Thread: I got an iPod Touch (review compared to an N810)
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2008-03-27 , 18:51
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Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Question for anyone who has actually used an iTouch or iPhone for reading and/or movie watching:

(1) Do you have a sense as to how it would be to watch a feature-length movie on the iTouch?
It was fine. I watched one flying to the states once. Much better quality than the planes screen, easier to see (not to mention the sound was much better). I put it on my tray table on its little stand (that it comes with).

Other than that I wouldn't watch a movie on it, but that is because i have a full size television at home, so I use that (and I wouldn't watch a movie elsewhere that I can think of).

Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
To my surprise, the N800 is comfortably sufficient for the task, and my guess is that the iTouch would be too small. And do you know if it's possible to rip a DVD and get it into the iTouch in a practical way?
It wasn't too small. To get a movie on it, I ripped it with handbreak and then put it in iSquint (both free). It compressed it and copied it straight to the iPod, very practical and very easy. I think there are some one click tools to do it, but I was just using what I know. Quality was great.

Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
(2) Do you know how the iTouch is as a book reader? Again, to my great surprise, I really like reading books in FBReader.
I have only done that for one technical book that I needed, and it was again ok, pretty much like the palm reader (or the pocketPC one). Probably best on that one to ask someone else, as I have just used the one book, as I am more a dead tree kind of guy (I do electronic publications for a living - don't want to use them in my spare time!)