Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

I struggled for awhile between buying the iPod Touch and a N810. I bought the touch first and returned it. The web experience was awful in my book. The software was also glitchy. I got bored very quickly even after jailbreaking it. It was pretty disappointing. Incidentally, when I returned it, the guy asked me why. I told him basically the same thing. He said there was a restock fee. No problem, anything to not own the oversized paperweight. He never said another word to me after that.

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

Horizontal scrolling bugs me. I'd never be able to use the iPod Touch for extended periods of time like I do my N800.

I don't find anything wrong with the package manager, it's very Linux-y. The problem is the amount of repos.
Do a barrel roll.

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

Don't know if this is your page, or who is responsible for it, but it's not altogether fair. It implies that the iTouch's earphone jack is not stereo, for one thing.

Also, the layout is annoying, as the table is not in a table (OK, is jammed into only one tr), and so the lines don't line up.

But it's a good point. If you think the polished slickness the iTouch offers is worth all the price and feature differences, go for it. But I don't value slickness that highly, and I don't really understand anyone who does.

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

That's a result of poor formatting. Where it says "Yes, Stereo" actually applies to "Speakers". Both say "Yes" for "3.5mm Output".

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

Um, what? It looks just fine to me, do you want it to be boxed like a spreadsheet or something? It says "stereo" because the N800 has two physical builtin speakers, and it says "no" because the iPod doesn't have any speakers built into it, this seems both correct and fair, I fail to see the problem here. Do you want it to say, "No, but the iPod might have speakers in the future!"? =/

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

Yeah. I like that he says you can't do much that's useful with the N810. Considering you can't really do anything at all useful with the Touch.

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

The biggest difference between the two devices is simply in the application of user experience. With the iPod Touch, the UX is created for you. You don't have to think about it as Apple has determined that. For many users, this works. The IT on the other hand has a more user defined UX model. This too works for many users. However, there are downsides to both, as have been noted here and on various other forums.

My most common assessment in this compairson has been that Nokia is closer towards making a device that will blend into one's expectations better than Apple. This is not to say that Apple missed the boat; they didn't. But they did show that with the IT that Nokia should do more steering of the global UX impact of this type of computing, and then give room for the IT community (developers and users) to play within this soapbox. Doing so will make the IT a clearer compairson to the Touch, and probably to the idea of tablet computing as lots of companies have been trying to do since the Newton/Palm Pilot.

Re: iPod touch vs N810 at the Tao of Mac
 

Specs don't mean much when it sucks at all of its listed features =p

Video is terrible above 400x240, audio is not gapless and sounds OK at best. There is no media management, the browser freaks out when there is mouse over code and you can't click/drag, the email doesn't work with gmail.

Rhapsody will only stream, not let you own.

AACs and MP3's don't need conversion on touch, and 640x480 h.264 actually looks great (which the n800 can do none of)... on its TV output which he conveniently forgets to put on the list.

That said, IT SURE IS AN OPEN DEVICE! lol :)

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good points