Can't Touch This - I'll Take The IPod Touch

ENT: The debate between iPhone and iPod Touch - Online column by Bob Vaillancourt - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA.

The debate keeps raging about whether you need an iPhone if you want the entertainment, productivity and other useful apps available in the App Store, along with iTunes. Regular readers know that I am an iPod Touch proponent. Who needs to pay AT&T for a substandard phone and network, when you get everything in the Touch except the phone? I do  phone and email on a little Palm Centro that stays in my pocket or on my hip. For everything else, I have the Touch. iPhone proponents say, wait, we have access to all the web apps wherever we are, and you have to find a WiFi hotspot. Well, yes, unless you carry a portable router with mobile broadband access, like the Verizon USB 760, a tiny USB accessory that gives WiFi everywhere. And, for Verizon Wireless customers, everywhere means everywhere. Not so for the second-class AT&T network. So, with my handy portable hotspot in my pocket, I will be able to watch the other football games on my iPod Touch this afternoon with the NFL Sunday Ticket app, while I watch the New York Giants destroy my Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Comments

[twitter.com/rhillcfi]

"[Y]ou get everything in the Touch except the phone"? not exactly: the camera. Need a camera to take visual notes and to send them easily to Evernote. This lawyer is deferring buying a Touch until it includes a camera.

[Rick Georges]

Actually, my phone (and most phones today) DOES have a camera. So, the Centro serves as a Web cam, email AND phone. You don't need a camera on the Touch.

[Danny Johnson]

I completely agree. I use a Ipod touch and have a simple mobile phone on a very cheap family plan.

With Wi-Fi so prominnet (home, work, school), I have it all!

I just need one of those wi-fi hotspot things.