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Old 03-20-2008, 02:32 AM
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after some listening, i've come to the conclusion that the Touch, through the dock (where hiss doesn't seem to be present), is head and shoulders better th the previous iPods. it sounds like a $300-400 CD player, with lossless, to my ears.
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Old 03-24-2008, 12:00 PM
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i think the touch and iphone use the same dac? the stock iphone cradle has a mini audio out and its not a bad sound...

of course this is for a phone/ipod but still not a bad sound out of it.
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Old 03-25-2008, 04:21 PM
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Old 03-25-2008, 04:32 PM
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Old 03-25-2008, 04:34 PM
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Oh that's bad dude, you need to send that bad mojo my way, I'll take the hit for you

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Old 03-25-2008, 04:50 PM
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Alas, that is an albatross that I'll have to wear myself, you've got enough with the car and all.
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Old 04-18-2008, 03:31 AM
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what software are you guys using to compress/decode dvds to the iphone/touch pm me please. I am on the road in a few days and could use the movie content on cross county flights
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Old 04-18-2008, 03:37 AM
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Old 04-18-2008, 06:19 AM
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after some listening, i've come to the conclusion that the Touch, through the dock (where hiss doesn't seem to be present), is head and shoulders better th the previous iPods. it sounds like a $300-400 CD player, with lossless, to my ears.
I agree on this. I have an iPod Touch and, after having used most of the iPods out there, I was a bit surprised by it in that it sounded better to me than I'd typically encountered from iPods. Then I go to head-fi and they insist it's one of the worst? lol. It does have a bit of hiss; more than a bit with IEMs, but I haven't found it distracting when actually listening to music and, overall, I'm really happy with it. It is beyond slick as far as gadgets go.

Where does one acquire parts to build a dock, by the way?
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Old 04-21-2008, 12:50 AM
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Old 04-21-2008, 07:41 AM
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there's a free service called yofrog. It's a chat room for iphone/ipod touch users...well you can set up your own rooms. It saves the conversations so you can view all entries. If you're interested, I've set up a Head-Case room....room access is by invitation.


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Old 04-21-2008, 01:54 PM
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there's a free service called yofrog. It's a chat room for iphone/ipod touch users...well you can set up your own rooms. It saves the conversations so you can view all entries. If you're interested, I've set up a Head-Case room....room access is by invitation.


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Old 04-21-2008, 03:13 PM
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Old 04-23-2008, 09:48 PM
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http://wiredforgadgets.com/?p=743
Chapel Hill has a new hotspot program and one of the access points is across from my bus stop. I was having trouble getting access so I googled it and found this link. I just wrote the DNS address in the notes area on my touch for future reference.
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I was trying to cancel my iphone account on the phone today (I get no service at home or work) and my phone died before I could finish talking to the "support" (pfft.) personel. For some reason it doesn't want to charge when connected to USB or wall USB mounts.

Anyway, after asking me why I wanted to quit, I mentioned I get bad reception, and that "I can no longer pay for it". She offered me a $30 per month contract with less features (no mobile to mobile, and something else). I am on a $70 per month plan right now. I verified that the terminatin fee would still apply, since it would necessitate terminating my original contract. So that would be ~ $170.

I am probably going to cancel altogether still, but you guys with phones should pay the termination fee and rejoin under the cheaper plan. Just FYI.
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Anyway, after asking me why I wanted to quit, I mentioned I get bad reception, and that "I can no longer pay for it". She offered me a $30 per month contract with less features (no mobile to mobile, and something else). I am on a $70 per month plan right now. I verified that the terminatin fee would still apply, since it would necessitate terminating my original contract. So that would be ~ $170.
I think they'd get a lot more customers if they offered a lower plan upfront. Heck, I'd think about it if it still offered the web access.

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Old 06-02-2008, 08:55 PM
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except the $30 a month plan would almost definitely not include unlimited data and the 200 txt messages a month that the regular plan has.
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Old 06-02-2008, 09:36 PM
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I believe there was some texting available, but yes, the unlimited data was almost certainly not included. That is actually the best feature of the iphone, as far as I'm concerned. I looked at the data prices for other phones and its insane.

If I can get the blasted thing to charge more, I'll try again tomorrow and get more details on this plan. There was something else she offered, that was $20 a month, iirc, but it offered basically nothing at all.
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Old 06-02-2008, 09:37 PM
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They really ought to offer the lower-priced plans upfront, I don't understand why they don't. Case in point: prepaid.

But yeah, the warning to get the right plan is probably a good one.
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