iPod touch 32GB

While in Toronto this weekend, we stopped into the Apple store to play with the new 32GB iPod touch. My feelings about the first edition was, they’re cool, but 16GB isn’t quite enough. Also, they lacked the web-browser, email and calendaring capabilities of the phone so I was, like, fuck that.

What a difference a few months can make.

The new touch is totally what I wanted it to be when it came out. It’s a web pad that can play video. The wifi support is outstanding, and able to connect to WPA secured hotspots with ease. It should drastically cut down on my need for data on my blackberry.

Video support is what you’d expect on an iPod. MPEG4 or H.264 only. I’ve been using Quicktime with Perian to do my transcoding, though beltzner keeps recommending iSquint so I may have to give that a try and ditch my clunky Automator workflow.

Playback is very smooth on the touch. You don’t get the somewhat clunky loadtimes as on the 5G iPods. Though I haven’t really done any critical listening, audio quality seemed very good on my Koss Portapros. I still expect to use my 5G ‘pod for listening to audio and podcasts and keeping the touch as more of a video player. *note that the iPod touch and iPhone didn’t suffer from the downgrade to Crystal Audio Digital Audio deCoder chips and are still using the more audiophile-friendly Wolfsons. See disassembly photos.

All in all I’m very happy with it and can’t wait for my next trip to spend some quality time using it.

current storage capacity: 386GB

boolean is listening to Calculation Theme by Metric from the album Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?