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Apple iPod touch 3rd Gen 64GB video review

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As a mere media player, you'd be hard pushed to justify the high cost of an iPod touch. But as a mobile computing device that will run 3rd party apps, play games, browse the web and play your media, it's simply unrivalled. Read full review

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By Hugo Jobling
Reviewed 18 September 2009
Updated 26 May 2011

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£299.00

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Apple iPod touch 3rd Gen 64GB details

Value
9/10
Usability
10/10
Sound Quality
8/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£299.00

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Apple

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1:10 AM on 18 September, 2009

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wonder what happened to the 16Gb version would have been great at the £170-£185 price point

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8:32 AM on 18 September, 2009

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The biggest "miss" to my mind was not putting GPS in. That would have been a really good thing.

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9:01 AM on 18 September, 2009

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Yeah, gotta agree with Jay, it's a shame they didn't make a 16Gb third gen model at something around £175. That would have been the perfect upgrade model for me from my first gen 16Gb. As it is it's very difficult to justify £230 for an extra 16Gb I'm unlikely to use, bluetooth and a faster processor. The camera would have gone a long way towards solving that particular dilema.





All that said, it's still the best portable media player out there. It may not have the packed specs of some of its competitors but the whole package is so much nicer and easier to use. Add in the ridiculously comprehensive iPod ecosystem and it's hard to justify anything else really.

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9:12 AM on 18 September, 2009

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Indeed and why no Camera like the iPhone.





Still a cracking device

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10:11 AM on 18 September, 2009

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the original touch wasn't exactly a slouch in its own right, and until i see some apps that take advantage of the extra graphical horsepower (tekken iphone ftw!), the only real benefit is teh 64GB capacity...





that's unless you don't have a 2nd gen one, though.

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12:14 PM on 18 September, 2009

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"As a mere media player, you'd be hard pushed to justify the high cost of an iPod touch." That seems precisely the point to me...if you're the kinda person who likes their tech enough to splash out £300 on an mp3 player, surely you've already got a phone that covers the mobile computing, apps and web browsing? What you want is something that does what your phone doesn't - ie play music at decent quality without needing a charge every day. Web browsing and apps/games might be a nice extra, but that price premium seems high to me just to have a slightly smoother web and app experience than sony or creative will give you (and you're also sacrificing sound quality!).

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1:06 PM on 18 September, 2009

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(I think that lady just hadn't recovered from your MBA review yet.)





Um, we've given you a lot of stick lately but I don't mind saying that this is a decent review. Not quite a 9 for me (the Touch, not Hugo), but as a long time admirer of 'the-iPhone-without-the-crappy-phone-part', I think this is the most attractive package yet because the price is at long last in the same ballpark as the capacity. Like you said £300 isn't peanuts but it is about 60-odd GBs of flash in a touchscreen mobile computer.





And while a camera would be nice, I don't find it to be a dealbreaker either. What's happened is that adding it to the Nano has emphasised its omission and just built up resentment in a critical community that's had to toss a huge chunk of it's pre-written reviews in the trash.





My one criticism would be that I think more attention should be paid to sound quality in a device most frequently use as an MP3 player. At the price point of a Sansa Clip, one can allow sound to slip down the list of priorities, but because this is a premium product and it's never been quite up there with the best, while they bundle such appalling earphones, I'd knock it down another point. I agree though that iTunes 9 is more respectable and I factor that in to mitigating the damage on the music front. It's still a bit baggy but I am loving the Home Sharing facility.





All in all, with a few more months spare change handy, I may be tempted to finally go over to the dark side and fully own an iPod.

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what grates me is the fact that apple have used pretty deacent hardware in it but have chosen not to use it at its full potential specifically the wireless chip which has a built in FM radio, built in FM transmitter and supports wireless N! £230 or £300 sounds a lot better if for the sake of a bit of software to fully use these was included with the option of turning them off rather than not having the option at all.

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2:08 PM on 18 September, 2009

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Could I use this as a 64GB external hard drive under Windows or Linux (Ubuntu in my case)? I.e. does it present itself as a mass storage device when connected via USB to the aforementioned operating systems?

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I'm hardly Apples biggest fan, but this is a nice product, at for once a not massively inappropriate price.





I'd still far rather have a Zune HD, which in head to head comparisons comes out way ahead.. and no iTunes.





As for the lack of a camera, just shhh. It's completely irrelevant on a PMP. My fridge doesn't have one either.

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