Ipod 64Gb Touch Cheap Price!
Author: mocowiz
iPod 64GB touch - Good But Not As Good As I'd Hoped
I'd owned a Nano for 4 years and had outgrown it so I treated myself to a iPod 64GB touch last November (2009). The look and feel is everything Apple - sleek, well presented and beautifully if simply packaged. Charging is quick and connection to iTunes 8 a .... failure.
No mention of the need for version 9 but hey ho this worked and my collection of some 2200 tracks copied pretty quickly. No instructions on how to use the interface but it was all pretty natural and straight forward as you'd expect from this company. The new ear phones fitted well and the addition of a sound control on the right lead was most welcome.
The earphones produce a bass-oriented sound which, on occasions, can overwhelm the singer so not so good if you want to learn the lyrics and sing along! A set of Sennheiser mid-range ear-buds produce a lighter sound and better balance. The best listening results came from a pair of good Sony earphones rendering the best balance without resorting to the in-built equalizer.
Linking to my WiFi hub was dead easy and late evening on the first day of ownership was spent catching up on a couple of programmes on BBC's iPlayer. The screen on the Touch is an absolute joy - clear and crisp and no motion blur.
I suspect that bandwidth on my broadband was a problem as the iPlayer hung up about 5 minutes from the end of one of the broadcasts. I got no sense that the Touch was buffering and there was no way from the system screen of tuning this. Sometimes the Touch would recover when tried with other programmes but if it doesn't restart pretty quickly then you have to watch the programme all through again and hope that it doesn't run out of buffer space as there appears to be no quick advance slider to step you quickly through the programme.
I've loaded up all my contacts from Outlook and the e-mail works a treat retrieving e-mail from my personal and business accounts. I did try Mobile Me for part of the free time provided but it offered nothing more for me than my current ISP services.
I've used it to retrieve maps and plot a route and used public WiFi hot spots to update - all work well. The gesture driven zoom is awesome and totally natural to use - just love it.
I've ripped a couple of my favorite DVDs to watch on plane journeys. These play back easily and crisply with good sound through the Apple ear phones.
The down side is a real shocker but only if you're into playing with sound quality. I've experienced severe sound distortion on a good number of tracks.
This was until I remembered that, in trying to get a better balance out of the Apple-supplied ear phones, I'd used the in-built equalizer. Turning this off sorted the problem but it is a real disappointment as it was a feature that worked well on the Nano. My collection is 160Kbit MP3 (plenty of space to use and thus can afford better dynamic range of 160 over 128Kb/s). Re-ripping one of my CDs to Apple's AAC reduced the problem significantly but the distortion was still there. This has cost the product a whole star I'm afraid.
Battery life is pretty good enabling a complete run of Blade Runner with a reasonable bit left for music. You'll be lucky to get two full movies out of the battery unless they're both under about 90 minutes or so each.
I've downloaded a couple of the free apps just to see how they go and get used to the process; Tube maps and a sample driving game. Tube maps are brilliant and the driving game is really good - great driving the game using the in-built motion sensor. Downloading, installing and arranging the apps on the Touch using the iTunes app is really easy.
All-in-all I'm very pleased with the Touch; no regrets at all as long as I don't use the equalizer. I'm just hoping the the distortion introduced by turning on the equalizer can be fixed in software and, if so, is part of an early software upgrade.
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