Considering ipod touch... need some convincing

ok, so after 3 days of going to the meca that is MacWorld, i am very close to getting a touch. I have a first gen nano right now, and want something more. I am locked in for a year and a half with verizon, so an iphone seems out of the question. I played around with the touch and absolutely love it. Basically, I would just like to hear some of your opinions, and how you like/dislike it. The main thing holding me back is the wifi, I dont know how much free wifi i could find, but i do live in SF, so there is some out there. I know I could wait untill they update it, but I can pick on up at the show for $254, thats a pretty good deal in my book. Thanks

Hey!
Apart from the last few days of high drama surrounding the fair/unfair arguments about the latest updates from Apple.I would have said buy it NOW!
It is a marvellous thing.I love mine.You will love yours.
Langdon has a point though.
Hold on a couple of weeks see what Apple do when the 3rd party Apps are available(and for how much!).
Don't think you need to worry about the Flash card increase just yet!
There's alot of unhappy iPT users at the moment and you probably wouldn't want to be in their shoes. But if you REALLLLLY want one then go get it!
Cheers,
John

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I had the same problem with one particular track I downloaded off Limewire earlier today and I've downloaded lotsa stuff on there over the years. I guess I'm fortunate compared to some of you with like 10 songs affected.
Anyways a little troubleshooting helps here. First off, it shouldn't be happening with any track downloaded off iTunes. Those are clean as a whistle in my experiences although iPod touch had some bug issues with songs stopping few seconds into them when they first came out last year. That problem appears to have been rectified unless you guys haven't done an update lately on your units.
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Ugh, that's what I was afraid of. And I didn't (because for some reason, this never occurred to me). I think it's time for plan b - to reset my password to what it was, go in and delete / remove any of those e-mails that I'm worried about and leave it for about two weeks. So if anyone does have it who shouldn't ends up going through my e-mail, it'll update and remove things.
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For photos synced to the iPod you have to unsync them:
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Here is my issue...
Our computer was recently repaired. In the process, it was discovered that iTunes had some major issues. The technician did a thorough uninstall , including removing iTunes from the registry, and reinstalled it. I added all of our music back into our iTunes library, with the exception of playlists because those were lost. When I plugged in my iPod touch, iTunes told me to erase my iPod if I want it to sync with this computer. Windows was not re-installed, the hard drive was not replaced, and all of the prior system configurations remain the same (becides the fact was iTunes was reinstalled). I do not want to erase my iPod, as I have application data on it. Also, my family has 5 iPods, and that would be a very long process to recreate all the playlists, erase iPods, and set up the iPods as new ones. Any help or suggestions are greatly apprecieated.

This is correct.
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Hello, I was hoping some of the current users of the iPod touch 2nd generation cna answer a few questions for me concerning the ipod touch, particularly those with an ipod classic as well.
I have had a 160 GB iPod classic for about a year. I had to take it back to be replaced twice because of harddrive failures. After I got the last new one I was fed up and decided to sell it on ebay. I have heard there were issues with the 80 and 160 GBs and the 120 is much better. There is a software upgrade that includes using the genious feature on your ipod for the 120's that was never available for the 160's. And since they discontinued the 160's, I'm assuming there was definately something wrong with that and Apple is too proud to admit to it, so they just roll with the 120's. So with that in mind I figured I'd sell my current 160 since the worst I could do is get the better model of the classic?
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Hello alan_dr,
alan_dr wrote:
Hi
I just bought a new ipod touch and it didn't work out of the box. I had to connect it to itunes to register it (or something). Is this correct? The store assistant says all new ipods need this, but the Apple help desk person says it should work out of the box.
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