i have been looking at what apple have done in the past with the release of new products and it dos not look good.
What I mean is that when the ipod came out e.g gen 1 it had some shortcomings and the software had stuff missing, which in hindsight should have been there from the very start, even the Gen 2 and 3 devices had stuff missing, but by gen 4 its good.
Now I own and ipod touch, and I use it very heavily every day, I keep running out of storage on it, is a 32GB device, I keep finding that I run out of app space even when I have lots of storage space for the programmes, I have seen and used a gen 1 touch and its not very good and is underpowered and stuff that would drive me nuts.
So with all that it stands to reason that Apple will do it again with the ipad, so I am going to wait for the gen 2 ipad which I am told will be out at Xmas 2010, so not long to wait.
Showing posts with label ipod touch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipod touch. Show all posts
02 March, 2010
15 February, 2010
Headphones
Finally got my headphones that Donna brought for me as a Valentines present!
The finally bit is that even though the delivery was supposed to be 24 hours DHL decided that not delivering them on Friday was a good reason to delver them on Monday so they had them Friday am till Monday am, not happy about that rather poor service, I expected better, and there does not appear to be a way of telling them what I think about their service.
Anyway talking about the new headphones is what this blog is supposed to be all about, and they are made by Sennheiser they are an upgrade of my existing headphones, they are noise reducing and they are model PXC300.
I must say that for me they work very well, and do exactly what the manufacture said they would do which is good, even though we got them in a sale they still cost over hundred pounds, but so far I would say they are worth the money. The sound they produce for me is good and the sound reduction technology works very well.
My ipod touch seems to like them and that's all that really matters at the end of the day. I have read else where that they are't as good as expected and that they don't cut out all the external noise, but that's where I think people have misunderstood what a noise reduction headphone is designed to do.
But me I like them and they do what I expected them to do, if I want hifi sound then I would have gone for closed ear type of headphone, and these are not that, so by their very design they can never be better than a closed ear design, but you have to ask yourself do you want to go around the streets looking like Mickey Mouse with big ears?
The finally bit is that even though the delivery was supposed to be 24 hours DHL decided that not delivering them on Friday was a good reason to delver them on Monday so they had them Friday am till Monday am, not happy about that rather poor service, I expected better, and there does not appear to be a way of telling them what I think about their service.
Anyway talking about the new headphones is what this blog is supposed to be all about, and they are made by Sennheiser they are an upgrade of my existing headphones, they are noise reducing and they are model PXC300.
I must say that for me they work very well, and do exactly what the manufacture said they would do which is good, even though we got them in a sale they still cost over hundred pounds, but so far I would say they are worth the money. The sound they produce for me is good and the sound reduction technology works very well.
My ipod touch seems to like them and that's all that really matters at the end of the day. I have read else where that they are't as good as expected and that they don't cut out all the external noise, but that's where I think people have misunderstood what a noise reduction headphone is designed to do.
But me I like them and they do what I expected them to do, if I want hifi sound then I would have gone for closed ear type of headphone, and these are not that, so by their very design they can never be better than a closed ear design, but you have to ask yourself do you want to go around the streets looking like Mickey Mouse with big ears?
10 September, 2009
Ipod Touch
Well yesterday that is the 9th September Apple updated the OS in my I pod touch to 3.1.1 now that's not a big event in the grand scheme of things, but for me and my I pod it is.
You see my touch which by the way is named DMP is a big part of my life as I use DMP to play a lot of pod cast's for my music that I like, and also for some of the other pod cast like the IYA year of astronomy pod cast and also the Astronomy pod cast, both of which I have listed to since they started, I also happen to like the fact that I can play the odd game or also check the weather while on the move.
Now as I was saying DMP got updated from 3.0 to 3.11 that all went very well in that I did not loose anything and DMP is okay and works okay, the problem is that when linked to I tunes it decides( and I suspect for a very few reasons ) that it needs to back itself up.
Now DMp is a 32BG touch and has left at this time 9 Gigs free, so why has it been backing up since 5 pm and it is now 8.30 pm, surly it should not take all this time to backup?
Then just to add to all that fun itunes has also been upgraded from 8.21 to 9.0. Now it looks nicer, but apart from that I can't see many other differences, although I am told that there are many.
As for the touch from 3.0 to 3.11 the only change that I have seen is that in the music section there is now something called utunes, at this time I don't have a clue as to what that is all about.
One pet peeve that I have on the backup system is that there are no percentages or tine remaing to give you a clue as to just how long the whole backup process is going to take.
