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2007-09-10 , 19:17
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What happens when the people who buy the Touch realize you can't get free wifi anywhere (except a few places). I live in San Francisco and work downtown and there are only a very few places I could actually browse the internet and watch youtube with a Touch or a NIT.
Somehow I can't see all the casual buyers of the Touch setting up their own wifi home network. I think word will get out that you can't use the internet anywhere (not literally) with the touch, at least without paying a monthly fee at starbucks or somewhere.
The Iphone avoids all this with wireless phone service I think.
So, since NITs can pair with cell phones, this makes them much more useable than the Touch that cant do this.
Other's opinions?


Originally Posted by sherifnix View Post
I don't think the iPod Touch will affect the N800, but the iPhone is exactly what they are after. "The Internet everywhere."

Why carry a phone and a non pocketable device when you can browse the web, do email, hop on youtube and edit stuff with google docs? I installed Apollo IM and it works perfectly.

I might be in the minority on an IT based message board, but in the real world, people dont like to have a man purse just to look something up on the internet. Its just like the UMPC, there is no market, or its the wrong time and place.

I am browsing these forums, posting, listening to music, watching a tv episode on the ride home all on a device that fits in my pant pocket. Whats the point of the N800 for most people? Youll see most devices will end up in this form factor.