iPod Touch Rocks… iPhone Sucks!

This battle has been going on since the day Apple launched iPhone. iPod Touch came into the market a bit later. And it seemed like Touch is the lite version of the full-blown iPhone. It was always dicey whether to go for iPhone, which initially seems like a sensible investment as it has everything that iPod Touch has and it also has something more to offer. But again it comes to you at a price.

When I was planning to buy one of these devices, I did a preliminary research on the two products. On the face of it, iPod Touch has two major features missing as compared to iPhone – a phone and a camera. Secondly in India, iPhone is not officially available. In the gray market, you either get an unlocked/modded US made phone… or a Europe-made pre-unlocked phone. Any which ways, you got to shell out around 25-28k and you don’t get a warranty when you buy an iPhone in India. On the other hand an 8GB iPod Touch costs 12.5k and comes with a 1 year warranty. And I went in for an iPod Touch.

It’s been almost 3 weeks since I bought my iPod and I’m very satisfied with it. And then I read this month’s PC World and it had an article – 10 Things iHate About the iPhone. So I thought I will express my pleasure in taking the right decision by going for the iPod Touch!

1. Single Carrier: The legal version of iPhone works only with one carrier – AT&T in the US and when it comes to India, it will be Vodafone
2. Not-so-good Camera: iPhone has a 2MP camera which is not really good enough. A mid-range Sony Ericsson phone has a better camera than an iPhone.
3. 3.5mm Headphone Port Missing: The headphone jack is not like the traditional port than iPods have.
4. On-Screen Keypad: The keypad is supposed to be a state-of-the-art onscreen keypad. But state-of-the-art stuff means it is experimental ;) In short, not satisfactory!
5. Toothless Bluetooth: Tell me why do you use Bluetooth? To transfer files with other phones, to transfer files from PC, and in rare cases use it with the PC Suite. But the Bluetooth with iPhone can be used only for calls. This means that your Bluetooth headset would work, but apart from that nothing else would work. Y.U.C.K!!!
6. Non-Removable Battery: This problem has been prevailing with iPod since its first release. And it still continues even with iPhone!
7. No MMS: Howzzat? No MMS! Even an ordinary 5K Nokia mobile has MMS capability. And its missing in iPhone.
8. No FM: Apple filled in so much into iPhone seemed to have missed the good ol’ radio. FM is an integral part of every phone of today’s generation. And iPhone lacks it.
9. Un-user-friendly Navigation: Every time you want to swap between applications, you gotta press that HOME button. What the hell! You have a touch-screen keypad but there is no link on the screen for going back HOME!
10. Non-Multi-Tasking Safari: If you are browsing and you decide to change the music that’s playing in the background, you will lose the webpage you were in when you come back to Safari after changing the music. Safari needs full focus when in use.

And thus I feel that I took the right decision of buying an iPod Touch rather than buying the iPhone!