{"id":458,"date":"2007-09-05T20:39:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T06:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/apple-ipod-touch\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T20:40:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T06:40:26","slug":"apple-ipod-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/apple-ipod-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPod touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saying since the introduction of the <em>Apple iPhone<\/em> that I just wanted the &#8220;i&#8221; part and didn&#8217;t need the &#8220;Phone&#8221; part of it. Today, with the introduction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodtouch\/\">iPod touch<\/a>, I got my wish.. or at least part of it.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what&#8217;s missing from the iPod touch when compared to the iPhone&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phone radio (of course!)<\/li>\n<li>Bluetooth radio (aargh!)<\/li>\n<li>Camera (sigh&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Microphone and speakers (no VoIP either)<\/li>\n<li>Email client (for IMAP4 and POP3)<\/li>\n<li>Google Maps client<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, what is left is pretty good. You can watch a video introduction on Apple&#8217;s site here (though the choice of spokes-person leaves me a bit baffled).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodtouch\/guidedtour\/\">Apple iPod touch Guided Tour<\/a><br \/>\nI ordered mine this evening with shipment currently scheduled for late this month. So, you can expect to read iPod touch rants and\/or raves sometime next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saying since the introduction of the Apple iPhone that I just wanted the &#8220;i&#8221; part and didn&#8217;t need the &#8220;Phone&#8221; part of it. Today, with the introduction of the iPod touch, I got my wish.. or at least part of it. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s missing from the iPod touch when compared to the iPhone&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ipod","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-7o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}