{"id":569,"date":"2009-05-28T15:25:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T20:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/poojanblog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2009-05-28T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T20:26:25","slug":"iphone-vs-ipod-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/iphone-vs-ipod-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone vs iPod Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at CNN: “Microsoft’s Zune HD to debut this fall” – SciTechBlog<\/a>, John D. Sutter asks why anyone would chose the iPod Touch over the iPhone. I’ll tell you exactly why I bought my wife an iPod touch rather than an iPhone:<\/p>\n

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  1. Monthly fee: The $70\/month the AT&T bill for the iPhone is steep. It’d be worth it if she needed<\/em> that connectivity…<\/li>\n
  2. Tethered mobility: … however, she doesn’t really want connectivity when she’s not around the house. She’s cool with checking email when she gets home.<\/li>\n
  3. I’ve heard the iPhone is great device, but not a great phone. Yeah: it’d be more convenient to have the all-in-one portable device platform and phone together. However, I’ve heard from numerous people (none of whom are allegiant to Motorola) that the iPhone isn’t terribly good as a phone. In truth, I never really found out why: call quality, user interface, etc. However, the suboptimality of the phone stuck in my head.<\/li>\n
  4. It pretty much runs everything the iPhone does: the iPod touch pretty much runs every app that the iPhone runs, so she’s really not giving up anything.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In fact, I wonder if people tend to by the iPhone because<\/em> they don’t know how capable the iPod touch is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Over at CNN: “Microsoft’s Zune HD to debut this fall” – SciTechBlog, John D. Sutter asks why anyone would chose the iPod Touch over the iPhone. I’ll tell you exactly why I bought my wife an iPod touch rather than an iPhone: Monthly fee: The $70\/month the AT&T bill for the iPhone is steep. It’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[147,148,149],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktop-computing","tag-gadgets","tag-iphone","tag-ipod-touch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}