September 19th, 2008My fustrations with the iPod touch!
After using the Ipod touch for about a year now, I personally think its one of the best gadgets I have bought in years.Its no news that is one of the best mobile devices with a great and easy to use interface. Its a video and music player,a minimal PDA, simple game console and the list goes on, but there are some features I am wondering why apple opted out on including on the device. I am definitely sure there are readers out there wondering about same thing with this device, I hope the guys at apple are busy working something out on these issues. These 3 issues are currently giving me a big headache on my device.
*Music Search : If you have hundreds of thousands of music on your touchy device, there is no doubt that there is a track hidden somewhere in your gigantic library you want to quickly dig out, wouldnt it be nice if there is a search functionality in the music player? . I dont know why search functionality was not implemented on the music application for the ipod touch /iphone. One cant even edit the playlist on the device. Stuck with the “on the go” list.
* Microhphone : Everyone out there with an ipod touch/iphone knows what I am talking about in this case. Imagine having a microphone on your ipod touch.Skype,Fring? . Does any of those applications ring bells? . Mobile podcasters will greatly benefit from this feature too because they can do their podcasting on the go, upload to some server or so. I am even thinking about live broadcasting or something like that and where is skype for the iphone platform anyways?. You can quickly drop friends a shout out one some social network site, facebook or so. I think that will be nice, not that I am great fan of a facebook, but voip on the ipod touch will be a dream come true.
*Wireless Sync So much for apple’s idea of minimum cables with their iMac desktops, how about placing your ipod touch/iphone on your desk and watch the sweet device hook up to your network and grab the latest songs/podcast/video from your library and we can reduce one cable on the desk?. The device could be lock down to a particular itune application like the remote device, I mean how hard can that be (Apple style i meant, i wouldnt mind multiple libraries)? … It will be nice to leave your device in your car in the garage and let that baby sync itself over night or something.
*Video Download Unless you jailbreak your device and get mxtube, you are stuck with streaming video every time you want to see a video on the go. With 8/16/32GB devices in my pocket,I would love to download those funny “cat playing piano” videos from youtube or so,at least i have the space. I might be saving bandwidth on the long run too because users will not have to download the video every time they want to watch something. My ipod touch brothers out there, once your are out of the coverage of Wifi, you are out of luck.
This list can go on and on and I am sure there plenty of people out there with bigger list, but of all this fustration, I can’t wait until apple announce possibilites to wirelessly sync your ipod tocuh/iphone wireless device.
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