You see my touch which by the way is named DMP is a big part of my life as I use DMP to play a lot of pod cast's for my music that I like, and also for some of the other pod cast like the IYA year of astronomy pod cast and also the Astronomy pod cast, both of which I have listed to since they started, I also happen to like the fact that I can play the odd game or also check the weather while on the move.
Now as I was saying DMP got updated from 3.0 to 3.11 that all went very well in that I did not loose anything and DMP is okay and works okay, the problem is that when linked to I tunes it decides( and I suspect for a very few reasons ) that it needs to back itself up.
Now DMp is a 32BG touch and has left at this time 9 Gigs free, so why has it been backing up since 5 pm and it is now 8.30 pm, surly it should not take all this time to backup?
Then just to add to all that fun itunes has also been upgraded from 8.21 to 9.0. Now it looks nicer, but apart from that I can't see many other differences, although I am told that there are many.
As for the touch from 3.0 to 3.11 the only change that I have seen is that in the music section there is now something called utunes, at this time I don't have a clue as to what that is all about.
One pet peeve that I have on the backup system is that there are no percentages or tine remaing to give you a clue as to just how long the whole backup process is going to take.
04 March, 2009
Ipod Touch
Just an update to myself that the touch is working well, as I got it mainly for podcast's it works very well.
04 January, 2009
Cold
Now for some reason that I can not fathom it's been cold down here in the South of England for longer than I can remember for the last few years at this time of year why? don't know.
All I do know is at the rate it is going it will have been at 2 centigrade or less during the day for the last week or so, and at night we have had -8 centigrade! which for us is low in this part of England, as I write this the weather forecast is for it to stay cold until this Friday the 9 th of January.
As I have noticed of the last few years I do not fair very well in the cold any more, in fact it gets to be painful, why? not a clue, no one else in my close family have the problem just little old me, so it goes without saying that I do keep a very good watch on the weather at this time of year, and now with my ipod touch it has become all to easy to check the weather.
All I do know is at the rate it is going it will have been at 2 centigrade or less during the day for the last week or so, and at night we have had -8 centigrade! which for us is low in this part of England, as I write this the weather forecast is for it to stay cold until this Friday the 9 th of January.
As I have noticed of the last few years I do not fair very well in the cold any more, in fact it gets to be painful, why? not a clue, no one else in my close family have the problem just little old me, so it goes without saying that I do keep a very good watch on the weather at this time of year, and now with my ipod touch it has become all to easy to check the weather.
02 January, 2009
So What's Going on Then
I don't know what has come all over me, I mean this is getting out of hand, in that I have Blogged every day this year so far!
It will not last I am sure, real life and work will see to that and with all the changes at work I just know it will.
But as I have a 100% success rate in doing a Blog this year I thought I might just enjoy the moment.
I do want to say here that my and the ipod touch are getting along fine. the only thing that I have that I do not like is that when you are in the apps shop and ask for info on an app or download it the menu always takes you back up to the very top of the apps list, this can get to be very annoying when you have got yourself some 3 or more screens deep in the apps listing.
As with all new toys they overuse has worn off a bit and I find that I use it as an mp3 player more but now and then I can collect my mail and all that sort of stuff.
The unit I have is 32G and I have 11G free, yes I know that an awful lot of music but then I like music and also podcasts.
It will not last I am sure, real life and work will see to that and with all the changes at work I just know it will.
But as I have a 100% success rate in doing a Blog this year I thought I might just enjoy the moment.
I do want to say here that my and the ipod touch are getting along fine. the only thing that I have that I do not like is that when you are in the apps shop and ask for info on an app or download it the menu always takes you back up to the very top of the apps list, this can get to be very annoying when you have got yourself some 3 or more screens deep in the apps listing.
As with all new toys they overuse has worn off a bit and I find that I use it as an mp3 player more but now and then I can collect my mail and all that sort of stuff.
The unit I have is 32G and I have 11G free, yes I know that an awful lot of music but then I like music and also podcasts.
29 December, 2008
ipod touch
Well as I said earlier the touch is what I got for Xmas this year to replace a rather old creative mp3 player. So far I have found that it's all to easy to download free apps that you don't need, and the apps that you do want have yet to be written. I have also had the odd thought or two on how easy is it for Apple to redo the firmware in the machine as there as still a few parts of the software that come with the machine that just look like they have not been finished.
Other than that I have so far had lots of fun with the thing and have now only got 12G free...
Other than that I have so far had lots of fun with the thing and have now only got 12G free...
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