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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Dec 2007 07:49 UTC

PureMobile sent us in a 16GB iPod Touch for the purposes of this article. This is one of the few times an - essentially - mp3 player comes with a powerful operating system (other examples include the Linux-based Archos and Sandisk offers). Read on for more.

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Comment by Thom_Holwerda

by Thom_Holwerda on Mon 10th Dec 2007 16:45 UTC

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2005-06-29

Touchscreen sucks balls. Whether they call it "multitouch" or not. I can't operate this thing blindly, and hence, it is of no use to me.

A music player that you need to look at to operate is useless. For me, that is.

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RE: Comment by Thom_Holwerda

by cheezlbub on Mon 10th Dec 2007 17:00 in reply to "Comment by Thom_Holwerda"

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2006-07-17

agreed - horrible ipod.

fantastic PDA for apple people though (once you jailbreak it)

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RE: Comment by Thom_Holwerda

by Phil on Mon 10th Dec 2007 20:04 in reply to "Comment by Thom_Holwerda"

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2005-07-06

Not totally sure why I'm posting a me-too comment, but I feel like doing it.

I have a very old fashioned iRiver H120 (or rather iHP when I bought it) that has loads of buttons on it. There aren't that many occasions that I choose function over form, but iPod touch just seems rididulously impractical.

With all my buttons/joysticks I can change track, volume etc without taking the thing out of my pocket. I always have the pause button physically available if I want to quickly stop something (invaluable when using for learning.)

Plus with RockBox I can play asteroids on it with the joystick - and what could be better than that?

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