• Apple iPod touch Alternatives

    Apple iPod touch Alternatives

    Rohan Naravane, Sep 01, 2010 1849 hrs IST

    Though the new iPods have good improvements, what other new and upcoming options do we have?

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Apple tries to be very secretive about its new product launches but people find their way around this firewall with leaks from every nook and corner of the globe. That, along with our regular analysis makes for some educated guesses about what to expect. With the launch of the iPhone 4, we listed a few alternatives and people paid way more attention to those than the iPhone 4 itself.

Thus, we to believe that people want to know more about what else they can buy as an alternative to an Apple product. Everybody has their own reason; some dislike Apple's closed system, some can't afford their premium pricing, while a few just hate Apple in general. But you've got to admit it, they do create some innovative products that make other manufacturers work very hard to come up with a product with similar usability. It is like Apple creates a base, a platform if you will, and everybody tries to outdo the Apple product. We talked about this earlier when we wrote about 5 things that the Galaxy Tab did better than the iPad.




The iPod Touch is possibly going to get great additions like a Retina display, dual cameras for Facetime and taking snaps etc. Whatever the improvements may be, one will mostly still not escape their inability to copy-paste music via a file manager. Or the need to convert/downscale videos before they can be played back on the device, or the lack of support for popular video formats like DivX and MKV. For people distressed with these and other unchangeable factors about iPods, look beyond Apple! There are many manufacturers that already have or will soon have media players that could suit your needs. Here are our top 5 alternatives to the impending iPod Touch 4.

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(4) Comments
James
,London, on Sep 02, 2010 12:31 AM
You can use a mi-fi device so you can get internet wherever you go, so im keeping my phone and just getting a new ipod touch
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Dwayne
,Toronto, on Sep 01, 2010 07:28 PM
"Adding a GPS in a non-cellular device seems weird. How many times are you going to find Wi-fi access outdoors to use mapping applications? (GPS does not function indoors)" It's not weird. GPS doesn't require any internet/WiFi access to work. Photos can be geotagged with simply the location's coordinates. And if map data is stored locally on the device, one can use it for navigation as well.
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Russsell
,Toronto, on Sep 01, 2010 07:19 PM
"How many times are you going to find Wi-fi access outdoors to use mapping applications..." I have run up against limitations in the iPod Touch location services which would be solved simply by a GPS. GPS applications can work just fine with pre-loaded maps where currently the iPod relies on WIFI location services which will only work in dense urban areas. Why not add a GPS to the iPod Touch? Or any non cell service? Wifi is becoming ubiquitous both indoor and out.
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Rohan
,TechTree, on Sep 01, 2010 07:25 PM
Maybe in the West russell, here in India even if you're lucky enough to find a hot-spot outside, it'll be mostly guarded by a WPA2 protection for the fear of it being used by terrorists, like they did a few years ago.
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