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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
@minkin: hmmm... nova 2 is ~750MB... gangstar 1 (west coast) is ~250MB... gangstar 2 (miami) is ~350MB. To be fair, these games contain a decent chunk of 3D world to explore... and the latest versions (gangstar 2 and nova 2) include high res textures that looks great on retina displays.

If you use the Touch with iTunes, you just need to go to the Apps menu and check\uncheck which apps & games you want to have on your device, and it will load\unload the apps accordingly on the next sync.

Yes, you can make the purchase and redownload apps for as many times as you want, from any of the compatible App Store 'outlets': iphone, touch, ipad, itunes (win) and itunes (osx). If you purchase an app from any of the mobile device, the binary will be transferred to your iTunes machine on the next sync. This way, the system will automatically gather all your contents to your main machine for backup.

Jailbreaking basically allows the device to run unsigned binaries. Some of them:
- Allows you to run pirated apps\games.
- Allows unofficial apps\utilities that are not restricted to the official API. Some examples: there are utilities to enable 'full' multitasking, alternate UI, skins, 3g-wifi bridging for portable hotspot, and so many more.
- So, there are alternate 'app stores' with unofficial (cydia) even illegal binaries (appulous).


I definitely recommend jailbreaking, but unfortunately the latest firmware (afaik) still has an incomplete jailbreak: it needs to be tethered everytime the device reboots.
On the flipside, iOS based device have been the most stable pocketable device that I've used so far (android, maemo, wm, bb, palmos, zaurus and symbian).
To be safe, just wait til the full jailbreak is released.

HTH

Cheers, that has answered pretty much everything I have wanted to know ysss.

I did go out yesterday looking at the iPods, as it stands right now. I could get a 32gb 3rd gen iPod for the same price as the 8gb 4g.

Now this leaves me with weighing up the pros and cons between the two...

4g
  • Higher screen resolution
  • 1ghz processor
  • 256mb RAM
  • Better compatiblity for newer games
3g
  • Price (cheaper for the amount of storage)
  • Can be jailbroken (now)
Actually that's about it for the pros on the 3g. I may have to look into stretching my budget to the next model up, but with being able to sync I tunes like you said ysss, storage should not be such an issue just more of a bug bare.

Thanks again all