Apple has posted their 85-page iPod touch Features Guide online which covers many features and may give some hints as to future iPhone enhancements and capabilities (keyboard language support, etc.) coming via future software update(s).
The Guide covers:
• Getting Started
• Basics
• Music and Video
• Photos
• iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
• Applications
• Settings
• And more
See the Apple’s iPod touch Features Guide (6.8MB .pdf) here.
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so why was the email function removed? also widgets would be fairly useful one would think…
The Camel Times will have to wait while I gen up on the itouch, or is it ipod touch?
iPod touch is not “always connected” like iPhone.
Use web-based email like .Mac or Gmail or whatever to check your email via iPod touch when in a Wi-Fi hotspot.
If you really want iPhone’s mail and widgets features, get an iPhone.
Product differentiation is an art that Apple mastered long ago.
Looks like I’m gonna have to buy an iPod Classic for now and wait for rev. 2 or 3. It’s just disappointing how Apple is “differentiating” this so much from the iPhone. Plus our campus network requires WPA enterprise username:password, which is currently unsupported. What a bummer, I really want one, but with only 16 gigs and it not connecting to wifi 80% of the time I’d have it with me, I just can’t justify the touch over the 160gig classic.
They still should let you change your calendar events
Because its an iPod that is designed to play music and videos – not a communications device.
You want email – get an iPhone!
Why doesn’t it support Vista Home Basic? Not like I’d ever use such a disgusting operating system, but still, there are those people who’ll be bothered by that. I’m gonna blame Vista, personally. It’s quite funny, actually, I work at Office Max, and not a day goes by where we don’t have someone come in complaining about something not working with Vista. Like this guy, bought a brand new HP Vista computer, and a brand new HP printer, and the printer didn’t work with Vista, and he couldn’t understand why his HP printer didn’t work with his HP computer. I tried to keep the “That’s Vista for you”s to a minimal.
MW-felt, as in, I felt you all needed to know about how crappy Vista is, if you didn’t already
first it was i just want the iPhone to play videos and music. i wish they didn’t ship it as a brick. Now they give that to you and people complain it doesn’t do email or have the widgets. The reason they don’t give you that is because they already have that product out, and it is called an iPhone. So buy one instead of making excuses about why you shouldn’t.
@ Petey: “You want email – get an iPhone!”
But, then you have to pay for the data plan, which ends up being $500 more over the next two years. When I all I want is the ability to write email or even just notes, $500 is an expensive email device.
It would be trivial to add a notes program (and ideally an email program, but I understand product differentiation). That would make it so much more useful. Now, it’s just limited to giving you information instead of receiving information from you.
MDN word – almost, as in the iPod Touch is almost good enough, but lacking in it’s ability to receive input.
I wish I could get an iPhone. But that will not be possible for a while in many countries outside the US. Therefore the iPod Touch without the phone part is the only way to go for many of us. But no full iCal and other apps do not really make us happy.
@OMG: “The reason they don’t give you that is because they already have that product out, and it is called an iPhone.”
iPhone is expensive when all I want is the ability to write email – I don’t even need to send it right way, I can wait until I have access to wi-fi.
Intentionally taking away features to justify another product is very annoying. Apple could trivially add notes or email to the iPod Touch, but they are intentionally crippling it to encourage you to pay substantially more for a lot of other features I don’t want. It’s a lot like how cable companies bundle lots of channels together to make it seem like a good deal, when in reality, I only want 5 of them.
Quevar,
What part of web-based email don’t you understand?
@ Force Quit: “What part of web-based email don’t you understand?”
The part about how I can’t write e-mails on a train that has no wifi and send them when I get to work.
Quevar,
Dude, just load up as many compose and/or reply pages as you wish in Safari before you board the train using multiple browser pages and leave them there.
You’ll be all set to write emails on a train that has no Wi-Fi which you can then send when you get to work.
Or just sit around pretending that a brand new product has had features “removed” when it hasn’t.
Whining is no substitute for using your head.
@Quevar
“Intentionally taking away features to justify another product is very annoying.” – you’ve said this twice in this thread and it’s not quite accurate. Nothing has been taken away from this product. It doesn’t have a feature that you want. Apple has put communications in it’s iphone, and kept the ipod as video and music only. You can sync your calendar and addressbook just like before. But you’re asking a music/video product to ADD a feature that was never intended for it. Nothing has been removed from the iPod Touch.
My god!!!! 85 pages to learn out to drive this thing…..Printing right now…
@ Force Quit: …”just load up as many compose and/or reply pages as you wish in Safari before you board the train using multiple browser pages and leave them there.”
The demo units tend to crash after about 3-5 pages and I really don’t want to write several e-mails and have Safari crash before I send them. Why not just let me save it to the flash memory?
