Touch Screen Fun

Advantages: Original, nice looking, sturdy
Disadvantages: Limited range of games

...screen. It really is excellent, and makes the DS worth the money. It is accurate, generally easy to control and the screen doesn't scratch permanently (you do get temporary scratches, but these rub off easily). There is a handy holder for the stylus on the side so it'll be quite difficult to lose it. There is also a D-Pad and four buttons for non-touch screen games, which are clear and easy to use. Another control is the microphone - I have only used this for 'blowing' games, not 'talking' games, however my experience of it is negative. It doesn't work, and you'll give yourself a nasty headache trying to blow into it anyway. -Extras- The range of extras are things like an alarm, a Wi-Fi chatroom and a customisable profile. You can also change the colour of the start-up screen to suit your tastes. These extras are neat, but nothing to...

kaledrina 30.07.2007 · Read review
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Touch Magic

Advantages: Great sound quality, great applications
Disadvantages: Battery Life, Fingerprints, could be better

...at the bottom, these allows you to look through your playlists, artists, songs, albums or more. Just like you usually would get. The touch technology is brilliant when you play music, the pause, play, back, forward buttons are all accessible just by one touch of the finger. You control the volume not only at the side of the IPod but also on the screen by scrolling it across. The great addition that the second generation provides is the speakers installed within the IPod, they are not fantastic, but they do allow you to play your music out loud without using an IPod dock or anything like that. Videos I gave blood again today, and usually I have quite a hard time. Instead of 10 minutes it takes about 30-45 minutes to get blood out of me, so I took my IPod and lay down and turned on an episode of Bones. I so far only have 2 videos...

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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

iTouch!

Advantages: Packed with applications, very handy and easy to use.
Disadvantages: Keyboard is hard to use, no flash player and not very durable without a case.

...such as Dailymotion. This, obviously, is a drawback. Hopefully, Apple will look into sorting this out for future versions. Other than that, the Safari browser is very good. It's fairly quick, like other browsers, it depends on your connection speed as to how fast your pages load. The iTunes store is a great inclusion on the device. I like the idea that you can be sitting out with your friends and if someone mentions a good song or you hear a good song then you can just access your iTunes and purchase the song (provided your in a wi-fi hotspot). It's really good. You can then listen to it using the iPod feature, which is what the device is built around. But the other functions kind of put the iPod section into the shadows. The touch screen is very responsive and so far, using my brothers 8GB version, I haven't encountered any problems...

Timothij 18.08.2008 · Read review
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iTouch

Advantages: Brilliant
Disadvantages: Nono

...sleek bit of equipment, the iPod is really beautiful looking and the screen is just big enough So I bought them, what I didn't know is that by doing so I am now the coolest sister ever apparently. I have never seen two teenagers smile so much and say thank you so much. Now the first stage was obviously setting them up. There are many different things that you need to set up, the first thing we did was make sure that the iTouch was connected, I didn't realise that when you have one of these, you can connect anyway where there is WiFi, we have also learnt that if we would like to pay £5 a month, we can be connected anywhere, which i think is bloody excellant. There's no point being connected and yo don't know what for, the iTouch comes with a small selection of standard fuctions, one is youtube, one is google and there is another one...

amyloop 31.01.2009 · Read review
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Getting Your Kid Into Digital Cameras

Advantages: Features Like Any Regular Digital Camera
Disadvantages: 16 MB Internal Memory and No Zoom Capabilities

...No digital camera review on CIAO would be complete without a few entries about cameras designed for kids. After all, kids are almost universally enthusiastic about taking pictures. And parents with a love of photography often pass down their passion to their children. But digital cameras are not always kid-friendly, due to fragile construction, price, or complicated menus and buttons. The newest trend in children's electronics is a group of digital cameras made especially for small children. These cameras are easy to hold, come in bright colors that kids love, and have many of the same features as grown-up digital cameras. Kids love them. The VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera is one of the top digital cameras for kids. This camera was made with fun in mind. Kids like the KidiZoom's large LCD screen and the onboard photo editing options...

bennyong 21.12.2008 · Read review
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A Touch Too Much?

