iPhone/iPod Touch Thread

[piku]

Cool, ta.

What's typing on it like? I was ready to stab my N800 through its screen if I had to endure the onscreen keyboard. I own an N810 but it's not the best for music. I've been using a 1GB Shuffle for a few weeks and have found it much more pleasant with iTunes than manually copying files into my N810.

It's WiFi only, right?

[PVB]

I find typing on it surprisingly easy, even though I'm a shit typist.

Transfer of files and such is WiFi only, AFAIK.

[WiteWulf]

Eh? No, no, no....almost no file transferring can be done over WiFi except buying stuff from iTunes and the App Store. You'll be syncing your music over the USB connection and, unless you're using something like MobileMe, your iCal and Address Book syncs will happen when you physically connect too.

Having said that, if you Jailbreak it then yes, you may find yourself SCP'ing files over to it via WiFi but most good apps appear in Cydia or Installer.app once your Jailbroken so there's no need to manually shift files around.

[RiK]

If you're running 'Files' or any of the other (many) similar apps you can just drag and drop just about anything you want on it. It's really not an issue..

[PVB]

Eh? No, no, no....almost no file transferring can be done over WiFi except buying stuff from iTunes and the App Store.

He didn't specifiy what sort of iles, so I guessed he meant music and such.

[wanye]

If you're running 'Files' or any of the other (many) similar apps you can just drag and drop just about anything you want on it. It's really not an issue..

i bet you cant drop mp3s on and get it to add them to the library though...

can it?

[wanye]

ooh shit. i just shot my wad

http://www.pwnplayer.com/
http://www.pwnplayer.com/
http://www.pwnplayer.com/

i can finally ditch itunes on my mac mini and start uploading music to my touch using my desktop linux box

i just hope its not vapourware or an elaborate hoax...

[Misfit]

Cool, ta.

What's typing on it like? I was ready to stab my N800 through its screen if I had to endure the onscreen keyboard. I own an N810 but it's not the best for music. I've been using a 1GB Shuffle for a few weeks and have found it much more pleasant with iTunes than manually copying files into my N810.

Typing works surprising well. The touch is very sensitive on the these and nothing like the Nokias.

I tend to do one finger stuff, but you could try two thumbs, but I get surprising speed and accuracy. The auto correct is often right, which helps.

[piku]

Mr WhiteWulf, you have a PM

[Nixie]

posting from my spanky new itouch.

This machine is a little wonder!

[HGFB]

Bloody Apple. The 32gig Touch with volume buttons and speaker was just too much to resist. Now I need to sell my 16gig 1g Touch

[piku]

Now I need to sell my 16gig 1g Touch

In a curious coincidence I've just bought WiteWulf's 16g 1G Touch off him

I now await the unending fun of re-ripping my entire music collection.

[HGFB]

Why do you need to rerip them? Are you an OggFag?

[amanset]

Why do you need to rerip them? Are you an OggFag?

Or a WMA silly billy.

[piku]

Why do you need to rerip them? Are you an OggFag?

You can't play OGGs on an iPod Touch, can you?

My N810 plays OGGs, but it's a pain in the bum manually copying music from my PC onto my N810 - I can't, for example, fill it with "rock" or "my favourite tracks" etc. By fully enbracing the iTunes way of doing things I'll be able to do that with my Touch. I used to waste easily half an hour choosing music to put on my N810, then waiting for it to copy them.

I might just rip them as ALAC and then in the future I'll be able to transcode them to other formats when the iPod fad dies out in 10 years or so.