@ Jim – TIV
People originally were calling for an iPhone without the phone and now people are claiming that the iPod Touch is just that. It’s not because it also lacks any other sort of way to input and store information on the device itself. Apple intentionally did not add (to be more precise) this functionality into it to make it more differentiable. That makes it very unappealing to me and the iPhone isn’t worth the additional price given my circumstances. Given the price per features, neither of them is worth it to me. I truly would like an iPhone that lacks only the phone and keeps the email and notes apps, plus a way to add items to my calender. I think they are both fabulous products for many people, but they don’t meet my needs.
I understand that the Touch is an iPod and they have traditionally not allowed input, but that frustrates me and is the reason I will not be buying one – it doesn’t do what I want it to do. I don’t expect Apple to add that functionality, but if they did, I would buy one that day.
Then, Quevar, you’re one of the three people on earth who are not served by either an iPod touch or an iPhone. I suggest you look elsewhere for your needs if Apple isn’t offering a product that you like. Good luck with that.
They really should let you add calendar events. It’s just silly that they include a calendar that you can’t change when the device has a keyboard. What’s the difference between that and the contacts which you CAN add to?
I understand the email thing. But the dumb calendar is silly. Syncing the calendar from the computer is hardly better than just printing it out and carrying it in my pocket…. Actually printing it is better, cause I can write in the pages.
You have to have wifi for Safari to work, you have to have wifi for the iTunesWifi store to work and and you have to have wifi for e-mail to work. What’s the difference? Disabling Mail really does seem quite pointless and I’m a rabid Apple fan from the Mac SE days.
Webmail is more cumbersome than Mail, just like having to use a browser as a storefront is more cumbersome than using iTunes as a storefront.
If people can’t figure out that Mail doesn’t work when you’re not in a wifi hotspot, they probably won’t be able to figure out why Safari doesn’t work when you’re not in a wifi hotspot.
Unless there’s some “agreement” with ATT, I’ll be really surprised if the Mail and Calendar thing isn’t fixed within six months. Those are really pointless limitations.
When creating a new product, work of art, writing a book, building a web site or any number of creative endeavors you have to decide when it is done. You allow some time after it is ‘completed’ to review, you wonder should I do this, should I add that but at some point in time you have to say lets go with what I’ve got. Very rarely does an artist think their work is perfect, ask most any (after a couple of drinks when inhibitions are lessened) and they will say well maybe I should have done x or y. Of course software to a great extent has changed the paradigm, once a painting is exhibited it is done, once a book is printed there’s no going back. Not absolutely a new paradigm though, for example when doing a window display one may adjust after some time. Rarely, very rarely, is a work
perfect, especially in the eyes of its creator.
The iPhone doesn’t do this, the itouch doesn’t do that, well for a lot of people they are perfect, for many more they are great. Sure input is welcome but don’t get hung up over it, buy it or not. You can be 99% sure that the folks at Apple have considered what you want and for some reasons, more complex than most imagine, the answer is not this time around. Version 2 or a software update may get you what you want, which would be nice I’m sure.
LOL, another sad attempt by Apple to try and make the iPod Touch competitive in our Microsoft dominated world. Good thing too, because with Microsoft manuals, each and every page from 1 to 1000 are chock full of usable information. Not fluffy stuff to try and make the PDF files have more pages so that it looks powerful. I’m sure Apple triple spaced most of the sentences and added a lot of fancy gibberish to fill up to 85 pages. Then most Apple Fanboys all feel impressive with their mostly fluff 85 pages of how to use an iPod Touch.
You with hands-on experice on iPhone:
How necessary is the autocorrection/prediction in entering text with the virtual keyboard? “if you trust the keyboard you can really fly”
iPod touch has only English (U.S. and UK), French and German dictionaries.
Will the keyboard still be usable when writing in Italian, Spanish or other local European languages?
http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html
Languages
English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Polish
International keyboard support for English, UK English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Portuguese
Dictionary support for English, UK English, French, and German
Interestingly, at least Scandinavian, German and French sites do not say anything about International keyboard support or Dictionary support:
http://www.apple.com/no/ipodtouch/specs.html
Languages
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish
Additional language support for display of song, album, and artist information: Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian
But this discrepancy is probably just a localization error by Apple; also, these international sites don’t mention WiFi in specs. (between Video and Headphones on the U.S. site)
To ALL the whiners bitching about this feature and that no being what YOU think it should be, bla bla bla….
Sit down & STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Show me another device that competes with the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPod etc…
[waiting…..]
didn’t think so… so I repeat…. Sit Down & STFU!
Can we move on now?
MW= “company” As in “don’t like the iPod Touch? Then start your OWN company and make a better device”!