What practical differences are there between the 8Gb and 32Gb versions of the most recent (4th generation) iPod Touch?
Price-wise it seems to be about £50 (164/218), which seems like quite a lot. But apart from being able to store a lot more songs, are there things the 32Gb can do that the 8Gb can't?
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>> What practical differences are there between the 8Gb and 32Gb versions of the most recent
>> (4th generation) iPod Touch?
None
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>> Price-wise it seems to be about £50 (164/218), which seems like quite a lot.
Its not a lot. You are getting 4 times as much storage.
>> apart from being able to store a lot more songs, are there things the 32Gb
>> can do that the 8Gb can't?
No
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I'd go for the 32Gb.
Based on Apple's estimates, I thought my 16Gb nano would have more than enough space for my CD collection.
As it's turned out, I have very little headroom.
It may be I made a balls of the calculation, but I think Apple's capacity estimate was optimistic.
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8 Gig's only enough as store maybe 1 film, a couple of tv episodes, a few playlists of music, one or 2 audiobooks, some photos, some apps.
Sounds fine, except you'll burn through that in under a week easily, it's a total drag having to hook it up to the pc / laptop more than once a week.
£50 for a few years of convenience? Worth every penny in my book! My 3GS is 16Gb but it's a bit of a squeeze at times and a pain for holidays. IMO :)
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Yes, go for the 32 GB. I have an old 20 GB iPod and had to upgrade to a 32 GB one. Bear in mind that you'll get much better sound quality if you use a higher bit rate compression, at least 196kbps in my opinion, which will mean bigger files, and more disk space used.
The Apple store sometimes does returns and specials, which are a bit cheaper than normal.
Oh, and ditch the rubbish earphones and get some decent ones, ~£30 will give you much better sound quality. Juat be careful where you buy as there are loads of Chinese made fakes that look almost identical to the real thing.
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>> Oh, and ditch the rubbish earphones and get some decent ones, ~£30 will give you
>> much better sound quality. Juat be careful where you buy as there are loads of
>> Chinese made fakes that look almost identical to the real thing.
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Top tip... £11 JVC "Air Cushion". I got these after multiple recommendations when i lost my Shure's. The Shure's are 1 step down from in-ear monitors, the JVCs are 80% as good as the Shures at a tenth of the price.
Bargain if you ask me. Very very good.
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Thanks for the advice everyone.
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I went for a pair of foldable Sennheiser phones - well worth the money.
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Who uses the phones you stuff deep in your ear canal? Are they any good?
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>> Who uses the phones you stuff deep in your ear canal? Are they any good?
I've tried quite a few Sennheisers in the ~£30 bracket. I had a CX500, which was awful. There was a lot of cable noise, such that whenever the cable moved, it sounded like rolling thunder. So so sound quality too. The problem with many if not most in-ear phones is the lack of bass. Unfortunately most of the others I have tried have too much bass, it's the fashion these days. I've bought 3 or 4 so called sports headphones for running, and all turned out unsuitable for exercise. I think it is marketing nonsense.
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Would that be the PX100? The old version is the best I've tried in the ~£30 range. The new one, PX100-II is not as good IMO. The best I've used for an iPod is the AudioTechnica EC-7, very very good, but there are a lot of cosmetically very convincing fakes about.
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iPod Touch (4th gen) 8 vs 32Gb - Zero
