I-Touched - A Personal Review of the iPod Touch

I have been using my ipod touch for almost a month already. Honestly, i must say that I'm impressed with it. Even though others might say the ipod touch is simply a stripped down version of the iPhone, and that people are better off getting an iPhone instead. I still feel that some are in need for the innovative features and the stunning interface, but do not need the phone itself. Furthermore, not all countries have cellphone carriers that support it. And that's exactly the case for me.

With that said, i am utterly disappointed that Apple did not pass on some of the iPhone's key features down onto its brother model. I'll get to that later.

Straight out of the box, the ipod touch is undoubtedly chic and elegant with its classy packaging. With smooth curves, a shiny back casing, and an astoundingly huge screen, the touch is simply a joy to look at. For a player that packs so many features, it seems almost unbelievably thin at less than 8mm.


The multi touch glass display is flawless and is a perfect compliment to browsing my music in cover flow. Sound quality is above average but soft hissing sound can be heard with a good pair of headphones. Video quality is also quite good when displayed on the device's wide-screen. There has been complaints on the touch's screen being low quality, due to dead pixels and inverted blacks. However, I did not find any of those on mine. The Safari web browser on the touch presents users with the most PC-like surfing experience on a mobile device. Pinching effectively zooms in on a page, letting me view texts comfortably.

Nevertheless, the touch failed to include hardware volume controls and external speakers that were present in its progenitor. Additionally, the touch has no "enable disk use" feature, preventing users from storing other data on to its flash memory. This issue may be overlooked when one considers the measly 16GB that it maximizes at.

Still, if you give a closer look at its slick interface, Wi-Fi capabilities, gorgeous display and near-perfect web browser, the iPod touch could be the music player everybody has been waiting for.

Please feel free to drop by your comments.
T'ang