My wait has finally come to an end as my iPod Touch arrived in the mail today! I’ve just started to play around with it and I’m ready to use it tomorrow morning on the way to work. I bought it to have some music to listen to as I travel to and from work, which will be a nice way to put myself in whatever mood I’m looking for. Sometimes I want to be energized, sometimes I want to be soothed, and sometimes I want to be uplifted. Whatever the case, my vast collection of songs (4039 to be exact) is sure to be able to whip up the right set of songs for me. I have a traditional iPod at home, but it’s bulky and I hardly ever use it, so I decided it was time for something new. It was also a nice way to treat myself and brighten my mood as I work through stressful times.
In my fiddling around, there are some features I wish it had – bluetooth, a camera, and speakers – but it provides more functions that I’ll probably ever use. I’ve enjoyed setting everything up though, for the rare cases where I actually would want to know the temperature or check on some stocks. There are also certain moments where I wish I could just integrate the phone in there as well so I don’t have to carry around a phone, camera, and the iPod. However, I certainly am not planning on using a media package phone plan in the near future, so getting an iPhone would have been rather pointless. I much prefer my 32 GB worth of storage in this sleek little sucker. I wouldn’t mind if they could have put in a camera, but truth be told, it wouldn’t suffice and I’d still end up bringing my camera with me. After all, I need flash, different focus settings, and a myriad of the features a standard digital camera has. The one thing I would use a camera on the iPod for would be quick shots of random things when I don’t have my camera handy and portraits of the people in my contact list to use in their info.
I’m really excited to head out to an Apple reseller store tomorrow (Cathay Photo) to find a nice backing for it, as well as some sort of screen protector. Then I won’t feel like it is so delicate and that I have to tote it around so gingerly! At this point I don’t want to scratch it up more so I can get something to preserve its condition, which is slightly worn in the back (but hey, it’ll be covered soon enough and it was definitely worth the discount!). There’s not much point to this post other than to share a fun, exciting piece of my life. New gadgets are always fun to play around with! Now I need to arm myself with some cool applications though – any suggestions?