The new iPod touch includes a video camera
I need a new mobile phone and the choice has become increasingly perplexing.
In my view, unless you must have an iPhone, you can now pick a smartphone based on the wireless carrier with the best arrangement for your needs. That includes cost, coverage and, of course, product. With the introduction of quality Android phones this year at each of the major carriers, this process has eased significantly.
The iPhone, still, is only at AT&T (that will change within two years, not in January) so if you don’t want AT&T for whatever reason and lust for an iPhone, here’s what you do:
Buy the new iPod touch. It’s always been just like the iPhone, minus the phone, but the new version of the iPod touch includes front-and-rear cameras for video calls, a decent speaker for Internet-based phone calls, and, as David Pogue points out in a review, “using a free app like TextFree, you can send all the text messages you like without paying the phone company anything.”
The iPod touch, now arriving in stores, starts at $229, only $30 more than a $199 iPhone. Of course, that iPhone will cost you close to $100 a month to operate. So the best of both worlds (and the one that reasonably keeps the tech geek satiated) is to buy the iPod touch and choose among a number of really good Android phones at whichever carrier you prefer.
This story was excerpted from a piece I wrote for Appolicous.com. You can read the full story here.
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