Privileged

So last night, Greg Galitzine, Group Editorial Director said to me, "Here's an iPod touch, go at it." Ok, he might not have said it using those words but that's what I heard, considering I was having a mini-party in my head because I've been wanting to get my hands on one for some time now but due to economic reasons and the fact that I'd rather be warm when I go to sleep, the iPod touch was just out of reach for me.

 

My only negative remark so far: I'm not a fan of the onscreen keyboard. In order to test it out, I logged onto my Gmail account and ended up sending only one email out because I became a little frustrated.

 

I only download a few apps to test, one being Urbanspoon, which I saw in an Apple TV commercial. Being pretty indecisive myself, I thought this app would help me out. Boy did it. I showed my father, who is in his 50's and for some reason had a problem with it looking like a slot machine and went to town. With the built-in Wi-Fi, the GPS can find out where you are and find restaurants near you.

 

If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you can lock the price section and have the other two, city and type, spin. To "shake" you could either physically shake the device a bit and it will spin or just press the "Shake" button. When I wanted to do it manually I got wrist whiplash because a gentle shake just didn't cut it.

 

I also downloaded the Flixster Movies application which is has RottenTomatoes.com ratings with all movies, which is a plus because usually RottenTomatoes know what they are talking about.

 

The application gives box office, theater, upcoming, and DVD information. Trailers are available but not for all movies. Reviews and movie details can also be found along with movie websites.

 

In this application, ads can be found at the top of the screen, which I thought was interesting. If you want to know more about what is being advertised simply touch that area and you're taken to the information. Sounds like an article...

 

I began looking for email apps in hopes that the emailing situation could be remedied, by not only giving me a better keyboard but maybe some addition features that I have yet to determine.

 

On a completely different subject, I did try out the keyboard on the BlackBerry Storm and was quite impressed.