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Apple iPod touch 4G Review

Posted by on Nov 18, 2010 | 13 Comments

Just a couple months ago Steve Jobs took the stage to revel the newest iPod line up. With some major updates to the iPod nano the iPod touch was totally revamped. Now coming with not one but two cameras and totally new guts in this very slim device.

I have been fortunate enough to get my hands on the 32GB version of this amazing new device. Since the release of the iPhone you were unable to compare the iPod touch to the iPhone because of the lack of camera and the internal guts of the device were so different from any iPhone.

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The new iPod touch features the same A4 chip which powers the iPhone 4, 24-bit color LED retina display, 3-axis gyro, front camera for FaceTime and rear facing camera for HD video recording.

Before purchasing this new 4th generation model I did my research and all I could find on the Web is positive after positive comment praising it as being a true little brother to the iPhone 4. Although it is similar to the iPhone 4 a critical feature is missing that makes the iPhone 4 a little better when taking pictures and that is an LED on the back for illuminating your subject perfectly and after having used it for two weeks I’ve been frustrated when I want to take pictures in low light with my pictures looking grainy.

Overall though I found the iPod touch a very nice upgrade from the old 3rd generation model with some major leaps taken by Apple to improve this very popular device. I’ve enjoyed the front facing camera and retina the most, being able to take HD video for my YouTube channel and when watching content on my iPod it is bounds better than what the old devices had.

  • Nephi SHields

    I want!

  • http://robertglenfogarty.com/ Robert Glen Fogarty

    Hah! Indeed, Will. It does turn out to be a shocker.

  • Alex

    Two thousand years ago the Roman Senate gave the people their sects (religions) and their games (the smokescreens) to occupy them while the Senate did what they wanted to do — in secret. Times haven’t changed.

  • http://twitter.com/sobercool Eric T.

    Hahaha! Too good to be free! The price may look expensive at a first glance, but then you consider all the points you’ve highlighted and other disabilities that time will reveal to us about iTunes the price may be worthy for something you will pay just once instead of a regular-fee service.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=749406208 Ryk McDorman

    Songkick has been phenomenally useful to me. I get emails announcing upcoming concerts from my favorite artists, usually well in advance of it being announced anywhere else — even on the artists’ own web pages. This is a lifesaver for anyone who sees lots of concerts.

  • Julian Perry

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  • http://www.hanselman.com shanselman

    But if the machines are on the same LAN then just enable LAN sync and the other computers don’t matter.

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      It’s not the local synching that’s a problem so much as it is receiving massive amounts of data from the other people who help with videos (via Dropbox). ;)

    • http://www.jakeludington.com Jake Ludington

      Chris’s comment is partly correct and I also have the issue (mentioned above in the post) that I’m not always on the same LAN.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IMQ5TGJG44JUC6JIWAOHM5LBXA TomB

    Doesn’t the bandwidth limit refer to copyrighted video? Also, if you provided your credentials to Comcast, isn’t it more than likely they would give you a pass?

  • http://twitter.com/wolfnix Joshua Altemoos

    Comcast’s limitation are insane, I remember when it first came out that there CIO or whatever said noone would ever hit it… Well what was it 20% of all internet bandwidth was netflixs? I am sorry streaming media, SD or HD takes up a ton of BW, as does PC updates, and any other downloads. If I am paying $60-100 a month for a service, it better be unlimited. If someone gets a DCMA(sp) notice, then deal with that, don’t retroactively target everyone. Comcast will start telling people to get business accounts I am sure.

  • draconas rayne

    You do know that anything on DB in your home network will do a LAN sync right? you upload the videos to the cloud, cloud says “hey I received this, i better say that it’s ready to be downloaded” your other computers download a file lists then starts downloading, when detected that another computer is in your area with your account, it’ll download from that computer after getting the file list.

  • http://www.jakeludington.com Jake Ludington

    A NAS works in some cases but not others because I work from two primary locations. I also travel frequently enough that I don’t have the luxury of getting things pushed back to a NAS from a hotel or other remote location. It’s far easier to simply use Dropbox or even an online backup solution like IDrive.