I’ve got an admission to make. Actually, you’ll have realised already if you’ve been paying attention to some of my screenshots. I don’t own an iPhone. [FX: readers faint with shock]
Actually, I own an iPod Touch. No, it wasn’t that I didn’t want an iPhone, it’s just that, being a phone journalist, I already have about 20 phones and numerous pay-as-you-go SIMs knocking around the office and just couldn’t justify a particular device that mandated an expensive longterm contract. Because, for the purposes of enjoying all the multimedia and application goodness of the iPhone, the much slimmer and cheaper iPod Touch was absolutely perfect. Apart from the few extra iPhone-only apps and slightly different behaviour in Google Maps, the two platforms are identical.
With all that in mind, what can I do about connectivity? More and more applications these days either want to ‘phone home’, to load data from a server or to communicate with others across the Internet. iPhone owners have unlimited EDGE or 3G data in most world markets, but what about us poor iPod Touch relatives?
