talk to me about iPods

[rm]

I had a generation 3 silver chiclet before the theft.

I loved it. It was light, but I could still feel if I had it or not, and it didn't have a touch screen (I hate fucking touch screens).

The chiclet no longer exists, having been replaced by some little tiny touchscreen thing that I find confusing. The shuffle is a no go. I hate the iTouch (and dude, if I'm going to go there, I'd get an iPhone which doesn't work on my carrier). So do I need to go with the Classic? Is there any benefit to ordering an old chiclet and a slightly reduced cost.

I feel like I get so much more bang for the buck with the new models, eventhough they are all bigger and heavier than I want or have the scary touch screen factor.

Weigh in?

Comments

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

The thing to bear in mind with the Classic is this: that monster actually has a spinning hard drive in it, NOT flash memory. Much higher risk of turning it into a worthless brick if you drop it.

(Whereas with flash memory--well, my ex washed his nano accidentally, but after allowing it to dry 100% it started right up and he didn't even have any data corruption. That's my iPod now, he gave it to me when he got a Touch.)

Also, why the touchscreen hate? I get not liking a glitchy touchscreen but I have an iPhone and it's been 100% reliable, so was the ex's iTouch on the rare occasion he let me play with it.

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Until I got on thyroid meds, the touchscreens were a little iffy for me because my fingers were too unreactive. Now they're fine.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Wait, talk to me about this. What makes touchscreens work?

Does it have to do with body temp? If so, there's my problem -- celiacs have terrible circulation as a rule and the things just don't like me.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I think most modern touchscreens no longer use body temp recognition but either pressure or conductance of skin (IDK if that last is also a problem for celiacs?).

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but people with low body temp also may have capacitance issues. I certainly seemed to.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

I have to breathe on my fingers sometimes to make the touch screens on the machines at my gym work for me. I've always had pretty cold hands, but I was fat for a while in my late twenties and early thirties, and it raised my body temp. I lost all that weight and my body temp has fallen again. It's not a problem with my iPad or iPod touch, but normal touch screens, like automated ticket kiosks, touch-screen bank machines, and gym machines, tend to have problems with me.

[remydesire.livejournal.com]

The screen for the ipod touch doesn't work if you have gloves on, so it's not pressure. It drives me nuts in the winter.

Try wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#Capacitive

[dsmoen.livejournal.com]

In my case, I think it was body temp -- getting my thyroid in range raised my body temp by 3/10 of a degree.

But yeah, us celiacs do have lousy circulation.

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

it absolutely does have to do with body temp. I support wireless for a living, and configure about 3 iPhones a day - and have always had cold hands, even before I got fat.

Getting iPhones to respond to me sometimes involves sitting on my fingers for a minute or so to heat them up, if it's really chilly in my cube... :)

[fleur.livejournal.com]

True about the hard drives in the Classics. If you drop it and break the hard drive, it's all over. Plus anything you had on it is gone, if it's not properly synced with iTunes.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

Learned this the hard way--not with an iPod, but an mp3 player. "It'll hold my entire library, though!" Yeah, until it hit a tile floor one night at work. Tragic.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

I washed my poor Nano. I wonder now if it might have survived the experience if it hadn't got wedged on the agitator and physically mangled... {sigh}

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

Very possibly, not that it's much comfort. =( That sucks.