steve szmidt :
>> They also make available a skin for the Touch, and others. It's about
$25, and in my view, should be applied to your device before you get a
chance to scratch it. That would retain the brand new look.
....
I have that skin on my iPhone and hate it. Yes, I'm sure it offers
protection, but there are negatives. The film has a higher coefficient of
friction, so it is 'stickier' than the glass. Your finger no longer glides
smoothly (actually feels somewhat sticky), and that is a real annoyance - to
the point that I'm considering removing it, wasting my $25. And it lowers
the clarity of the screen, so photos don't look nearly as good. It also
picks up more glare.
Frankly, my experience with my iPod was it would break every 1 to 2 years
and Apple would replace it with a refurb, so when the battery goes (or
something else) I may end up with new glass anyway.
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of steve szmidt
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:27 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] iPod compatibility
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Eben King wrote:
> OK, if I accept the reduced battery life and Jailbreak it, (1) can I load
> apps from Linux, and (2) is there an appointments scheduler, turning it
> into a hopped-up PDA?
Another note is that all applications you run on it needs to be compiled for
it, which the 'lot of applications' I referred to are. In this case by the
people with the jailbreak tool.
In other words, you cannot just scp (secure file copy) an application from
your computer and run it under the Touch as they are entirely different
platforms.
I never thought of turning off sshd (until after I got it factory restored)
to
see if that resolved the battery life. By all accounts most people did not
complain about battery life. I only saw one article where I guy said the
battery life was killed by the jailbreak.
The unique things with it is mostly the compact size and two finger zoom.
The
zoom is patented and not available on any other device. Depending on your
need the G2 from Google is a very nice option. Being open source based there
will be a ton of other software coming out for it. My main consideration are
the arms that holds the display in place and rotates it out, to reveal the
keyboard. It seems a bit flimsy, but a friend who's travelled with it has
nothing but good things to say. He chose it easily over the new Blackberry
and the iPhone.
Oh, there is a company that developed a thin film for protecting the rotor
blades on choppers from stones that get whipped into them, for the military.
They also make available a skin for the Touch, and others. It's about $25,
and in my view, should be applied to your device before you get a chance to
scratch it. That would retain the brand new look.
--Steve Szmidt
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