangled gadget. I doubt, however, I'll be ripping anything but my trousers as a result of weight gain. Shame on me.

Again, thanks for the great advice and sharing your enthusiasm.
 
William said:
The only thing I don't like about the Touch is it's somewhat small memory-the maximum is what, 8 gig? -William
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jeez. I remember saving for months to buy an extra 2MB for my home pc. At a whopping $400. And at a time when 64 or 128kB was the norm.
 
:banana: Me too. First computer was a Wang with 32 mgb and an IBM motherboard. Dot matrix printer that was so slow I could have printed faster. Not to mention having to work without benefit of menus, just good old fashioned DOS.

Of course I also remember the first generation of computers which used key punched cards. Courtesy of Thom McAn corporate offices in Massachusetts. All of this in the 'clean room' managed by the Electronic Data Processing department or EDP if you were really knowledgeable.

Okay so you figured out I'm on Social Security!!!

Just curious. Question for the day.

Who was the first programmer?
 
Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter.
 
You're good guys. It's a bit of trivia that I learned in my first computer class and never did forget it. Also the origin of the term 'chit' referring to the sides of those reams of paper off of the dot matrix printer and the term, there's a bug in the program.

Interesting what bits of knowledge stay with us.

Something like a commercial of sometime ago that instructed the viewer to think of a particular product whenever they saw a shopping cart. I still remember that product.
 
It was another female programmer who discovered the first computer bug, but her name escapes me.
 
I don't know her name either but what I do know is that there really was a bug in the circuit board and it caused a major problem in the program - thus the term bug.

While I'm explaining the term 'chit' comes from a postal facility I believe in Los Angeles. It seems that the postmaster was given daily reports and he hated having to tear all the strips off the side and requested that the excess paper be taken off before it got to his desk. One day in frustration when given the morning reports he burst into the data processing office and screamed, "How many times do I have to tell you to take the chit off the paper?" It seems he had an Hispanic accent so you can guess what he really was saying.

(I hope that's okay to put on the forum. It is a true story.)
 
wkilleffer said:
It was another female programmer who discovered the first computer bug, but her name escapes me.
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Commander Grace Hopper, USN - and it was a moth.
 
:winner1: Too smart. Such a wealth of information.
 
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