Advantages: App store, built in speaker, external volume control
Disadvantages: None (so far)

...fired it up for the first time. As the 2nd generation Touch has a speaker built in internally, it let out a small 'ping' which was a little unexpected as I had forgotten most of what I had read about the new models. I also noticed the additional external volume control buttons on the side. These, I believe, are straight from the iPhone, and has already proved to be an excellent feature for me. All the icons appeared instantly on the screen and I started checking them out. I also found that the touchscreen is very responsive and does not need hardly any pressure to select an icon. I had used my brother-in-law's first gen Touch before so knew the basic interface but I noticed the Application store icon had an icon on the homepage now. I had looked through some of the apps on the iTunes store when it was launched but didn't really find...

macmonkey 09.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

  iPod Touch 8GB

Advantages: intuitive, stylish, fun, great music player, variety of features, internet function
Disadvantages: fingerprints! no camera, no built in speakers, only available in black currently

...have a built in camera. Summary Overall I think the iPod Touch is brilliant. It does lack a few features which I have mentioned above but it is such a nice little device that is discreet, so easy to use that until you have had a go on one you really can't imagine just how easy it is! At almost £200 it isn't cheap but I do think it is worth it. There are plenty of accessories available including covers to protect from all those fingerprints! Considering that it is a touch screen, the device itself feels nicely robust and is made to a high quality. It by far beats any other music players that I have seen or used and as Apple advance the technology futher to add more features it can only get better! Definitely a great music player, very useful as a PDA and a great exciting gift to give someone although you will end up wishing you...

ilusvm 24.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

ipod touch review

Advantages: Attractive, easy to use touch screen and applications
Disadvantages: Expensive and the headphones are not very durable

...In my opinion the iPod touch is the best in the MP3 player category. With features such as the applications and album artwork it is much more than just a music playing device. However, I would recommend most music listeners to go for a higher memory option. The headphones are not very durable however, and are expensive to replace. That s one drawback of the iPod, all the accessories and software updates tend to be expensive. With the accessories it may be best to look elsewhere than the official Apple products as there are good alternatives. Unless you want a simple music player, in which case I would recommend the iPod shuffle, I think this easily beats the competition in attractiveness and, like most Apple products, just being cool! Its is not the cheapest in its category, but I think it is without a doubt the best....

bencoates 06.10.2009 · Read review
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Touch like an iPod

Advantages: Quality is brilliant and all the functions are Useful
Disadvantages: Fingerprints and Scratches

...Ministry of Sound CD player, see other review. Video Quality I have put quite a few podcasts on ym Ipod and it has blown me away, I think that it's incredible that you can fit a whole video onto one 3.5inch screen. The main problem is that you can't transfer DVD's straight to your iPod without buying software. I think that the capability to be able to move the angle around is fantastic and takes complete advantage of the touch screen capabilities. There is also no gap between the sound and video which would annoy me if there was. I also think that the quality is so good that it can't be long before they introduce an iplayer software download. Picture Functionality This is a really important feature on the iPod touch, but is let down by the lack of Bluetooth to get pictures from a phone or a camera, this takes the quality down slightly...

rhyrhy1 17.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Apple iPod touch 8 GB

Ipod Touch 8Gb with engraving

Advantages: All the features of the iphone but without the massive price tag
Disadvantages: battery life could be better

...require to browse on the move. It allows cookies and javascript to run and allows you to have upto 8 browser windows open at a time. The touch comes with its own Youtube application which allows you to watch videos without the need to use the Safari browser. Google maps is another standard feature which is great if you are lost as (with the aid of a wireless signal) you can pinpoint your exact location which I must admit I find fascinating. Zooming in on the maps is simple too, by placing your thump and forefinger of the screen and then pulling them apart will zoom the map. Also pushing these fingers together will zoom the map out. This functionality can also be used in the Safari browser. There are other functions which will be less commonly used such as getting the latest weather and a neat little Nike application which monitors how far you...

craggybuk 13.05.2009 (15.05.2009) · Read review
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