{"id":702,"date":"2009-02-07T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/?p=702"},"modified":"2009-02-07T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T23:24:00","slug":"ipod-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/ipod-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image align-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853340\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853340_37423bda4a_t.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Turned on!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally bit the bullet and got an iPod Touch 16 GB, after months of telling myself I shouldn&#8217;t.  And yes, I&#8217;m thoroughly enjoying my new toy. \ud83d\ude42  So why did I get an iPod Touch when I could have just got an iPhone for the same upfront cost?  A few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t use my cellphone a lot.  In fact, I&#8217;m on a <a href=\"\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/going-mobile\/\">pay-as-you-go plan with Virgin Mobile<\/a> since my cellphone is basically for emergency situations.  I still don&#8217;t like cellphones all that much.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t want to pay the <a href=\"http:\/\/angryrobot.ca\/2008\/06\/28\/iphone-in-canada-the-math-the-outrage\">exorbitant monthly fees that carriers in Canada charge<\/a> to use the iPhone.  Basically, the minimum monthly cost is $60, but this <strong>does not include<\/strong> the &#8220;System Access Fee&#8221; or essentials such as Caller ID, and adding those brings the total to over $80\/month without taxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to turn this into a huge iPhone vs. iPod Touch debate, so let&#8217;s just say I don&#8217;t have the cash for an iPhone subscription at present.  Anyway, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/sets\/43467\/\">few pictures from the unboxing<\/a>.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"image\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853326\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853326_510aa8f7f2_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"iPod Touch 16 GB\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853331\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853331_001d4f076c_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"iPod Touch 16 GB\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853334\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853334_80190e20d5_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"iPod Touch 16 GB\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853339\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853339_z835870778_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"What's included\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853340\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853340_37423bda4a_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Turned on!\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853345\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853345_a414e7310f_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Turned on!\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooomr.com\/photos\/stygiansonic\/6853347\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zooomr.com\/images\/6853347_1a3740c4ed_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Shiny!\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally bit the bullet and got an iPod Touch 16 GB, after months of telling myself I shouldn&#8217;t. And yes, I&#8217;m thoroughly enjoying my new toy. \ud83d\ude42 So why did I get an iPod Touch when I could have just got an iPhone for the same upfront cost? A few reasons: I don&#8217;t use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,55,114,258],"tags":[422,320,319,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}