![]() ![]() We also found that the orientation sensor would occasionally mis-read our intentions if we tried to use the audio controls while walking: sometimes loading the landscape-only Cover Flow unprompted, and stubbornly sitting there until we returned to the home page and went back to the music application. The lack of physical buttons means you have to take it out of your pocket to change tracks or the volume, which isn’t as much of a problem on the train as it is on a treadmill. It’s also annoying that free podcasts are blocked.Īctually using the touch as a music player is occasionally troublesome as well. Although iTunes allows you to buy videos with its desktop client, there’s no way to access this through the touch. In its present version the service is frustrating, though. And uniquely, the touch automatically grabs your iTunes account details from your PC, allowing you to buy songs over a WiFi network. Like the classic and nano, the touch includes Apple’s Cover Flow, a handy way of browsing albums by cover. If someone suggests a meeting to you while you’re away from your PC, there’s no way of getting the information into the touch. The Contacts application is reasonably useful, but the calendar is read-only. Both take the relevant details from iTunes, which in turn grabs information from a third party application such as Outlook. The calendar and contact features are useful, but fail to set any particularly striking precedents. The touch is hamstrung with 802.11b/g only. The only problem is the touch’s connection options: the iPhone might only have a lowly EDGE receiver built in, but at least it’s enough for some data transfer on the move. ![]() ![]() The orientation sensor is handy, too – hold the touch landscape and the screen pivots (it’s animated, of course) to keep the text upright. ![]() With a bit of practice, you’ll be tapping out a couple of lines a minute, and we had no problem reaching the same kinds of speed on the iPod as you could expect from a Blackberry. Practically speaking, it’s easy to get up to speed on the keyboard. ![]()
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