Time to say good-bye to my first iPod Mini, which I got as a gift 3 years ago. I got my new iPod Touch also as a gift almost a month ago, right before my trip to Shanghai, from one of our vendors though. That's why I don't get my name engraved in the back of the touch this time.
I had to say, it's awesome, has almost everything I wanted. I can surf the web, do the email, listen to the music, watch movies, look pictures, check maps, etc. etc. And now, after I unlock it I have a whole bunch 3rd party applications running on it too, like games, eBooks, view PDFs, etc.
The built-in apps on original Touch already covered most of the areas. If you are not comfortable with your touch being hacked, you still can enjoy a lot of the entertainment from it. But I highly recommend doing so because it simply opens another big door for you and allows you to have a lot more loaded on your toy. If I can't convince a people to buy an iTouch by just the embedded application, I certainly can with all the new cool 3rd party applications. Now, my apps icons are filled up almost two screens. I can hardly be getting bored anymore.
To unlock your iPhone or Touch, simply go to ZiPhone and download the ZiPhone application which unlocks your device and installs the installer package on it. The installer package has tons of applications included, from utilities to games, and from productivities to eBook. And the nice thing is, it checks and gets updated everyday so any new released applications arrives on your thing automatically.
Viewing web on Touch is also a very good. It works especially good, almost near perfect, for Google or any website that has the mobile version. It's just extremely comfortable reading my feeds on Google Reader, checking my email on Gmail, and even viewing the documents or spreadsheet on Google Docs.
iTouch perfectly fits almost all my needs and I don't see the needs to upgrade it to iPhone near in the future. Yes, I can't make the call, I can't be online at all time, I can't text messaging, but all these come with the price. The only thing I miss from iPhone is probably the camera.